If There Were No Clothing Differences?

[Guest Emily H]

Hey all, I'm just wondering..what do you think we would do...instead of crossdressing...if there were no clothing distinctions between men and women?

What if everybody wore the same style, the same colors. Did their hair the same way...

what would we do then?

I really..don't know.

~Andrea

[Carolyn Marie]

I think we would be happy...and bored.

Then we would find something else to give us the same level of pleasure.

Carolyn Marie

[Guest NatalieRene]

There is more to being female then how we dress or wear our hair like hobbies. Lets face it if I told my guy friends that I like to knit and cross stitch I would be laughed out of the room. I think it's relaxing and I like to make things. I don't like the "manly" go grab a hammer and bang some wood together. I can appreciate the end result in the furniture but it's not me.

Although I doubt unless there was no gender at all this would ever happen because in the end it is all about attracting a mate.

[Guest ChloëC]

Now this is a very interesting topic because I've often wondered about our dressing habits. For many species, the male is the one all decked out (birds for example, but there are lots of others) while the female is rather drab. In humans, for the past several generations, or maybe for thousands of years, we've done it the reverse. I've always wondered about that.

But there are also many groups of people - cliques, gangs, whatever you want to call it - that being a part of means you have to wear their 'uniform'. And it is just that. The goth groups all have to wear black, dark makeup, straight dark hair. That's a uniform. Rappers have their uniforms. Preppies, jocks, nerds, all have their uniforms. If you actually wear something different from all of those groups, you're really shunned as being totally a geek or an outsider, rather than held up as an example of being an individual, which I thought was what we all are.

Certain jobs have their uniforms - and I mean way beyond being a janitor or plumber or something like that. Lawyers, accountants, wall street types. Hey, even Hollywood stars have their uniforms.

So, basically, if we want to 'belong', we already do wear the uniform of the group we want to or already belong to which means we're wearing similar colors, have our hair styled a certain way, all within certain parameters.

And it gets worse with age. Regardless of who we are, we are all expected to wear age specific 'uniforms'. For example, 60+ year olds shouldn't really wear mini's. I know, some of you are already saying 'yuch!', but that's the point. We dress already alike for the group we're in or want to be in.

Is that the way it should be?

[Guest Rebecca Quentin]

I honestly don't think complete uniformity of dress would ever be a possibility. As humans, I think most of us have an innate desire to express our individualism. Whether that creativity be in terms of science, art or clothing.

[Guest mia 1]

The milatary. Try the milatary..everyone dresses the same and every one has the same hair style..but after awhile.....you notice differences....people are adaptable and find ways to differentiate....we crossgenders would/will find a way......

[Guest Zenda]

Kia Ora,

OK I'm having one of my weird moment here...

I'm coming from the angle of "what is a 'crossdresser'?"...

There would be no 'cross' dressers [in the sense of those who do it for relaxation purposes]...You would [as Mia likes to call it] be cross-genders which is more to do with one behaviour/mannerism=trans-gender...After all if it's only about items of clothing then it becomes something of a fetish[and I don't just mean of a sexual nature]...

Ask yourselves this question "When is a fetish[A form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body] not a fetish[Excessive or irrational devotion to some activity] ???" then you will find the answer to your question...

Metta Jendar

[Guest mia 1]

not a fetish[Excessive or irrational devotion to some activity] ???" then you will find the answer to your question...

Metta Jendar

Very interesting. I think the answer is "LIFE CHOICE."

If you use the article of clothing for immediate gratification and discard the article after that "moment" it could possiblybe a fetish..If the article is a means to acheive a goal, that is a life style need...then it is the key to the gate......and is part of your being...and essence....

[Guest rachael1]

Very interesting.

I guess there are many different types of Transgendered who label themselves crossdressers.

I think those that just like to wear specific items of womens clothes would find other outlets and the ones who become women even if only for short periods would still find a way to express their femininity. I can think of a few...

Let's see; jewellery, makeup (you never mentioned makeup Andrea - so I'm including it here), mannerisms, thought processes, hobbies, emotions, OMG, I'll leave it at that before I get too carried away.

Rachael