Try this: "If There Were No Clothing Differences?"

Elizabeth · Post by **Elizabeth** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:31 am

Hi girls,

This is one of those hypothetical questions that I find irrelevant because I do not believe there are or ever have been any cultures where there was no distinction between "male" and "female" garb. However, if there were really no such distinction, then we would seek to make our bodies look more like a females with padding, breastforms, wig, etc, that would distinguish us from men.

In the end, our bodies have different shapes and the goal will always be to give the visual clues that will lead people to assume a gender without really scrutinizing it.

Love always,
Elizabeth

Virginia · Post by **Virginia** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:42 pm

If you take the proposed scenario and then the continuum that we exist in or on, some of us would be happy, some unhappy, some confused.

Speaking just for myself, (accessories aside

) Virginia would still be Virginia just as she is now. Clothes don't make the woman, but I still love to dress but to exist in balance for me it isn't necessary. That is my place on the continuum, others will be other places.

Virginia

Jennifer M · Post by **Jennifer M** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 5:31 pm

Both Elizabeth and Virginia have expressed what I have tried too.

Robyn Katie · Post by **Robyn Katie** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 9:09 am

Hi Della,

Great point about the handwriting. Yes, we could dot our I's with hearts, for one thing. And sign our letters "Love and kisses." etc. etc.

And the content of our letters could be made feminine in choice of subject matter and manner of speaking, too. What fun to think of!

And there are so many other "incidental" things that would be avenues for cross-gender expression, which no society however prudish or severe could possibly stamp out.

Robyn Katie