Gendered Clothing
“Distinguishing Gender Differences Between Men and Women”
Women and the clothes they wear have consequences of how they are viewed and accepted in society. Feminine clothing distinguishes gender differences amongst men and women. Ultimately gendering based on clothing is a form of stratification that creates bias assumptions. Assumptions that would follow such labeling would be to say that “only women wear pink” or “wearing purple is feminine”. This is only one form in which women’s bodies are regulated in terms of clothing and “stylized practices”. There are many more such as gender bending and devaluing women.
Women are taught at an early age what is appropriate for them to wear and not to wear; the same goes for men as well to ensure proper conformity. Society values and conception of what is masculine and feminine plays a major role in determining what’s gender appropriate for both men and women. In the same sense, men and women, throughout life, continue these misguided assimilations of gender roles. What most people don’t realize is that clothing plays great dividends in how women and men’s bodies are regulated, which undeniably exaggerates gender differences between the two sexes. The subtle governing of associating women and men clothing starts at an early age and, for children, helps to form their identities (Cerny, Catherine, Quilted Apparel and Gender Identity). Such forming of identity amongst young children, sometimes leads them into role confusion and an identity crisis. At an age where a child is trying to figure out who they are, the unbeknownst forcing of gendered clothing creates a paradigm in which the child may feel as if they must coherently follow, or face ridiculing if they do not.
The academic sources used were beneficial to the topic of women’s bodies begin regulated through feminine clothing and other “stylized practices” because they all discussed gendering through clothing and how that creates a dichotomy between men
Women and the clothes they wear have consequences of how they are viewed and accepted in society. Feminine clothing distinguishes gender differences amongst men and women. Ultimately gendering based on clothing is a form of stratification that creates bias assumptions. Assumptions that would follow such labeling would be to say that “only women wear pink” or “wearing purple is feminine”. This is only one form in which women’s bodies are regulated in terms of clothing and “stylized practices”. There are many more such as gender bending and devaluing women.
Women are taught at an early age what is appropriate for them to wear and not to wear; the same goes for men as well to ensure proper conformity. Society values and conception of what is masculine and feminine plays a major role in determining what’s gender appropriate for both men and women. In the same sense, men and women, throughout life, continue these misguided assimilations of gender roles. What most people don’t realize is that clothing plays great dividends in how women and men’s bodies are regulated, which undeniably exaggerates gender differences between the two sexes. The subtle governing of associating women and men clothing starts at an early age and, for children, helps to form their identities (Cerny, Catherine, Quilted Apparel and Gender Identity). Such forming of identity amongst young children, sometimes leads them into role confusion and an identity crisis. At an age where a child is trying to figure out who they are, the unbeknownst forcing of gendered clothing creates a paradigm in which the child may feel as if they must coherently follow, or face ridiculing if they do not.
The academic sources used were beneficial to the topic of women’s bodies begin regulated through feminine clothing and other “stylized practices” because they all discussed gendering through clothing and how that creates a dichotomy between men