Vintage girls in vintage boy clothes?

[RetroModelSari]

Well it´s true that not everyone can wear this look, but there is not such a thing like a look that fits everyone eventhough people would be happier if they can wear everything they want and look fabulous in it

 

[Naama]

I want pictures Lady Day!!!

So, I've actually always rather on the -> girl dress like a girl, side of life, but a few days ago I tried it myself, I was just in a Marlene kind of mood well, ok, I was wearing guys pants but combined it with a lace top, a long pearl neklace and pumps, so to make sure to be still very feminine.

Naama

 

[Feraud]

Most gals dressing like guys come off looking like..
http://www.bowlingmembership.com/xpress/images/DT-PaulaPoundstone.jpg
[huh]

 

[Lady Day]

I want pictures Lady Day!!!

So, I've actually always rather on the -> girl dress like a girl, side of life, but a few days ago I tried it myself, I was just in a Marlene kind of mood well, ok, I was wearing guys pants but combined it with a lace top, a long pearl neklace and pumps, so to make sure to be still very feminine.

Naama

Oh no! Me in front of a camera? lol
Ill try to get some later on.
As far as the girl looking like a dude, Im not just referring to girls wearing mens clothes, more of dude tailored, with those key accents of dude attire: hat, tie, etc.

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[marquise]

... Oh God. In highschool, I used to be completely & utterly obsessed with early-century men's clothing-- a phase that lasted about two years. I literally did not wear a skirt or dress for a year or so-- absolutely bizzare, as I only own two pairs of pants now (sailor-pants & a Hepburnish style).

I wore lots of (female-tailored) 1920s-style Oxford-Cambridge-esque items, almost totally inspired by films like Chariots of Fire and Brideshead Revisited; motoring garb, and Leyendecker illustrations.
My daily "uniform" consisted of tweed or cord blazers, sweaters or little ladies' waistcoats (which is now an hyper-visible hipster trend, but worn with ugly t-shirts); striped ties, schoolboy scarves (knit by myself, & very, very long!)-- with tailored women's pants or capris and argyle stockings, to look like knickers. And lots of t-straps and heels.

... All very strange; but people seemed to like it.

An old photo from those days, posing hammy--:

... & Yes, I did (and still do!) smoke a pipe occasionally, to cement the effect. lol

 

[K by the bay]

But fedoras ARE ladies' hats

Remember that the fedora hat was first worn by Fedora. So all those hard boiled detectives are trying to look tough in their ladies' hats. They're cute though.

 

[herringbonekid]

Marquise, that look sounds charming.
affected, but charming.

 

[marquise]

Yes; it certainly was affected! Which is why I don't do it much anymore. lol

 

[herringbonekid]

affected or not i can't deny it... there is something strangely sexy about pretty girls in mannish clothing.

 

[Naama]

An old photo from those days, posing hammy--:

Wow, you look pretty cool in this picture, if just more guys would dress that way

Naama

 

[Haversack]

Marlene Dietrich has already been mentioned. Another to take a look at is Veroica Lake as The Girl in Preston Sturges' _Sullivan's Travels_. I don't have a reference to a photo handy, but when she and Joel McRae are bindlestiffing it she is wearing well-worn boys' clothes with a newsboy cap. Not cute?

Haversack.