A Wall Canvas With A Message

[susan jackson]

I was looking around the charity (thrift) shops this morning, and I found a wall canvas that was so appropriate, I could resist getting it

Here is a special message for my sisters


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[Stephanie47]

I totally agree. I constantly read of we ladies drawn to bright colors and pretty patterns rather than the boring offerings in male attire. I love floral patterns on dresses over any other patterns. Even in male attire when I was still working in a professional office setting my choice of dress shirts was color and expressive ties. The one boring white dress shirt that hung in the back of the closet had turned yellow.

[Sometimes Steffi]

I still remember when I walked into Lulumon and asked the SA to look at yoga pants. She took me to the men's section where to color choices were black, gray and navy. I told her that I was looking for something a little more colorful. She said if I don't mind getting woman's yoga pants, that they had more colors to choose from. She took me to the women's section, and all the colors of the rainbow opened up.

It was like "The Wizard of Oz" when Dorothy goes from Kansas (in black and white) to Oz (in technicolor). She said, "Toto. I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."

[NancySue]

No truer words ever spoken. Amen. I always enjoy looking at what the mannequin?s are wearing, thinking?ummmm. Fun

[Traci H]

Like Stephanie, I love the colors and styles woman seem to have at their disposal. Similarly when I worked in the office, I had one white dress shirt that just gathered dust in my closet. I wore purple, pink and yellow shirts most of the time. Brightly colored ties too. It was about the best I could do within the acceptable limits of the culture around me. Now I?m drawn to the fabrics, necklines, colors and styles on the other side of the aisle. Life is way too short for boring clothes! Wonder what my wife would think if I hung up a sign like that? Hmmm.

[CynthiaD]

I looked on Amazon and they have lots of stuff with this phrase. Gonna get one!

My male clothing is all black or dark gray. My female clothing is every color of the rainbow.

[DianeT]

Men's wear nowadays comes in all kinds of bright colors. This is the Tee I am wearing tonight. Bright pink. I have also a pink, yellow and turquoise shirts, trousers of all colors, etc. You are just looking the other way because it's your fantasy.

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[char GG]

Thank you, Diane. So many people either don't look, or don't realize there is a huge variety of colors and shape of menswear.

[BLUE ORCHID]

Hi Susan :hugs:, Tht is so true, >Orchid**O:daydreaming:O**

[Traci H]

You GGs talk big, but the reality is different. Sure you can find some bright colored menswear if you search. But acceptance by society is different. My wife does not want me wearing a magenta tee shirt I bought. It?s a man?s but she thought it was too femmy. And she doesn?t want me wearing any soft rayon shirts, those are reserved for woman. Lots of barriers out there for guys as to acceptability in some social circles. I bought a man?s small bag as well. Just a brown canvas simple thing. That was not something she liked at all. Probably a bit of NIMBY.

[alwayshave]

Susan, Absolutely true. I love the art.

[Sometimes Steffi]

Like Stephanie, I love the colors and styles woman seem to have at their disposal. Similarly when I worked in the office, I had one white dress shirt that just gathered dust in my closet. I wore purple, pink and yellow shirts most of the time. Brightly colored ties too. It was about the best I could do within the acceptable limits of the culture around me.

I've never owned or worn a white shirt, as far back as I can remember. All through High School, gentlemen were required to wear (dress) shirts, ties and jackets. It was a public school, but nobody protested. I always wore colored shirts throughout high school, and through my almost 50-year professional career. That doesn't mean that they were pink, although I had a few pink thrown in, but they were all other colors including reds, blues, lavenders and purples. They weren't hard to find, even in mainstream department stores like Macy's.

[bridget thronton]

Great wall having - words to live by

[SuzyZahn]

OMG,,,that doesnt even begin to start on the feel and look of such clothing! Sad to say,? maybe maybe not? Most men will never know or understand that.

[Cheryl T]

1000% Agree and I try every day to follow that rule.

[OrdinaryAverageGuy]

I keep seeing over and over again lately the argument that "men's clothes are boring" vs "there are men's clothes in colors, with sequins, etc." You're missing the point. I don't want to wear sequins, I don't want to wear a men's pink shirt (yes I have a couple). I want to wear something with spaghetti straps, I want to wear a skirt, I want to wear a soft t-shirt with half sleeves, I want to wear a dress, I want to wear a tank top with a scoop neckline, I want to wear shorts as short as what we wore in the 70's and early 80's. You can't find those things in the men's section, and a man wearing those things to a sports bar will be ridiculed. Even with t-shirts nearly all of my men's shirts are rougher material than nearly all of my women's shirts. Even my pink men's shirts feel like men's shirts, but my pink women's shirts are soft and comfy, and look better IMO with the shorter short sleeves.
Just my $.02, no doubt someone will tell me I'm wrong.

[Staci]

Wow. That says it all. Guy clothes are so boring. The choices in women’s clothing are unbelievable.

[JesseVF]

Ordinary - agree totally. No desire to wear more colorful men?s clothing. I?ve even been getting rid of some of the more plain fem clothes I had purchased over the past couple years which I thought I had wanted. I need the more feminine look and feel - although mostly private for me.

[chrissy111]

Way back I wore a pink tux to a formal dance and it was from the mens department, of course I wore pink matching lingerie underneath.

[DianeT]

I keep seeing over and over again lately the argument that "men's clothes are boring" vs "there are men's clothes in colors, with sequins, etc." You're missing the point. I don't want to wear sequins, I don't want to wear a men's pink shirt (yes I have a couple). I want to wear something with spaghetti straps, I want to wear a skirt, I want to wear a soft t-shirt with half sleeves, I want to wear a dress, I want to wear a tank top with a scoop neckline, I want to wear shorts as short as what we wore in the 70's and early 80's. You can't find those things in the men's section, and a man wearing those things to a sports bar will be ridiculed. Even with t-shirts nearly all of my men's shirts are rougher material than nearly all of my women's shirts. Even my pink men's shirts feel like men's shirts, but my pink women's shirts are soft and comfy, and look better IMO with the shorter short sleeves.
Just my $.02, no doubt someone will tell me I'm wrong.
And you're missing mine, since I was only answering about the supposedly boring colors of the men's department. Rest assured that the fact that CDers tend to want to wear clothing from the women's aisle didn't escape the majority of us.