Hi Sheila,Originally Posted by Sheila
Yes your right you can wear what you like just so long as you dont mind the consequences that may well come with it. Recently a work colleague found out that my fella dresses. Funnily enough she was in charge of diversity and equal opps when she worked for the council. Even more strangely enough she doesn't have much to say to me nowadays. In some places you can actually lose your job for it, although they dress it up as something else. I have been very surprised at just how narrow minded some employers have been about CDs and how ignorant they are of the CD community. There are still people out there that think if a man wants to wear womens clothes then he is a danger to certain groups of society, namely children. As I work in the childcare industry as a Development Officer I wouldn't like to take the chance that my employers wouldn't pass judgement.
I think one thing we are slightly overlooking in this thread though is the fact that when a women dresses in what has been traditionally classed as mens clothes she is often doing so for practical reasons or its a fashion statement, she isn't actually giving out the message to society that she wants to look like a man.
Take care
Bev
