Did you see our convo w @antihero_kate ?
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Replying to @antihero_kate @cognitivicta and
However, if I walked into a man's bedroom and saw anything resembling this I'd be like, "OK, so you're definitely married or gay or both."
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Nah. A well-dressed man is ALWAYS appreciated. :)
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Huh. I think there's been a shift in the last fifteen years or so. Before "well-dressed" was coded gay but now I think it's just "high status" (usually, for some definition of "well-dressed"), and gay fashion has become a separate sphere entirely.
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Ah, I’ve been too busy over the past 15 years to notice!
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Replying to @Meaningness @eigenrobot and
Hmm, I wonder if this shift is due to the subcultural mode atomizing right around 15 years ago. But probably that’s far-fetched
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or maybe not! say: before atomization: clothes signaled subcultural affiliation after: fashion returns to its old role as a reliable signal of some kind of systematic social status (?)
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Replying to @eigenrobot @Meaningness and
Alternate hypothesis: us queers had enough time to play with "well-dressed" that it mutated a fair bit, and now looks similar but not quite right, a changeling fashion wearing the same pieces but unmistakably faerie.
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Ah, splendid, almost exactly the opposite hypothesis! I’m sadly out of touch with gay culture (having moved 15 years ago from the SF Castro to rural Nevada). A vital exception to the rule of subcultural dissolution, because held together with bonds stronger than mere aesthetics?
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