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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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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Replying to @AmbrosialArts @eigenrobot and
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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Replying to @Meaningness @eigenrobot and
I mean yeah, if the straights keep trying to ape queer fashion we're gonna either keep getting weirder or turn everyone gay, that's just how it's gonna be. I've noticed e.g. haircuts that were once distinctively gay being done by straight girls, even boys in the past few years.
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This has been a pattern for approximately ever, right? True all my life as far as I can remember. But also in e.g. Edwardian England (Oscar Wilde)
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Replying to @Meaningness @AmbrosialArts and
Yes. Camp usually becomes fashion.
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