Why are men’s clothing never cute or colourful unlike women’s? (Kind of rant)
Hiya.
I’m 16M and wouldn’t consider myself feminine or as a femboy, but I do have some ‘feminine’ interests such as Sanrio and Pusheen and I like, though don’t wear, bows and frills and etc.
As I said, I’m not a femboy, but I’ve been searching for the perfect subreddit to put this in for half and hour and I feel like this is where people will be able to properly understand my grievance.
Going into clothing sections at stores, the clothes for women/girls usually have wayyy more colour. Pinks, purples, oranges, blues, greens, browns, reds.. basically every colour of the rainbow in neutral, pastel and neon.
Whereas for the men’s and boys’ sections, the clothes are ALWAYS just black, grey, brown, blue and red. Even when I was 6 I thought this and sometimes opted to wear the girls’ clothes as they had some more personality.
This remains for online shops as well. If there’s pale blue frilly boxers for men, it’s either by an independent handmade brand for £120 or it’s by Temu and will likely rip within 2 wears.
My main grievances of the clothes that I would want to wear from the women’s sections are sweatshirts/hoodies, underwear (sometimes a guy wants to have a Hello Kitty on his butt) and pyjamas.
Not with boxers, but I am aware if I really want to, I can wear women’s pyjamas and hoodies, but I dunno! It’s like the principle… I wish I could wear cute button up pastel coloured pyjamas with animals on them without having to go into the women’s section, or without people giving me strange looks cause ‘why tf is this 16 year old guy buying women’s pyjamas’.
I kind of wish I was a girl, but not in a trans way, just in a way where I could wear ‘girl’ clothes. I understand that clothes don’t have gender and I can wear them, but I can’t wear them how a girl would with barely any judgement or strange looks.