Clothes for Butches

[ysabetwordsmith]

I was delighted to find this article about clothing designers catering to female-bodied people with masculine personalities who choose to wear men's clothing.

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[untonuggan]

Huzzah! Should tell partner. ^_^

Yes...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Tell every butch you know.

[cadenzamuse]

Butch friend and I are totally going to go to the Tomboy Tailors store when I visit her in SF. (And when I have a chance to email former next-door neighbor, I'll suggest she pass it on to her partner.)

SO LOVELY! SO HANDSOME! EEEE!

Wow!

[ysabetwordsmith]

How exciting. I hope you have fun there.

[ravan]

Tomboy Tailors will be a guilty pleasure for me, I can tell. Do you know how hard it is to find plus size vests and jackets with boob room that aren't all femmy and "single season"? My jacket collection got eaten by moths at my (newish) house, which means a 20 year collection of classic wool suit jackets that were fairly butch is now full of holes.

Well...

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>Do you know how hard it is to find plus size vests and jackets with boob room that aren't all femmy and "single season"?<<

I imagine it's as hard as finding clothes to fit a petite-height body with venusian curvature. Particularly when I favor clothes that straighten out the silhouette. By the time I can fit my chest or hips into something, the cuffs are usually hanging off my fingertips or toes.

[catsittingstill]

I wonder if they'd be able to come up with clothes for me? My problem is the combination of my curves and my height.

I like a whole range of masculine to feminne clothing but there's very little made for a womanly body at 6 foot 1.

Hmm...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Well, they're all tailors, so it should work.

On the flip side: there are a number of suppliers catering to male-bodied people who dress as women, including crossdressers and MTFs. Those clothes and accessories are styled for large, tall bodies and accommodate curves. Some is intended as recreational wear, but some is ordinary business or casual wear.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Very cool! I've known many a woman who looked awesome in a well-tailored suit, but finding someone to *actually do the tailoring*... well, perhaps that's getting a bit easier, thanks Be. Bespoke clothing is nearly a lost art in America, and I suspect dying on Saville Row as well... I should like to see it make a renaissance...

After all, Andrew Johnson, who ended up in my hometown after the unpleasantness that was his presidency, was a tailor, both before and after... it is an honourable profession. (His shop has been preserved by the Park Service, along with the house a block away.)

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

>>I've known many a woman who looked awesome in a well-tailored suit,<<

Agreed. I like suits for certain business situations, and I strongly prefer trousers to skirts.

>> but finding someone to *actually do the tailoring*... well, perhaps that's getting a bit easier, thanks Be. Bespoke clothing is nearly a lost art in America, and I suspect dying on Saville Row as well... I should like to see it make a renaissance... <<

Agreed. "Needlework" in my Fledgling Grace series deals with this issue, although it hasn't been sponsored yet.

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[thnidu.livejournal.com]

EDIT: ___has sponsored my Fledgling Grace poem "Needlework."
Was there a name and journal link in there? – Wanna read it once I've got must-do's done.

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[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

That's LJ butchering posts again. It seems to be deleting links, usernames, and letters or words in the vicinity of links or usernames.