It was probably somewhere around the seventies when the term ‘unisex clothing’ was invented by clothing manufacturers. After a short period of mild interest, they disappeared from the shelves. Men just weren’t interested and women became interested in wearing men’s clothes.
Men’s styles and fashions did change. Men have a much wider range of options available to them than they used to. A man can have shoulder length hair and still be a macho man and he doesn’t have to stick with a conservative suit anymore. Men even choose to pierce one or both or their ears. As long as they’re wearing stud earrings, they can get away with it, but a feminine looking pair of rhodium earrings won’t do anything for their masculine image.
Women, on the other hand, can wear whatever they feel like wearing. A woman might even choose to wear a bulky men’s sports watch and it might look sexy on her. There’s nothing sexy about a dainty watch on a man, though.
Men today can wear earrings, necklaces and bracelets. What they can’t wear, though, is a jewelry set. If a man is wearing earrings, they should either look like pirate’s earrings or something his girlfriend picked out for him. If he’s wearing a necklace, it should be something he found when he was traveling or have religious or other significance for him. It should never be part of a set just because it matches. Only women can wear jewelry sets simply because they match.
Across the board, you can find examples of how men’s fashion on women can actually enhance their femininity while women’s apparel and accessories simply feminize a man. If that’s what he wants, no problem, but if his goal is to accentuate the macho man in him, women’s stuff just isn’t going to do it for him.
Sweatshirts are basically just sweatshirts, whether they’re made for men or for women. Nonetheless, there is something incredibly sexy about a woman in a man’s sweatshirt, but girls sweatshirts on men are unheard of. You can’t even picture it in your mind.
Women wear men’s jeans. True, they look even better if they’re tailored for women, but basically they are jeans, nonetheless. All the top clothing designers in the world could put their heads together and still not be able to design a skirt that would be acceptable to a man.
There is no adequate answer for why it is so. It just is. Women can get away with wearing men’s things and even make them looking devastatingly alluring. The opposite just doesn’t work. The closest thing we have to unisex clothes that work is drawstring yoga pants and tee shirts. Other than that, guys, stick with the men’s department in your local store!
