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On TV last night I saw Boy George say "
per WIKIPEDIA -
"Women wear the pants", shirts and ties, men wear skirts, kilts wraps, sarongs and skarves on their head. Men use makeup, body lotions, perfumed after shave, gels and hair spray etc. Women often use no makeup. Do our clothes have "symbolic significance" ? A nudist will allways say that being naked takes away the pretences of clothing - there is nothing to hide. Clothing certainly has huge significance and I think is symbolic of what we are.
The colours of the clothes we wear has changed over time. When i was young I would NEVER have worn a pink shirt - far too "girly" but now I would not hesitate. Years ago women wore lace and frills, now dark pants suits are the norm for business women.
IS BOY GEORGE RIGHT - are we all "in drag" when not nude?
JAMES
We are all born naked and everything we wear is drag"
"Drag in its broadest sense means a costume or outfit that carries symbolic significance, but usually refers to the clothing associated with one gender role when worn by a person of the other gender. Wearers of drag in this sense are divided into drag kings and drag queens, depending on the gender of the clothing adopted. The term originated either in gay or theater slang in the 1870s, where the official long-established theater term for "cross-dressing" on-stage was travesti (French, "cross-dressed," giving rise to "travesty" which took on further connotations as a genre of critical vocabulary). Unlike "threads," "drag" never simply meant "clothes."
Someone wearing drag is said to be "in drag." "Drag queen" appeared in print in 1941. The verb form is to "do drag." A folk etymology whose acronym basis reveals a characteristically late 20th-century bias, would make "drag" an abbreviation of "dressed as girl" in description of male transvestism; the converse, "drab" for "dressed as boy," is unrecorded. Drag is practiced by people of all sexual orientations and gender identities."
Someone wearing drag is said to be "in drag." "Drag queen" appeared in print in 1941. The verb form is to "do drag." A folk etymology whose acronym basis reveals a characteristically late 20th-century bias, would make "drag" an abbreviation of "dressed as girl" in description of male transvestism; the converse, "drab" for "dressed as boy," is unrecorded. Drag is practiced by people of all sexual orientations and gender identities."
The colours of the clothes we wear has changed over time. When i was young I would NEVER have worn a pink shirt - far too "girly" but now I would not hesitate. Years ago women wore lace and frills, now dark pants suits are the norm for business women.
IS BOY GEORGE RIGHT - are we all "in drag" when not nude?
JAMES
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