I wanted to compare stereotypical clothing for males and females from the past to now, so I spoke with my grandma about this subject. My grandma said that back in the day when you could see a double movie at the theater for a nickel, girls were only allowed to wear skirts, they were by no means be allowed to wear pants. Women also in that time were only wearing makeup, not males. The other major fashion thing that was separated by the sexes was hair length. When my grandma was younger, girls had long hair and guys had short hair. There were no exceptions. Comparing that to now females generally wear skirts if they are dressing up, and for the most part girls wear blue jeans just like the guys. Shorts were a “no no” back then too. The whole male and female separation from clothing and fashion has become very skewed over the past few years. Usually females only wear make up, but this is not the case anymore. If you walk into a high school now a days and just look for five minutes there are males wearing black lipstick with long hair and earrings. This fashion statement that is worn by the guys is usually attributed to “gothic” or “emo”.  Another main skewing of the male/female fashion line that there has been for a while, is jeans. When females wear jeans they are always tight fit, and male style jeans are always loose and baggy. In the past several years some males have been wearing tight “girl” style pants. In high school this was much more noticeable than in college, there is the crowd of guys that has long black hair with earrings in both ears (usually attributed to females) and wears the tight pants. This is a newer created group of people classified as the “Emo” kids. This is a type of music that has screaming and complaining about how sad they are and how bad their life is. I feel that if that genre of music had never surfaced, which was brought forth by the media, this group of people wouldn’t be around. It isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it is just showing how different times are, and how the lines between males and females have become skewed.

Chris Hawkins