Anonymous #2 4w

It was. Even Rocky and Apollo Creed wore crop tops. In the 80s, nobody wondered if most incredibly feminine-presenting figures like rockstars were gay or straight. Like you had to be David Bowie levels of exotic to get the critics asking questions. This was peak masculinity right here. Everyone knew he fucked

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Anonymous #1 4w

At celebrity levels like that yes. People wore flashy clothes to show off. The average everyday person didn’t wear stuff like that and find it masculine. My dad specifically styled his hair like Freddy Mercury, but his didn’t go around wearing the same clothes that Freddy did on stage. The idea of ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’ drastically changed in the 20s and 30s and hasn’t changed much since. There were still people who thought David Bowie dressed like a girl.

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Anonymous #2 4w

They didn’t care bc people like the music. Things have changed bc people care less about the actual work and more about political ideologies.

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Anonymous #2 4w

You are absolutely right that they didn’t care who was gay or straight bc it didn’t matter. Who you slept with stayed in the bedroom for the most part. Regan’s push for “AIDs Awareness” did start to draw a political line between it all. The general public became scared of a disease and subsequently gay people as a whole. They believed just being near one could cause them to contract the disease. This didn’t change how people dressed, it just cause a political divide.

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Anonymous evil_sheep 4w

Fashion is contingent on gender norms…wearing this was seen as acceptable because it fit the times idea of masculinity

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Anonymous OP 4w

Doesn’t fashion happen first followed by gender norms? Gotta have the egg before the chicken.

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Anonymous evil_sheep 4w

fashion and gender inform eachother imo. it's not one way or the other. kinda like the MTV effect

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