#female dress code

[haggishlyhagging]

“A skirt, any skirt, has a feminizing mission that goes beyond the drawing of a polite, yet teasing, shade over the female crotch and its functions, and of flattering or draping the rear end and stomach with graceful folds. Expansive, casual body gestures are characterized as immodest and unfeminine when practiced by women, and skirts restrict those large, free movements. One does not stride. One is perpetually reminded to be circumspect when sitting or bending down. Whatever its length, and however wide, the open-endedness of a skirt cannot help but guide the body into a set of conservative poses and smaller gestures, and the traditional feminine accessories that went with a skirt in an earlier era (corset, fan, muff, parasol and shawl) and the shoes and pocket-books of today have always reinforced those restrictions. But of course. Feminine clothing has never been designed to be functional, for that would be a contradiction in terms. Functional clothing is a masculine privilege and practicality is a masculine virtue. To be truly feminine is to accept the handicap of restraint and restriction, and to come to adore it.”

-Susan Brownmiller, Femininity

[mosraev]

Lyrics through the decade 2/10

I've decided to collect all the songs I've made through the last decade and share my favourite snippets with you guys. The pictures for the backgrounds will (as much as possible) be pictures I've taken the same year as the lyrics were written. The full lyrics may or may not be made official someday.

Part 2; 2014

In March 2014 I made my first song and so with the new found interest in songwriting I started experimenting a lot with different themes and moods of songwriting that I've tried to show here.

More info under the line

Stay creative, my fellow foxes 🦊💚

Song 1 (pic 1); Ray of Sunshine

First song I ever wrote with a very simple form of three verses in a row. I had tried to learn an ATL song on guitar yet in my failed attempt to learn the rhytmn I made a melody instead (very hard to sing but fun for what it is)

Featured lyric: Clouds outside are starting to gather

[and] my mind in as terrible weather.

Song 2 (pic 2); Female Dress Code

The second song I ever wrote and the first with a chorus - way more singable than RoS. I call it my 'Not Like Other Girls' song since I through the song describe this one girl I say is the opposite of me and how I don't understand women fashion.

Featured lyric: the best thing you can wear is a smile,

but has been hidden away for a while.

Song 3 (pic3); Instant Camera

A song about longing for a relationship (not autobiografical if I remember correctly). This song is special to me not in its themes but that I played it for the talent show at my high school and won first prize. I spend the money to buy a new guitar.

Featured lyric: As May turned to December,

We took photographs with your old instant camera

((Extended)) are you gonna burn them like orange autumn leaves?

Song 4 (pic4); Aubade

First song written on piano (and I made it a spanish intro because I could). As song about supporting a friend in need. Has some really cute lines in retrospect.

Featured lyric: Mirrorside lies! It reflects what eye sees not heart be.

Your flaws make you unique, and you're beautiful to me.

Song 5 (pic5); Train

An angst song. Written together with a friend that accidentally also came out as trans years later. It is a very angry song full of self dread and hate. Very teenager.

Featured lyric: I'll go down in history as another nobody

starring out in nowhere wasting time.

Song 6 (pic6); Corner

First song that I remember where I didn't make up a character to tell the story from but instead used my own experiences. Although some parts of it is half inspired by Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Feautured lyric: Observer. I'm lost in a world were I don't exist

((Extended)) no wonder why my voice's dismissed.

Song 7 (pic7); Stranger 7-10-8-1

Probably one of my strangest titles (pun intended) this song is about seeing the beauty in people around you and that we cannot know everybody's story. Also it is a cute little love song to all the strangers you might meet on your way.

Featured lyric: I have to say, you look good today.

We haven't met, but anyways

everybody's beautiful in their own way.

Song 8 (pic8); Not All Heroes Wear Capes Mine Plays Guitar

Can you tell that I liked Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco from the sheer length of this title x'D? This was a song made and dedicated to one of my then favourite musician, Jack Barakat from All Time Low which is funny when I read it now since a few bits of the lyrics can be used to describe one of my favourite musicians today (Jere Pöyhönen aka Käärijä)

Featured lyric: He's a ticking time bomb filled with bad jokes and contagious joy

Honorable mention:

Flower bud, he trives on the stage tonight.

[cherries-in-wine]

[emilyinhalf]

people get so so so mad at you when you say Falin is any combination of fat, soft butch, or transfem which is why you should call her a fat butch trans woman more

edit: it's just super annoying when people act like the fanon Falin has no basis and everyone with that headcanon doesn't know what fat/butch/transfem people look like

[valiantvillain]

The obsession with bra straps will never not be absurd to me. I am a woman. I exist in a body with breasts. Therefore I must wear a bra, the most secure of which being those with straps. I do not endeavor to put them on display but should they so happen to escape the often meager confines of my clothing, they really should not be a cause for scandal. If people wear bras, your poor wee virgin eyes will be subjected to incidental glimpses of bra straps. Let me assuage your anxieties and reassure you that they are not a whore, that's just what clothing does and you are the greater asshole for pointing it out (or even worse, trying to "fix" it without that person's consent, as my own mother has attempted to do many times whilst walking behind me on the street and that woman is very lucky I have not accidentally hit her due to being startled at someone's hands on me) than you would be for keeping your mouth shut and your eyes almost anywhere else. It's underwear, it's breast support, not some lurid secret or kink best kept behind closed doors and never mentioned in polite society. Quit it with the puritanical-minded bullshit.

[cressida-jayoungr]

Coeli's Picks: Monochrome, part 2 (Gloria Swanson Edition)

One Dress a Day Challenge

Coeli wrote: "And now for a whole lot of Gloria Swanson, because she might have had the best film wardrobe ever."

In chronological order. (This list includes a couple of reposted images, but @coeli1000 suggested them in the first place.)

Male and Female (1919) / As Lady Mary Lazenby

My American Wife (1922) / As Natalie Chester

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew (1922) / As Betty Bellew

(See previous post here.)

Zaza (1923) / As Zaza

"Dig those painted stockings!" (See previous post here.)

Madame Sans-Gêne (1925) / As Catherine Hübscher

The Trespasser (1929) / As Marion Donnell

Indiscreet (1931) / As Geraldine "Jerry" Trent

Music in the Air (1934) / As Frieda Hotzfelt

[midnightbrightside]

It is my firm belief that the Kristoph wears shirts that are too big him to hide his snatched waist.

I totally believe like John Melaney, he’s got them feminine hips, so wears clothes that don’t fit so he can be “taken seriously”

He makes himself look ugly cause he’s too afraid and insecure to be the pretty little bitch he is

kristoph gavin is the first man to experience misogyny in the workplace so true

[flowerflowerflo]

motherfucking princess 💖

[clovesnz]

Not me developing a crush on my ONE straight friend like wth is wrong with meeee

[haggishlyhagging]

“Every wave of feminism has foundered on the question of dress reform. I suppose it is asking too much of women to give up their chief outward expression of the feminine difference, their continuing reassurance to men and to themselves that a male is a male because a female dresses and looks and acts like another sort of creature.”

-Susan Brownmiller, Femininity

[isawthismeme]

[mystery-noble-blood]

[cherries-in-wine]

Red lipstick brainrot intensifies

[familiaralien]

My mascot horror idea got a bunch of feedback recently so I guess I'll have to continue it as promised.

[Realizes that means I have to design a female anthro character that would be very obviously a girl to a hypothetical cishet audience otherwise she won't be period accurate]

[ktsphere]

Absolutely infuriates me when social events at work are advertised as "for females in the business" just say women

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

The control of women as part of strong governance.