I only know what I know so prove me wrong. I think almost all other forms of art, from music to television and cinema to sculpture and mixed media and painting to dance all have proletarian channels, but fashion is almost exclusively for the wealthy. Arguably also it seems to me that a lot of culinary art tends to cater to the wealthy too, so fuck that as well.

  • TransSpaceAnarchy [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    From my perspective as a trans person, for me at least, fashion was all about seizing back the means of dress and accessory and blending it with my own new style. I'm poor, so almost all of my clothing comes from thrift shops or from clothing closets, and for me it's insanely liberating to break the views of normal, conventional fashion and to set my own world. I'm very much into retro fashion, I very much love the use of hats, I love brooches, and I can create a "fashion" style, outside of bourgeoise conventions. I really love going to antique shops and finding new brooches and hats, and it's something cheap, and even though as I am in college, none of my cis female peers would really do this, I can't help but find it liberating.

    I think something like this would be a proletarian outlook into the realms of fashion. Especially when conventional fashion (like fast fashion in the vein of forever21) doesn't accommodate the build of being trans.

    • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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      4 years ago

      extremely dope shit, your style sounds awesome too. I think maybe that's one part of this post this misses, fashion can be extremely gender euphoric. When this ol' enby got their hands on their first vest i felt like a whole new person.