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Lily 💋's avatar

Does anything look better on a body than drapey, flowy, mostly naked? Bring back mythological chic!

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Benji's avatar

Clothing peaked when it was sheets rope and clothespins. Feel like pure shit just want her back (himations)

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Benji's avatar

Why did she leave? Actually we left. I guess we couldn’t handle her Chiton

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Meagan's avatar

#5 is Howl's Moving Castle Corporate Chic lol

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Kiva-Marie's avatar

I want to be transmasc Artemis in a woodland glade but I’m mostly Just Some Guy

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Max's avatar

Trying to find a non-awful balance between White Dad at a BBQ, Boy Toddler, and Milo Thatch is harder than it looks

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Oliver's avatar

Somehow, despite renting my own dang apartment, I still manage to be Cody.

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Catherine Lent's avatar

so so great. love every look for different reasons and different seasons.

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Christian Dobbins's avatar

God this is such a mood. I've recently started transitioning and my fashion interests range from "hobbit who just wants to wander and write a book" to "Ramona Flowers"

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SEHM's avatar

This is why I'm kind of thankful to have suffered through school uniform. I learned how to tie a tie - only useful life skill I acquired there...

As someone *cough* in thier 40's 😭, socially transitioning (so far), I get a lot of this. Wearing a lot of teenie weenie beanies & ripped jeans, wondering if I come across as a teen skater boy or just a cringe middle age person

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Jennison's avatar

Oh what a mood (or several)

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Remy's avatar

#6 is giving me a bit of gender envy, but honestly you look great in all of 'em, ND!

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Aidan's avatar

I aim for Just Some Guy but always end up somewhere on the spectrum between “assigned ladies at Trader Joe’s” and “am I in the wrong bathroom” 😂

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Diana Huh's avatar

the cody tho

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Goyavoyage's avatar

Special mentions to options 1 and 6 for being so cool, option 2 for being particularly whoa, and the Charlie option for bringing back Lost memories :')

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Ro Windwalker's avatar

Also, WhyTF do you have to pick a vibe? Have lots of them! Pick which one you feel like on a given day! I mean, *some* people have a particular vibe that they are all the time, like a goth or a punk is nearly always a goth or a punk (but even a goth has comfy clothes some days...just, like, *goth comfy*), but other people have like club gear and office gear and around the house gear and going shopping gear and all of them look very different. I don't wear the same stuff I wear around the house as I wear to work. I certainly wouldn't wear the same stuff to a hangout with a bunch of other queer folk that I would wear to work. Work has a *dress code*. (I mean, it's not required really...it used to be, like 3 bosses ago, but now it's just my own professionalism that keeps me wearing business casual most of the time. My co-worker with a PhD wears jeans every day. She's also 20 years younger than me. I do wear jeans occasionally, though I like to wear nice jackets over them so I still look semi-professional with them.)

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Ro Windwalker's avatar

Randomly reading old strip that I missed in my email... So, how old is "old man" old? Because I call myself an old woman all the time, and I'm 54. And my husband is 50...and HE LOVES HATS. He 95% of the time has a hat on when he is outside. Okay, actually, it's nearly 100% of the time since the skin doctor lasered off a bunch of pre-cancerous spots off his head. He is supposed to never go out in the sun without a hat. But honestly, he had a hat on most of the time already, so the gods only know how he ever got those spots before that! (Especially back when he had a full head of hair?! I mean, it was red, but it was dark red and there was a lot of it, so how did he get so many pre-cancerous spots on his head?)

TL;DR If you consider 50 an "old man", I have one data point for you that old men do not hate hats. :D And *his dad* is in his ... late 70s, I think? And also wears a hat 90% of the time when outside.

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Jules's avatar

I got called "sir" at CVS last night! I got the backwards baseball cap points! Somehow the crop top didn't detract from the "sir"-ness!

I feel so much of this so deeply. What's "one vibe only"?? I love the transmasc Artemis but I'm not yet at the point of Body Masculine Enough to Feel Ok In Femme Clothes. Plus, testosterone gave me 15 extra pounds over the winter so none of my summer stuff fits and I'm floundering. I have more ass now, I didn't know I could possibly have <I>less</I>

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