Why Unisex Clothes Never Got Off The Ground

It was probably somewhere around the seventies when the term ‘unisex clothing’ was invented by clothing manufacturers. After a short period of mild interest, they disappeared from the shelves. Men just weren’t interested and women became interested in wearing men’s clothes.

A lot of things have changed over the years and thankfully men are no longer stuck with wearing bland clothes, a wristwatch and closely cropped hair in order to prove they’re men. Long hair is acceptable, as is jewelry, even earrings. However, a man would never choose a dainty pair of rhodium earrings. Most men stick with studs or a single earring that has a masculine look to it.

Women, on the other hand, can wear whatever they feel like wearing. A woman might even choose to wear a bulky men’s sports watch and it might look sexy on her. There’s nothing sexy about a dainty watch on a man, though.

Men today can wear earrings, necklaces and bracelets. What they can’t wear, though, is a jewelry set. If a man is wearing earrings, they should either look like pirate’s earrings or something his girlfriend picked out for him. If he’s wearing a necklace, it should be something he found when he was traveling or have religious or other significance for him. It should never be part of a set just because it matches. Only women can wear jewelry sets simply because they match.

In just about every department of fashion, it is the same. Women can look sexy and alluring in men’s clothing, but men just look gay in women’s apparel. That’s fine if a man is gay, but if he’s not, he had better take heed: there is nothing macho or sexy about women’s clothes on a man.

Sweatshirts are basically just sweatshirts, whether they’re made for men or for women. Nonetheless, there is something incredibly sexy about a woman in a man’s sweatshirt, but girls sweatshirts on men are unheard of. You can’t even picture it in your mind.

Women wear men’s jeans. True, they look even better if they’re tailored for women, but basically they are jeans, nonetheless. All the top clothing designers in the world could put their heads together and still not be able to design a skirt that would be acceptable to a man.

There is no adequate answer for why it is so. It just is. Women can get away with wearing men’s things and even make them looking devastatingly alluring. The opposite just doesn’t work. The closest thing we have to unisex clothes that work is drawstring yoga pants and tee shirts. Other than that, guys, stick with the men’s department in your local store!