I’ve always thought of myself as a girly girl when it comes to fashion but recently something disturbing has happened to me: I’ve started taking style tips from boys.
My boyfriend’s wardrobe, usually somewhere that I wholeheartedly avoid, has become the fashion holy grail and I’ve started to covet his crisp denim shirts, plaid items and baggy jeans.
Androgyny is nothing new – fashion designers have been re-appropriating menswear items for decades. Coco Chanel revolutionised fashion in the early 20th century when she freed women from restrictive corsets and dressed them instead in jersey fabrics and trousers.
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