[MR] old Buckinghams song

["Ed Hopkins" <Ed.Hopkins@MCI.Com>]

Poster: "Ed Hopkins" <Ed.Hopkins@MCI.Com>

> > But why should they be obliged to fool the eye?
> > I've met a great many _temporal_ transvestites
> <snip>
> > But I almost never call them on it.  Why should I not extend
> > the same courtesy to _gender_ transvestites?
> 
> I never said you shouldn't. I just opine that it is tough upon first
> meeting one to know what to do; once I'm clued in on what they are
> trying to achieve, I'm good to go --

I guess I was really responding to something that someone else
had posted earlier:

  "If they tell me to treat them like a man, I treat them like
   a woman in man's clothing who asks to be treated like a man"

>                                    -- but it's hard to tell a woman
> who is seeking to be addressed as a man from a woman who just happens
> to be wearing those clothes because it's the right thing for the job
> (armour, for instance) or because it's more convenient, or whatever.
> I don't know about Atlantia these days, but there are many women out
> here who go about in male clothing merely for the convenience or lack
> of knowing, but none of them are trying to pass as men... 

I wonder if the reverse is ever true.  Has there been any time
in the history of Costume that women's clothes were more convenient
than men's clothes of the same milieu?  I can't think of any examples.

-- Alfredo

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