Ever wonder about this: Whyis a woman in a suit a business person, but a man in a dress is a transvestite?

Question

Does that strike you as being out of place? Why do women wear suits, is it because they want to be equal with men? Imagine if a man wore a dress to work, the looks he would get, yet a woman gets none.

Answer 1

Ha! You've got a point. Of course when women first started wearing pants in public, or a business pants suit, it was controversial, and some truly mean things were said. But our culture got used to in pretty quickly. Men in skirts, maybe not so quickly, no good reason. It probably goes back to ancient times when it was thought by most everyone that men were superior to women. So when a woman first dressed like a man, she was just trying to assert her own strength. But when a man dresses like a woman, he is denying the old "truth" about the superiority of men.

Answer 2

Many women often wonder what is the right attire for the work place. It depends on several things, together with your line of work, your company culture, and your audience. There is a large number of options for you if you want to appearance stylish and professional concurrently. It is all about knowing how to have the right look and more based on outfits that are budget friendly. Could business clothing can simply incorporate the latest fashion trends. There are actually different types of business attire which can be used at the workplace.
The main varieties of dress codes are Specialized Dress and Business Laid-back. The former type is old-fashioned whereas the second category is usually nothing but a more relaxed variation of the business dress. The principle factors that you should focus on when shopping for business clothes are whether or not they are comfortable and aceptable. Your dress should always be compatible with the work atmosphere.

Answer 3

Some men in different cultures, do wear garments that we westerners may consider as dresses. Some wear pants underneath, or shorts.
And they are not gay.

However, there are some people who also are not necessarily gay, but do wear womens clothing, these are called trangendered. Some are & some are not.

Women's professional attire may seem like a mens' suit, while at the same time are totally not like a men's suit to the woman wearing it. Maybe you might like to try one on when no-one is looking?

Not all things are what you might presume they are. Especially when you refuse to look at them from a different point of view.

If you're gonna go through your life without learning to appreciate the finer facts of what makes the human race so special, you might like to do a little more research before posting such a question in the future. Because some people can be offended.

Answer 4

A woman that wears a business suit is still a transvestite. It doesn't matter what society calls it or that society is biased against men. I blame the feminazi movement for this nonsense. Have you read the Bible? Have you seen in there what it calls a woman that dresses like a man? It says they are an abomination! God hates abominations. Women should look like women and stop being gender benders. It's a SIN!

Answer 5

Some would say it's reverse sexism... that a man doesn't have the same opportunity as a woman to wear whatever he wants.

Others would say that it's regular sexism... that men limit themselves (as opposed to women limiting them) from wearing dresses.

My opinion is that it is purely cultural. Men wear skirts all the time in the native African tribes. The Scottish kilt is very popular in Scotland and elsewhere. Only a few decades ago, it was thought unmanly to wear pink shirts, but that taboo isn't around anymore.

As for women wearing pants... that started becoming popular in the 1930s/1940s, well before the feminist movement of the 1960s.

I respectfully disagree with the folks who say women who wear pants want to be men. That's just a ridiculous statement. Just about every girl and woman on the planet wears pants, and they do so because the garment is more comfortable in most situations.

Answer 6

Dresses are impractical for some kinds of work. At my job, I wear a uniform, because a dress would be very impractical.
Men look at women in dresses in a certain light. Women wear suits so men will take them seriously. I think that men pay less attention to the fact that they are working with a woman, when the woman wears a suit. Instead of looking at her breasts, they are listening to what she says. If a man wore a dress to work, then good for him. He probably shouldn't, though, because it's impractical for most jobs.
Hope this helps!

Answer 7

Women wear suits because they like the style, it has nothing to do with men. If a man wears a dress then he somehow wants to look like a woman, unless it's like a kilt or something like that, which is different. Also when women started wearing more "boyish" clothes, like pants, there was a backlash from some people.

Answer 8

Women's business suits are more fitted for a feminine body type than a woman's dress on a man.

However, men wearing dresses (orskirts, kilts, whatever) isn't so uncommon if you look at period clothes. Look at the way men's clothing chnged over time to accomidate hose, then short pants and finally what we recognize today as 'male' attire. On the other hand, if you look at woman's clothing, it doesn't change form until about the 1920s, when skirts began to get shorter.

I think people just aren't used to seeing men wear 'women's clothing. Partially because of what michael941260 said about gender roles (they've become ingrained in our society) but also because it seems to be a more drastic change.

Answer 9

You're right, Dearheart, I just never thought of it that way. I've never really liked business suits on women. It makes them look too "mannish" (although I'll get slammed for that comments...sigh). No, I have no problem with women wearing pants...I wear jeans and culottes as often as possible; but if I can wear pants why can't men wear skirts and dresses? A lot of them would look better in them than I do.....and in the Middle East the men seem to have that long dhoti (erk..spelling?) that looks rather comfortable. And what about those regimental Scots boys and their lovely kilts? No one's telling them they're wearing a dress -- at least not to their faces. I figure everyone should wear what they're most comfortable in for the situation at hand.

Answer 10

It's not often you see a man in a woman's business suit. I think that is the correct comparison; a man might wear any kind of dress, but you're specific about a woman in a business suit. What about women in other masculine/male clothes?