1) Nope, the latter. Possibly surprisingly for someone who is never particularly feminine, I really like having a typically female body. But, waistcoats are fucking hot. If only I could find a suit jacket that'd fit my shoulders. Sigh.
Also, part of it isn't so much that I really like masculine dress so much as in terms of casual wear it's much more convenient (it tends to have more pockets for putting Stuff in, and you don't have to worry about how you bend over or sit down incase you flash your knickers) and I feel horrendously insecure in feminine formalwear.
Probably because in my year in school there was this big thing about not being a tryhard. I still have this leftover compulsion that if you aren't feminine or pretty and you wear things that are too feminine or pretty (which are too good for you) everyone else will be perfectly allowed - nay, it'd be practically their duty- to tear you to shreds.
Also, because at the time when I first had any reason to wear any kind of formalwear at all, all the dresses available ANYWHERE were all this particular style, erm, I don't know the name for it, but they looked horrible on me.
2) :P When are you coming to visit Enzed? I suspect I am more likely to visit Scandinavia than America. I also want to visit the Mediterranean. I would like to see America some day though. I suspect I'd have to do it when I had a lot of time in one go (well that's true of all travelling really) because there is so much of it. Maybe in the future plane costs will be lower... :/
3) You need precision, flexibility, and especially balance for both. I found that when I did ballet and fencing together, they both helped each other out a bit. There aren't much similarities between any of the actual movements, but a lot of the muscles and skills are the same. Social dancing and fencing on the other hand really don't help each other out at all, I've found, except in that general fitness helps all sports.
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on 2010-07-18 12:19 am (UTC)Also, part of it isn't so much that I really like masculine dress so much as in terms of casual wear it's much more convenient (it tends to have more pockets for putting Stuff in, and you don't have to worry about how you bend over or sit down incase you flash your knickers) and I feel horrendously insecure in feminine formalwear.
Probably because in my year in school there was this big thing about not being a tryhard. I still have this leftover compulsion that if you aren't feminine or pretty and you wear things that are too feminine or pretty (which are too good for you) everyone else will be perfectly allowed - nay, it'd be practically their duty- to tear you to shreds.
Also, because at the time when I first had any reason to wear any kind of formalwear at all, all the dresses available ANYWHERE were all this particular style, erm, I don't know the name for it, but they looked horrible on me.
2) :P When are you coming to visit Enzed? I suspect I am more likely to visit Scandinavia than America. I also want to visit the Mediterranean. I would like to see America some day though. I suspect I'd have to do it when I had a lot of time in one go (well that's true of all travelling really) because there is so much of it. Maybe in the future plane costs will be lower... :/
3) You need precision, flexibility, and especially balance for both. I found that when I did ballet and fencing together, they both helped each other out a bit. There aren't much similarities between any of the actual movements, but a lot of the muscles and skills are the same. Social dancing and fencing on the other hand really don't help each other out at all, I've found, except in that general fitness helps all sports.