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Most clothes, oddly gendered and sexist and it's fucking weird having different clothes for people who identify differently, like clothes are clothes. Make them for everyone. It's fucking wild.
Men and women have wildly different body shapes. Thus, gendered clothes.
I guess people who are non-binary don't exist according to that. Or intersex people, or people who was born with differently shaped bodies.
Why exactly do you even care?
I own women clothes (as a male), my wife owns many men clothes. We dress however we like, we don't care for labels or what gender is put on there. If I'd feel like wearing a pink hello-kitty-dress, I'd do so. And we're genX and gender-boring. I would even care less if I'd identify as something else than my pants contents tell me.
Why do you give a crap about how some store genders something? Pick what you prefer from wherever? Seriously asking, not mocking or anything.
Totally not the point, and it was obvious, but hey, if you want to be offended instead of engaging with the thread, that's your perogative.
The vast majority of people don't fall into that and manufacturers will focus on the majority of customers.
Yeah women's socks don't make sense to me. They're socks. Why are they gendered?
Women tend to have narrower feet.
We would all be better off if we just included foot width in shoe sizes though.
Wide foot owner here - can confirm shoe and sock should come in multiple widths not just lengths
Shoe sizes need to go too. Just measure it in centimeters. List all the measurements - length, width at forefoot, midfoot, rearfoot. Let people go online and look up a list of shoes that actually fit perfectly. Instead we have three or four different variants of shoe size numbers, gendered, that don't even work with width, and half the time are too big or too small.
I've bought women's socks for a long time if they were cheaper never had any issues with the fit
no pockets
Oh wow, those really exist
That should be called a socket.
Freesewing.org tries to do that, but just ends up awkwardly referring to "people with/without breasts" instead.
I'm sorry to say this, but I don't need the extra space for H-cups my ex needed. ๐ All depends on your specific body, but there are good reasons for all kinds of specific clothing shapes existing from extremely slim-fitting muscular shorts and super-spindly trousers all the way to saggy super-long shirts most people use for sleeping, Y-shaped t-shirts for big cup sizes and plus-sizes on suits.
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People have different body shapes, you know? And sure, you could say "Buy why isn't every design available in every shape then?!", to which I'd say that I guess in an ideal world it would be but as a company you got to draw a line somewhere because manufacturing, logistics and storage costs are a thing. But if you look at say redbubble, they'll sell you virtually any design on 50-80 different articles of clothing independent of which one it is.
There's some... weird things though, granted. Like how you can tell "made for women"-trousers because a) the button is on the left and b) the pockets are ridiculously tiny.
Yeah I hate having button downs that tuck only one inch into my waist (I'm a man)