Lesbians have often been ridiculed for their fashion tastes, but the reality is that we are fashion revolutionaries. Let's face it, we start the trend and then the fashionistas follow suit. Here's eight examples that show we have always been ahead of our time.
1. Suits
We have been suiting up for years. Marlene
Dietrich’s androgynous look turned heads in the 1930’s and now women in suits is just another day on the catwalk.
2. Overalls
Yep, they are known as part of the quintessential lesbian uniform.
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But now here’s fashionista Sarah Jessica Parker.
3. Flannelette
If you don’t own a flannelette shirt can you actually be a lesbian?
Ellen Page is a bona-fide flannelette loving lesbian.
We don’t know if this lady is straight or gay but
we know where she takes her fashion cues from.
4. The ubiquitous baseball cap (worn backwards)
Max from the seminal lesbian film Go Fish was
doing this all the way back in 1994.
The Biebs just can’t get enough of lesbian fashion statements.
5. Underwear We love our wide band men’s underwear and we were doing this way before Beyonce that’s for sure!
6. Birkenstocks.
They might not have been our finest moment in our fashion history, and in fact if we’re honest some of us did ostracise our Birkenstock loving sisters but now they are positively hipster de rigueur.
Ruby Rose in her Givenchy Birkenstocks
Some hipster guy ripping off lesbian fashion.
7. Braces (suspenders)
Yep butches have been rockin these for decades.
Rachel Maddow looking dandy.
Hipster guy dressing like a lesbian and he doesn’t even know it.
8. Doc Martens
They are ours. They will always be ours. We kneel at the shrine of Doc Martens.
Tegan and Sara in their Doc's.
Quite interesting. Who agrees?
(Via Gay Network)
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