Thrift stores like Buffalo Exchange are an excellent place to start for cheap, high quality outerwear. Here’s Allex Knight rocking her $16 find. (Thanks, DapperQ, for introducing me to her!)

Vintage Coat: Buffalo Exchange ($16!)
Sweater: H&M
Tank Top: Urban Outfitters*
Jeans: Black LEVI Skinny Jeans
Snapback: OBEY
Glasses: Urban Outfitters*

(Photo Cred: Shaina Chin)

*Urban Outfitters donates money to anti-gay campaigns. Learn more about their actions here. Buffalo Exchange and Ragstock are great hipster alternatives

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dowhattheytoldya-deactivated201 asked: okay so I really love the OBEY pants, but they are rather expensive. I was wondering if you had any suggestions for cool guys' punk/skate style pants and jeans at a broke girl's price?

How about Vans or Pacsun? Anyone else have suggestions?

With her indie meets preppy meets lesbian style, Amanda from Oklahoma City demonstrates the key to a dapper wardrobe: multiple pairs of shoes. If you are looking to step up your game (Buah haha), I think that shoes are the best place to start. To me, they frame an outfit and put the whole thing in context. If you have a lower-end shirt, for example, nice shoes can totally make up for it. 

Putthison recently did an article on “The 7 Shoe Wardrobe,” and I found it really helpful. He goes over the basic types of shoes, ranging from casual to formal. Want more? Check out my list of womens shoes in masculine styles.

• Sunglasses: Ray-Ban
• Shirt: Calvin Klein
• Pants: Gap
• Shoes: Cole Haan 

Shirt: Gap
Necklace: H&M
Pants: Forever21
Shoes: Joseph Abboud 

• Glasses: Express 
• Shirt: J. Crew
• Vest: J. Crew
• Jeans: Gap
• Shoes: Cole Haan

Shirt: Obey
Hat: Target
Jorts: Gap
Moccasins: Minnetonka

• Sunglasses: Ray-Ban
• Shirt: American Apparel
• Tie: Forever21
• Jeans: Express
• Shoes: Cole Haan

Follow Amanda on Instagram: boys_wanna_be_her

glitterbitchxx asked: I’m gender-fluid and work a retail job where I have to look reasonably heteronormative and conservative for customers, with some leeway for fashion. I feel really uncomfortable wearing very feminine clothes when I feel masculine, but I don’t want to get questions about looking “butch.” How would I go about dressing fashionably with a nod to my queerness without stepping outside heteronormativity?

You might have already looked into this, but if you are in the US, some states have non-discrimination laws for gender identity and expression. Here is a list of those states, and if anyone has a better resource to recommend, please let us know!

So, with the understanding that IT IS WRONG AND TERRIBLE for your employer to question you on looking too “butch” or force you to wear feminine clothes, I have some ideas for you:

Diesel Limited Edition Canada Flag Boxers available at Ssense for $30

1. Boxers. On your more masculine days, you could wear boxers or some undergarment that makes you feel grounded.

2: Browse the women’s section. Evaluate what are the most feminine clothes you feel comfortable wearing on your most masculine days. For example, if I were in a situation where I needed to look feminine, I would wear hip hugging pants to enhance a feminine sillouette and then hope that I could get away with a men’s shirt. Walk around the women’s section in a store sometime when you are feeling more masculine, and think about what you could stand to wear. If you can manage to wear clothes from the women’s department on those days, you’ll have made huge strides towards heteronormativity! And, as previously discussed, some of these clothes from the women’s section can be quite andro. (Check out this and this)

3: Make up. You could also try putting on make up in a pretty-boy way and see if it would balance out the “butch” clothing. This is not something everyone would feel comfortable doing, but it’s something to consider. I don’t think that make up is inherently feminine. Otherwise those pretty male birds are all genderqueer.

(source: theroyalheirs.tumblr.com)

4: Bright colors. Bright colors and their association with femininity are another social construct with no real grounding. If you wear all men’s clothing, but have a bright purple chinos, people will probably read you as more feminine. 

(source: deargolden.blogspot.com) <— p.s omgomg this is such a cool blog and I just discovered it!!

5: Hipster glasses. Seriously, I know your job wants a conservative look, but hipster glasses are so in right now that I think you could get away with them. They have such a bold statement that they would probably detract attention from the fact that you look like a total homo… and also hipsters break past the gender binary all the time, and people don’t question it because they’re hipsters.

Obey Meadowlark Short-Sleeved Floral Shirt, on sale at karmaloop for $55.95

6. Floral patterns. Flowers are another one of those things that we’ve assigned as feminine for no reason. Find a men’s shirt with a floral pattern on it and you can play their game without compromising your gender presentation. HAHAHA.

I hope you found these ideas helpful, and please leave more thoughts in the comments!

When I saw these two Australian cuties floating around the Tumblrverse, I had to find out what they were wearing. They mix vintage and dapper styles (elbow patches!!) with swaggerific snapbacks and T-shirts.

Someone recently wrote in asking about whether you can mix hats with button-ups. Well, here is your answer!

Lannah (blonde):
Hat: General Pants
Pants:Dottie
Shirt: From a little hippy market
Shoes: Vans

Aneta (Brunette):
Hat: Obey
Shirt: General Pants
Cardigan: General Pants
Pants: JayJays
Shoes: Vans

Follow Lannah: Skeein.tumblr.com
Follow Aneta: Vagetarian.tumblr.com

We’ve been getting so many questions about men’s Tanks; where to get them; how to deal with large armholes; what to do if people are making fun of you for being a virgin (wait… that’s not about fashion. Why is it in my inbox?)

Ashley rocking the tank undershirt (link)

Yes, men don’t mind exposing their boobs, so most of their tanks have larger armholes. The solution: Hanes or Fruit of the Loom undershirts. Available on Amazon. Boy’s tanks however, tend not to have large armholes… I don’t know why. So I like to wear them.

Here are some of my favorite tanks to help get you beat the heat:

AMBSN Clothing Popsicle Tank Top, available at Trucker Deluxe for $39.99

Company 81 Men’s Stripe Tank Top, available at Amazon for $24

Topman has a ton of tanks tops for all the small queers. Their smallest size XXS is even too small for me. Yellow Winner Vest, available at Topman for $32.

Tank with Wide Fluro Stripe, available at ASOS for $19.88.  (Free shipping both ways in the US + 10% off. Code: 10SALE)

Fly Society Stewardess Tank, available at PacSun for $24. (10% off $100 plus free shipping. Coupon code: PACSUN10)

Fine Jersey Unisex Tank Top, available at American Apparel for $17

Obey Font Heather Yellow Tank Top, available at Zumiez for $29.95

Other men’s and boy’s tank top brands I love that will have them in stores but not online are H&M, Old Navy, American Eagle, and Epic Threads (Macy’s Boys.)

Oh, and tell your friends that “virgin” is a heterosexist concept and it’s your body and you do what you want.

Anonymous asked: hey i'm in the market for some tank tops. any recommendations?

The list has grown since I last posted about tanks:

Mens/boys: Aeropostale, American Apparel, American Eagle mens and boys, ASOS, Epic Threads boys’ (Macy’s), Hanes A-shirts (available at Target) in boys, H&M Boys, Obey, Old Navy Boys, PacSun, Vans

Womens: Gap, Old Navy, Modcloth

Any other recommendations?

Just simple summer swaggy style, and a good addition to the “summer bad boy look” I was helpin a sibling out with a few posts ago. Also diggin Ashley’s new slicked back doo. If you are on a budget and interested in picking up some wayfayer shades, ASOS has similar ones here for $14.54.

• Sunglasses: Ray-Ban Wayfarers
• Tank Top: Obey Bar Logo Blue, available at Zumiez for $24.95