“I cannot stress enough that this is what dressing for the female gaze looks like” So went a viral tweet by G. L. Di Vittorio. It’s the caption for a photo of Oscar Isaac, a man whom I understand from Twitter and Googling to be a movie star. It’s a nondescript photo, but I will descript it all the same: It’s of a middle-aged man, with graying beard and hair, in frameless glasses, a gray sweatshirt with button-down shirts over and under it. He’s wearing some drab but normal-fitting slacks and carrying a backpack. The pose and the tags hanging from the outer-layer shirt give the impression of a shop mannequin.
The idea that women have more heterogeneous tastes isn't new, naturally -- the evidence was even taken up in a long-ago Cracked.com article that I can't seem to find. (Perhaps it's been removed; the site's sociopolitical stance is now rather different.)
Anyway, as you say, there's no pleasing 'em all, but the above getup -- "significant status, carried casually" -- doesn't seem like a bad play.
The idea that women have more heterogeneous tastes isn't new, naturally -- the evidence was even taken up in a long-ago Cracked.com article that I can't seem to find. (Perhaps it's been removed; the site's sociopolitical stance is now rather different.)
Anyway, as you say, there's no pleasing 'em all, but the above getup -- "significant status, carried casually" -- doesn't seem like a bad play.