Work It Girl: Tomboy Style

[BeeNee]

A vast majority of women live in an era where they are "allowed" to dress anyway they feel like. So much of women's clothing style of the past and present has focused on just being the princess, or the glamor girl, or the girly girl, or the pinup queen, but that doesn't work for every girl and it doesn't need to. What exactly makes clothing exclusively masculine or exclusively feminine? Color, shape, size, details? You can have some of the butchest men wearing a kilt and some of the most feminine women wearing a pair of pants, it says nothing about the person underneath and who and what they are. Some people try way to hard to try to arbitrarily identify a person by what they are wearing, but people are chameleons, especially women. Ultimately we wear what we wear because it makes us feel good in our own skin. It doesn't mean you are any more or less feminine or masculine. It just means, you're you, and that's awesome!

THE PLAIN WHITE T

A lot of Tomboy style relies on wanting and needing to be comfortable, and to have simple uncomplicated effortless style, and what better way to do that then sticking with a time tested basic white T. Rock the look with your favorite jeans, a slouchy pant, some comfy shorts, and/or your favorite tennis shoes.

SUITED AND BOOTED

A dress may be the furthest thing from your mind when it comes to dressing up, but the super casual look may be inappropriate for everywhere you need to go, so don your slacks, a pair of shiny dress shoes, a bit of color, a nice tux or suit with some luxe details, but still let your outfit embody your Tomboy vibe.

THE CASUAL VIBE

Don't be afraid to dip on over to the men's section to pick up clothing items that better reflect your tomboy vibe. Hats, shoes, suspenders, bow ties, men's jeans/shorts, military inspired details, heavier watches, you name it. Doesn't mean you still can't mix and match and throw in a more "feminine" detail here and there. Depending on your comfort level, go for a more slouchy, undefined silhouette with less emphasis on the hips and bust, or go for a tailored look that still honors your natural silhouette, but let's the clothes exude the boyish vibe you're looking for.

[RedneckCowgirl]

I'm a bit of a tomboy myself. Good take

[serious]

Good take!

[the-mad-german]

Tomboys huh?

Well i like Girls working in physical Jobs, like carpenters or steel workers... they got often a really unique body look... wide backs, thick arms, little bit jelly arround the butt ;) im totaly into that

[Hollywood-Glam]

My apologies, but I really hate the tomboy style!! 😫
Especially on special events, a dress is a MUST have.

[BeeNee]

Ha, Imagine how they feel about that style! Yeah, I understand that no style is everyone's thing, but I think personally its important to celebrate all styles, body shapes, and fashion out there because fashion doesn't belong to just one type of person.

[debbiedenise]

I hear you! Can you dress the Tomboy style up? How special should an event be before I wear a dress? Sometimes I go places where I am not sure exactly how most will be dressing. I usually overdress for these occasions. What do you think?

[BeeNee]

@debbiedenise If you're going to an event/party, you can always call ahead and ask the host or the facility about the usual type of dress for the event. Barring that, you kind of just have to guage what you think the level of dress will be depending on where you're going. Tomboy's can wear a tux or formal pant suit to dress up. Anything one would expect a guy to wear to such things is also acceptable for women, however, do take care when dealing with some institutions, especially religious ones, where a dress/skirt may be "required."

[PantherGirl]

To be entirely honest I am a bit of an tomboy, I really hate wearing dresses and skirts they gross me out

[Adeline8]

Ok, im a tomboy. LoL. I dont like high heel and dont like dresses in event. Lol

[Anonymous]

Nice, but tomboys don't wear high heels.

[BeeNee]

That's like saying men don't wear dresses. Sure, the majority don't, but whether a tomboy or a man, you wear what you like, and if you like to dress like a tomboy and still on occasion put on a pair of heels, then they do.

[Opinion Owner]

Tomboys don't wear heels because they are uncomfortable, unstable and unhealthy, they don't care about the occasions, being a tomboy is about the attitude.
Men don't wear skirts unless they are: Scots, Actors, or Transvestites (Drag-Queens).

[BeeNee]

Again, not all Tomboys feel that way. Many like blurring the lines sometimes or giving something unexpected a try. Even your analysis of why a man might wear a skirt does not apply to all men. Fashion is highly personal and does not play by one specific set of rules. Even if a majority does A, B, and C, you will always find those that do W, X, and Y their own way. You have only to think back to a time where women wearing pants was something that was not seen as ladylike or proper for a woman to do, or only "certain women" wore pants. Men used to wear heels and items we'd consider dresses in modern times and yet in both cases, by people going another way, doing their own thing, or changing the perception, fashion changed either for them personally or for the greater culture.

[Opinion Owner]

I'm aware that men were the first to start wearing high heels & stockings (European noblemen) and makeup (Egyptian Pharaohs), even skirts (besides Scottish kilts there are also sarong, cassock, lungi and some other types of male skirts), but women also started wearing pants long time ago, before the judeo-christian-islamic religion imposed skirts and dresses as "ladylike" clothes.
For example, in ancient (pre-islamic) Persia, women were wearing pants (similar like bloomers), while men were wearing long gowns.
Basically, all of the so called "gender-roles" were imposed by the patriarchal religions.
Anyway, all tomboys I know dislike high heels, skirts and makeup (except for the natural basics like face powder, concealer and stuff like that).

[BeeNee]

That's the great thing about fashion. It's it's own beast. It's always changing, or borrowing from the past, or looking towards the future. Labels put everyone into a box of 'you must be this or that,' but they never leave room for what fashion actually is, which is personal self-expression. Clearly a masculine guy can wear a skirt and a feminine woman can wear pants, and just about everything in between just as I assure you, there are Tomboys who on occasion, just because they want to, put on a pair of heels to shake things up.

[Opinion Owner]

Well, unlike girly girls, tomboys are known for not caring about the fashion ;)
Sure, masculine men like Scottish highlanders wear skirts, because it's a part of their ethnic clothes, but I don't think that macho men in some other countries would wear them.
Shake things up? Yep, high heels are unstable, you shake while walking... most tomboys can't walk in them, it's quite difficult even for most of the feminine women.
But I don't see why would they wear heels anyway, I prefer girls in sneakers, you know, not all men are attracted to high heels, now you are putting us in the box :D

[COCOCHANEL]

not for me