I’ve always preferred the Androgynous Dandy Look.
My personal fashion icons include Oscar Wilde, Prince and Andre Talley Leon. Flamboyant. Ostentatious. Fluid. Genderless. Or gender fluid.
Sometimes I wish I was more daring in dressing my boys when they were young. But why would I be? The price of being a girly looking boy is high. Prince and Andre can make that choice as adults. What mother would foist it on her child?
My BFF and I once discussed gender appropriate clothing for children. We agreed it was best to dress girls like girls and boys like boys. We considered ourselves gender ‘confused’ and see the trouble it had brought us.
I’m really digging Orange Culture right now.
Fashion Scout UK said about them
ORANGE CULTURE IS A MENSWEAR BRAND WHICH HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS A “MOVEMENT”, MORE THAN A CLOTHING LINE, FOR A CREATIVE CLASS OF MEN WHO ARE “SELF-AWARE, EXPRESSIVE, EXPLORATIVE, ART-LOVING NOMADS”. COMBINING CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY WESTERN SILHOUETTES, LIKE COLLARED BUTTON-UPS AND LAPEL-LESS BLAZERS, WITH AFRICAN SENSIBILITIES, OKE-LAWAL CREATES PIECES FOR MODERN MEN WHO LIKE A LITTLE FLAIR, AND OF COURSE: COLOR.
That sounds like me.
I like the look.
MzAgams 
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