https://www.thequeerwardrobeproject.com/home daily 1.0 2022-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/aaf39c8e-ec5d-4f4e-9cc8-261e79df3eba/090722_Rebecca__5.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/b80328ff-709c-426e-86d2-58ea53583366/240622_BPQ_Charlie_Final__2.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/80dbb93a-96d6-4b29-95ff-4654c30277c1/230722_Jasmine__2.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/cad1a4f2-83c6-427b-b794-16a0d7b9b5f2/300722_Melissa__6.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/4de36ef3-0b10-461c-990b-8f55d00bb656/300722_Sarah_F__11.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/4be3e185-bd2f-41c4-8103-f2b7ba30140c/310722_Jessie__21.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/abf62311-5a33-46f5-985a-47e12b69e2ea/230722_Sarah__6.JPG Home https://www.thequeerwardrobeproject.com/charlie daily 0.75 2022-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/ab0ca0d4-2fe4-437b-86f7-c8bbb179c68c/230622_Charlie_.JPG Charlie I really want people to read me as bi. But what I find is that generally queer people read me as bi and straight people have no idea. These signals we give off were never meant for straight people. They were meant for other queer people. And so straight people just are oblivious to them, because they're not looking for them. I'm quite happy for straight people to read me as bisexual. I'm still sometimes surprised when people realise I'm bisexual without me having said anything. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/78017ac1-5f38-46d1-ad14-813577a605d4/Charlie_signals.jpg Charlie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/93808ee3-90f2-4a96-9ca1-0992a2b4ce18/240622_BPQ_Charlie_Final__3.JPG Charlie To code yourself as bisexual rather than as a lesbian, your clothing has to have a knowing nod to not being either straight or lesbian. And there's a kind of there's a kind of awkwardness to bisexual presentations in a way that is hard to pin down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/2ab765fb-248d-4f0b-8856-2b80c439d37a/Charlie_shirt.jpg Charlie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/9f078520-3e56-418b-a64c-b86a19a151c5/240622_BPQ_Charlie_Final__4.JPG Charlie I've got a turquoise floral shirt that I found in a charity shop. 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I didn't really see that anything of that in myself, so it didn't cross my mind growing up that I could be lesbian or queer because I didn't look like that. It definitely had a big impact. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/370dd8eb-a659-4122-a179-17329b1a6a02/SarahW_Essex.jpg Sarah W https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/1660563233943-ETTBXIFAH5DB0AK1ABSE/230722_Sarah__4.JPG Sarah W I think on any given day, I might look a little bit different to another day. But broadly, I like bold prints, I generally wear skirts. And I wear a lot of colours. Sometimes I have to go to political party conferences, so I'll wear a pencil skirt, but there’s nothing queer about me there apart from my nose ring. Then at the other end of the spectrum, if I'm hanging out with friends, I might be wearing shorts with really hairy legs and a sleeveless t shirt with my armpits out, so I look probably more “butch” than I would usually. And then there's a whole range in the middle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/2c58c0b1-9392-4bf6-872c-d8fae7e61128/SarahW_different.jpg Sarah W https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/1660563361666-S1ZLICG5N726RS940QE8/230722_Sarah__3.JPG Sarah W I definitely don't get read as queer a lot in queer spaces, unless I'm snogging my girlfriend. I can see that in a completely straight space, there are more things about me that stick out. Whereas when I'm in a really, really queer space, I feel well straight, even though I've been in a lesbian relationship for 14 and a half years. I am really femme, and also, I am bisexual, and I'm not a "gold star" lesbian. 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I also think being plus size makes a real difference, that you're just kind of read as a mumsy white woman. I feel like you can play with androgyny in a very different way when you're lean and, and when your body is much curvier, you can't really look that masc. I have a very womanly body now. So I think people read you with your size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/e32e8773-c0fd-4c6a-bdeb-be5ca17b8f0e/SarahF_plus.jpg Sarah F https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/4de36ef3-0b10-461c-990b-8f55d00bb656/300722_Sarah_F__11.JPG Sarah F Probably the outfit I feel queerest in, is essentially the stuff my mum wore when I was growing up. I think that's my imprint of what gay women look like. I do love a buttoned up shirt. And I do love a comfortable shoe. It feels like that's like my natural uniform. It makes me feel good and comfortable and powerful, like being part of something. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/675e9d88-569d-4524-9961-478930f66eef/SarahF_KDLang.jpg Sarah F https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/1113d91d-4638-464a-93fc-a89ce9441778/300722_Sarah_F__15.JPG Sarah F I wear a lot of jewellery and stuff. For me like that slightly "alternative" chunky jewellery or chunky shoes is a way to subvert the femme thing. I like to have a masculine element of my outfit in some way, whether that's the chunky boots or a buttoned-up shirt or a leather jacket or something like that. I guess they’re just a signal that you feel a bit different from that archetypical straight femme style https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/49494d24-4f8c-44b4-819a-1f55d23cecf6/SarahF_alternative.jpg Sarah F https://www.thequeerwardrobeproject.com/melissa daily 0.75 2022-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/9c2f63b6-5e3a-4826-a13b-f01e7a4f1f35/300722_Melissa__10.JPG Melissa Since coming out, I've realised I don't enjoy the male gaze. I don't think I ever have done. Because it was there whether I liked it or not, I kind of dealt with it. So the idea of a stranger eyeing me up, or the idea that they think that I have dressed for them to eye me up, makes me feel quite uncomfortable. I would dress slightly differently in different circumstances, but it's pretty much always for myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/2c0cb41f-8518-4e8a-a3ea-39f850dd5b5f/Melissa_gaze.jpg Melissa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/5da29725-56f8-467b-b666-748053c0ef05/300722_Melissa__5.JPG Melissa After coming out, I was a bit more interested in marking myself as queer, like butching up and becoming more masculine. I was like, “Well, you know, I'm gay now. Surely, I'm going to dress differently”. Obviously, with time I’ve realised that your sexual orientation doesn't equal a dress sense. Now I feel that I'm kind of back towards feminine dressing, which is how I've always dressed. And it was just sort of marrying up my dress sense and my orientation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/9af1822e-9e08-466a-a8a4-34ba4db93e46/Melissa_dolled.jpg Melissa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/695bd539-d078-4c5a-82ed-2c6b503025fc/300722_Melissa__2.JPG Melissa If I'm going to be in a crowd that are sort of “my people”, I express myself a little bit more. And that might be slightly more revealing clothing, brighter clothing or more makeup. As quite a straight-presenting woman, if I dolled up for going to a mainstream space, it would be assumed I'm doing that for men. And I don't want that. Whereas, if I was going to a queer space, nobody would assume that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/67d4099c-6976-4649-95c3-620f37744285/Melissa_out.jpg Melissa https://www.thequeerwardrobeproject.com/jessie daily 0.75 2022-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/876b466c-5ce8-446b-a305-7f631f4a9a5a/310722_Jessie__9.JPG Jessie When I was exploring my sexuality for the first time with women, I bought this really amazing shirt. It had tigers and leopards all over it. I remember wearing it and being like, “Wow, this is really revealing of my gayness, my newfound queerness”. Like I thought it was so queer looking. I don't know if it was, it must have just been different enough from what I was wearing before. I enjoyed something that I thought might be sending a message out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/f8b896f0-5339-4470-9569-0f089f8150ea/Jessie_shirt.jpg Jessie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/d73f87ab-f884-4ebb-9311-c875900dd485/300722_Jessie__2.JPG Jessie If I mention I've got a male partner, I really want to talk about how I'm not straight. But when I was going out with a woman, there were lots of spaces that I felt unsafe, being gay in public. And this is a really interesting, opposite problem about the whole bi visibility thing, which is where having a sign post or an image would be helpful. I would like it if there was pansexual "uniform". If I could send signs that I knew would be understood as pansexual, I think I'd send them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/cd9ca559-beb4-41f2-b565-75acf9269335/Jessie_uniform.jpg Jessie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/4be3e185-bd2f-41c4-8103-f2b7ba30140c/310722_Jessie__21.JPG Jessie I remember going on my first date with a woman. She looked quite femme and blonde, and I got in such a state because I didn't know what to wear. I became obsessed with the fact that I should probably dress quite macho or masculine, because she looked really pretty. I was deliberately not putting on any makeup and I had jeans on and this stupid shirt and my [lesbian] housemate said, “Hey, you can wear whatever you want”. I think I was really limited in my understanding, and I saw her and thought I should be the other gender or something. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/50bf4fee-3017-47f4-96fd-50125d13633e/Jessie_macho.jpg Jessie https://www.thequeerwardrobeproject.com/becca daily 0.75 2022-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/48555f1e-22a3-4468-b9f2-c7ac2e3092ab/Becca_erasure.jpg Becca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/831734e7-d903-4cfe-bc3e-9f2599a3a1f3/090722_Rebecca__4.JPG Becca I want to look not straight. Because I think as bisexual people, we are often forgotten in that LGBT+ umbrella, especially if I'm in a relationship with a man. Having the majority of people assume that I'm straight can be quite exhausting. Maybe that’s why I'm trying to express myself through fashion and all of these little bits and pieces because I want to very loudly say “this is me. I'm bisexual”.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/d55812af-eb00-4723-bed9-5dd27306a65d/Becca_conservative.jpg Becca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/8bea5cc8-8299-4b74-a824-f8f2335d3344/090722_Rebecca__2.JPG Becca My younger sister is also queer. She's 16. If I'm going somewhere, sometimes I'll send her a picture of my outfit. And I'll be like, “do I look gay?”. We both went to get our septums done and it’s such a stereotypical bisexual thing, but it really increased my confidence in like queer spaces, which is odd. The way that you accessorise or what you put on your body does not make you any less or more bi, but there is some power in this thing makes me feel most like myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/e9d54f0e-9471-46ed-8915-9c86654fb757/Becca_septum.jpg Becca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/0197d083-6709-43cb-a942-53496d3ea520/090722_Rebecca_.JPG Becca If I'm going on a first date with a man I do go a little bit more conservative. I won't wear so many clashing things, or so many bright colours or not be so loud. But on a date with a woman or going out to a queer space, I tend to wear more things that would usually scare me, like crop tops, or trousers or things that I would usually not wear because I think I'm too big. I feel more comfortable wearing them in queer spaces, and on dates with women, because I genuinely feel more accepted in those spaces. https://www.thequeerwardrobeproject.com/jazmin daily 0.75 2022-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/15b7ad86-42fa-4cf5-8242-c9e7bf3fed4c/230722_Jasmine__4.JPG Jazmin I realised that when I was younger, I consciously dressed for being desired, while also having to consider what was “appropriate” and what was not. But of course, when the subject of your desire changes, or broadens out, you also start to think differently about how you want to be desired, so you need to perform that through your style. Desire is certainly fluid. Obviously style is also fluid, in a couple of years my tastes will have changed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/a5627827-c7c8-493b-9983-98cdac24daf6/Jazmin_spaces.jpg Jazmin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/34549487-1e74-4e04-abf1-d73ed5d1cf14/230722_Jasmine__1.JPG Jazmin I was dating this person, and I would wear these floral dresses. She said jokingly, “I would have never thought you were bisexual if I saw you on the street dressed like that”, and then I put my boots on and she said, ”Oh, yeah, now you're bisexual”. She was bisexual as well, but more queer passing, with short hair and all the “right” kinds of performance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/5ad3fefc-0610-44ee-b309-c9a047482556/Jazmin_breaking.jpg Jazmin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/1b0585c0-09c9-4bbe-8168-b2443b39be97/230722_Jasmine__10.JPG Jazmin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c70aca887cc259a30d10ec/0fde3fcc-d9cc-41b3-a8ab-85b3ccc72326/Jazmin_desire.jpg Jazmin https://www.thequeerwardrobeproject.com/passing-privilege daily 0.75 2022-09-01 https://www.thequeerwardrobeproject.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-08-22 https://www.thequeerwardrobeproject.com/researching-queer-women daily 0.75 2022-09-02 https://www.thequeerwardrobeproject.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2022-09-02