The Gucci dress worn by Harry Styles on the cover of Vogue in December 2020 and the black Christian Siriano tuxedo dress worn by Billy Porter to the Oscars in 2019.
Fashioning Masculinities, V&A
The bold and beautiful Fashioning Masculinities show reveals how male sartorial “transgressions” have a rich and complex history.
Nancy Bird Walton preparing to fly a female Santa into north-west New South Wales in 1935.
©Royal Far West
In Australia, between 1930 and 1950, women repeatedly stepped in to play the role of Santa. So the figure in the red suit could be gender neutral today.
A modern portrait of Jeanne Barret disguised as a man, based on the author’s interpretation.
Timothy Ide
Fresh research casts new light on a boldly unconventional woman who cross-dressed as a man to join a French naval sea voyage.
The mariage burlesque of the Plastic System Band carnival group in Lamentin,
Martinique, 2012.
Charlotte Hammond
The annual Carnival rituals subvert traditional French notions of family and sexuality.
What’s the collective noun for a group of pantomime dames?
PA
Claims have been made that having a male panto dame in this day and age is sexist (Oh no it isn’t!)