Okay, so US public schools have never been known for their tolerance toward LGBT students. Nor have they been known for their awareness of fashion trends. (My mom and I learned this when I was sent home from school in 1993 for wearing shorts in the wintertime. They were corduroy shorts with brightly coloured wool tights underneath: SO on-trend for 9 year olds in the early nineties. Bastards.)
And now, in 2010, this girl in Chicago is the latest in an endless line of ladies who had to fight for her right to wear a tux to her prom. Obvious issues at play: LGBT discrimination, conformism gone mad. It's HER prom too, and she has the right wear whatever makes HER feel stunning. (Somehow it's not ok to wear a hot tux, but it's perfectly ok to look like a psychedelic cupcake made of tulle and nightmares.)
But the stupidest bit to me--in that it's the most obvious--is that women wearing tuxes is actually very mainstream! I mean, this image is on the J.Crew website RIGHT. NOW:
Michelle Obama wears J.Crew. There's a J.Crew on every major shopping street in Chicago, for Pete's sake. You show the above image to a straight guy, a gay girl, a straight girl, a gay guy, or an engaged-to-a-guy-bisexual-girl like me... no matter what way you spin it, I think everyone can agree that a chick in a tux is not only nothing shocking, but in fact, pretty de rigueur. (And also tres sexy!)
Get with the fucking program, school.
Original story by the Chicago Tribune, via Coco Perez.
First image by Emily Quinn, second image by J.Crew.
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