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Gender/Professionalism (1/2) 

I've been having the hardest time trying to figure out a way I can dress professionally and feel comfortable in my gender at the same time. Professional clothing is traditionally quite binary wrt gender presentation.

I don't like wearing makeup, though I'm expected to. Particularly as a, er, not traditionally beautiful person, it's expected for me to wear makeup in order to look presentable. I'm expected to shave/pluck body hair for the same reason.

Gender/Professionalism (2/2) 

I dislike most traditional business clothes. I feel uncomfortable in dresses, pant suits, and mens shirts/slacks/ties, for different reasons.

In an ideal world, I would wear flowy clothing in dark reds, charcoals, purples, greens, blues, and blacks, that disguises my silhouette. Sports bra underneath, tunic tops, gaucho pants, the kinds of clothes a modern dancer or androgynous elfling might wear.

Hippie clothes, so to speak, but I can't afford them right now.

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