dragonlady7

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I don’t think you can talk about makeup politically without talking about economic oppression. Women are expected to spend thousands a year on cosmetics (and other stuff likeclothing, health supplements, etc) when men aren’t. This isn’t just because of social pressure, it’s required by employers implictly or explicitly the majority of the time. Women are expected to put in an extra hour, if not more, work every day for no compensation before they even leave the house. Class society props up everything else

I think this really heavily applies to a lot of other appearance-related purchases as well, which you did mention but I think it is worth emphasising.

Men can wear the same suit for a week and no one will bat an eyelid, but a woman wearing the same outfit for multiple days in a professional setting is seen as unprofessional, not to mention that most women’s clothes are more expensive and less practical, especially when it comes to pockets, which requires us to get bags, which again is more cost.

Yeah absolutely!! Thank you for this addition! Stuff like this is why eliminating the wage gap between men and women won’t actually eliminate gendered economic inequality (especially when women are expected to be the some caregivers of children which is even more unpaid labour)

The expectation that women spend all of this additional money and devote all of this additional time also serves to further stratify women across class lines. These expectations put women who are already economically disenfranchised at a even more pronounced disadvantage. It further solidifies class barriers for women and makes it even harder for women to accumulate wealth or overcome debt, which increases women’s economic dependency on men and makes their labor more exploitable.

Not only is womens’ clothing more expensive/impractical, it is often made with thinner/lower quality material. Even just compare and contrast the fabric used in a simple t-shirts or trousers in many high-street shops and see how transparent and thin the womenswear is compared to a basic t-shirt or trousers from the men’s department. Subsequently, the clothes wear out faster and have to be replaced more regularly, which chips away even more at the income.

Likewise, there are more gradations of fashion for women. For a man, the same trousers could be worn for a formal, business casual, or casual occasion. For a woman, she would likely be expected to wear very different outfits for those three gradations. And fashions change faster for women; trousers that still fit her just fine may become dated over the course of her career, if she even found any that were made of sturdy enough material to last, simply because the expected cut of trousers subtly changed over that time, but menswear does not change in the same ways except for very trendy looks only young men will wear in casual contexts. My partner will go from his daytime business-casual look to a more formal appearance for going out to dinner just by tucking in the same shirt he was already wearing into the trousers he already had on, but I will have had to change clothes entirely, possibly down to the undergarments (shapewear, or a bra that suits the eveningwear’s neckline) and also the handbag, which has to match the outfit and occasion or you look sloppy. He owns two pairs of shoes, plus a pair of winter boots in deference to the season; even with minimal concessions to fashion I still have thrice that many.

I was fired from a job for not expending enough effort on my wardrobe. This was not a customer-facing job. But I didn’t show enough ‘respect’ to the workplace because I wore the same five outfits all the time. Yes really. The company founder’s hygeine was so poor we had special protocols for not having to meet with him in his office, but I did laundry frequently to rewear the same (apparently, unfashionable) skirt and I was the problem.

yeah I wear makeup only because i like it, sure, ha ha (Your picture was not posted)