Tammy Wynette might query the sentiment but sometimes it's hard to be a man, too. You have to pretend for most of the year that you actually care about various balls going into/over/through various nets/poles/sticks, and, unless you are willing to counter accusations about your masculinity or lack thereof, you must remain a stranger to the delights of a cosmopolitan cocktail.
Add in a desire to wear something more than your old jeans and an "ironic" T-shirt or a boring suit, and you raise all manner of difficulties. Considering that most designers are men and do a brisk business designing for women, you would think providing for their own kind would prove no problem. But no. In the past two decades, fashion has consolidated its image of effeminacy, even campness, so that for a man to admit that he has an interest in fashion is tantamount to professing a fondness for mirror balls and Liza Minnelli.
