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[rhivolution]

...I wrote a long disclaimer for a post and now do not have the energy/spoons to write the post anymore.

Hate it when that happens. Saving the disclaimer to write the post another day. General synopsis: disconnect on personal (privileged) level regarding standards for women's clothing in UK, combined with own gender identity issues.

Also hate when the pharmacies close at 1 pm on Saturdays so I can't go get cough medicine. [sulks] Why are tissues so damn expensive here? It's not like other paper goods are pricey, and most other health/beauty products are reasonably or equally priced. (Except for contact solution, at which I am still boggling...£10 for 240 mL?)

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[futuransky]

That's interesting and doesn't surprise me, though it's not something I noticed particularly -- probably because goes against my personal fashion/gender presentation trajectory. When I lived in the UK I wore mostly vintage and art-studentish clothes, very rarely skirts, and now I dress more "professionally"/conventionally and more femme and wear skirts several times a week. California has its own particularities, of course... But with the exception of my now knowing how to dress for hot weather, I still feel that my fashion sense makes more sense in the UK than it does here even after almost 5 years.

I do notice that the UK stores I can afford to shop in are only really the 'fast fashion' ones, where the clothes are really of the moment and often full of stuff I can't possibly imagine myself wearing. There doesn't seem to be the equivalent of, say, Old Navy in the US for cheap basics, and I bet that contributes to the femininity-pressure you're feeling a well.

[rhivolution]

Yeah, that's very true about the whole inexpensive basics thing, definitely. It's also on a professional level as well--even in media land, which is SO casual in the UK outside the BBC, it's all about the skirts and 80s redux style.