Lesbian fashion: History and Key Facts

Lesbian fashion is the style of dress popular among lesbian and women-loving-women communities. It utilizes various signals and archetypes to convey the wearer's sexual orientation. The trends of lesbian fashion are influenced by societal factors, and its statements have been made purposefully subtle or bold in accordance to the shifting societal climate around lesbianism. Society has impacted the trends seen in fashion, both negative and positive, for every community. Each community reacts differently and takes certain attributes from each trend throughout history. The lesbian and queer community has accepted and rejected several trends to create their own subcategory of fashion. Throughout history, it is visible how the lesbian community adopted their own sense of style. From the beginning of the 1900s women started exploring their own sense of style by incorporating men's clothing, transitioning to the Jazz Age where the Butch and Femme styles became popular, to the 1960s where it was common to see women in jeans and t-shirts strolling the town with no bra and no make-up, to the many aesthetics that we see currently in today's society.

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