In World 258, there is no price, marketing, or visual disparities between different clothes. Though they are still designed to be practical for the wearer and their comfort, they do not yield to specific gender roles. The origins of this culture can be traced back to a Pink Tax repeal resulting in equality of pricing between masculine and feminine clothing products, as well as the production of more gender neutral clothing in the early 20th century.
As a result of this rapid change in fashion and gender, a significant decline in gender and sex based discrimination, homophobia, and harassment occurs nationwide. And the fashion industry embraces an ever-evolving era of progress and experimentation.
What if …
… clothes were not inherently associated with a specific gender?
Issue targeted:
“Marked” clothing, Gender and sex based discrimination due to clothing, and the Pink Tax.
This World was contributed by Marilyn Gongas (located in USA), using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the author and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.
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