109
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I can get away with wearing mens tops and shoes, but my hips are too fabulous for mens pants to look good on me. So I gotta settle for women's pants.

So I'm currently doing field work for Ecology so I need to get PRACTICAL WORK PANTS WITH LOTS OF POCKETS.

Meanwhile women's clothing shops are like "UwU, work clothes for women? You mean these business pants with no pockets?" There are no other kinds of workwear for women IN THE WORKWEAR SECTION.

No motherfucker I mean cargo pants with all the pockets and belt loops. I'm going out in the bush. I need pockets for extra batteries and I need belt loops to hook a satellite GPS to. Fuck.

Look at this sexist bullshit. Here is the women's workwear section:

Here is the men's workwear section, same store:

Apparently all women work in offices and all men work physical labour jobs and fuck you if you deviate from your assigned role in life.

FUCK GENDER ROLES AAAAA IT'S 2024 AND THEY'RE STILL DOING THE FUCKING NO POCKETS THING bird-screm-2

EDIT: Thank you comrades for all the suggestions on where to shop. Care-Comrade

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Uniqlo has pretty good stuff imo, so does Cottonon, though the waist pockets still need work.

Proper urbanwear brands get pricy but are also sometimes good.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Uniqlo, while still good, has had a slow and steady decline in the quality of their clothes. Fucken falling rate of profit smh.

Cotton On? I'm not sure I'd want to be using their stuff for fieldwork tbh.

I haven't stepped foot in one of their stores for a long time so maybe things have changed but I personally wouldn't go there for workwear which is going to be used in what I'd assume would be medium-duty workwear. I'd be reluctant to reach for most hiking clothes brands for fieldwork tbh, unless I was in a pinch.

Just for clarity, my understanding is that light duty workwear is what would be suitable for a typical construction site supervisor imo - they're probably going to have their hands clean and they probably aren't doing the day-to-day hard labour type jobs on site.
Fieldwork is my medium - you're not working as a concreter but you're probably putting your clothes through more tribulations than than a typical hiker would, and possibly for a whole season rather than just a week or a few days here and there. Think like park rangers who aren't just stationed at a ticket booth but who do some ecological restoration and maintenance in their duties.
Heavy would be jobs like what riggers and loggers do.

I wouldn't have high hopes for Uniqlo gear to hold up for longer than a season of fieldwork.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah fair, misread the requirements.

In that case most cheap brands arent going to work. Hard Yakka and Lowes used to provide some affordable light stuff I'd wear on a light dig but even they're crap now, and most hiking brands, even good ones are designed for different stresses.

I'd probably go military surplus id guess, preferably a good quality military like Czech Soviet era stuff.

this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2024
109 points (100.0% liked)

transenby_liberation

2210 readers
1 users here now

Community for trans and non-binary folk to band together and break free from the oppressive shackles of cis-heteronormative capitalism. Or shitpost and converse with each other. Just stay comfy, y'all. :)

Asking trans and non-binary related questions is highly encouraged by our community, but please direct all questions to c/askchapo. <3


EDUCATIONTransgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come by Leslie Feinberg

Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg
Trans Liberation Chapo Discussion

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg

Whipping Girl by Julia Serano

Feminism for Babies


RESOURCES

Hudson's FTM Resource Guide

Transgender Map by Andrea James

r/asktransgender wiki


RULES

1. Familiarize yourself with the Code of ConductCode of Conduct

2. Don't link to transphobiaPlease don't link to transphobia (or other bigotry), even if your personal intent is to challenge the bigotry in some way. Provide a content warning label in the title of your post where applicable.

3. Be dank; don't be not-dankNo liberalism, capitalist apologia, imperialism, etc.

4. No sexually explicit contentAs badly as some of us want to get saucy here, do not post sexually-explicit content that could reveal your personal or confidential information. Until there is a way this could be safely executed, all sexually-explicit posts will be removed to keep our comrades safe.

5. We are not a crisis serviceWe can't guarantee an immediate response. This does not mean no one cares. If you need to talk to someone at once, you may want to take a look at this directory of Hotline Numbers.

6. If you need help but don't feel comfortable making a post for any reasonplease message the moderators. We will be glad to talk with you privately, or help in any other way that we can.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS