Thanks. Okay. This is going to ramble a bit. So I was at uni (undergrad and postgrad) at the maturing of the alternative music scene here in the U.S. Scott Weiland and Kurt Cobain were performing in dresses (occasionally) and mascara (usually) and Dave Navarro walked a runway in a lacy purple camisole, and Riot Grrrl bands were wearing . . . whatever the hell they wanted, basically. The gender-bending in the fashion ethos evolved out of 80s theatricality and 70s glam and 60s . . . well, everything, but with a hardened thrift-store edge. So students and extra-uni friends weren't wearing much in the way of gender-conforming clothing. The retro look of that era was 1940s.

Against that backdrop, in that population, there wasn't a very clear-cut set of style guidelines or affectations between "feminine" and "masculine," gay or straight. The presentation was a lot more (no pun) fluid than it was before, or is now. It's definitely regressed since the early 2000s.