Calamity Jane, is a legend from Wild West. She was known as a sharpshooter, raconteur, and frontierswoman. She was known to be a hard-drinking crossdresser as she always preferred to dress like a man. She was one of the most popular characters of the West. This portrait was taken around the 1880s.Submitted by sandboxvet t3_1021e46 in OldSchoolCool
NMPapillon t1_j2sjubg wrote
I do realize that times have changed - but I don't see wanting to wear pants as making her a cross-dresser. Considering the petticoats and massive skirts and all the other nonsense women were expected to wear - wearing pants is just so much easier. I've always been surprised more women didn't just say screw it & put on pants to do their daily living, especially those women living on farms and ranches and having all the daily chores that goes with that.
sandboxvet OP t1_j2stes1 wrote
Back then, it was cross dressing. As for the comforts of the different gender stereotypes of clothes, as a trans woman, I much prefer the comfort of skirts to pants. As for the petticoats, they were uncomfortable, but they were also mostly worn by upper class women as they oftentimes required an assistant to get into.
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