Equillibrium

Materials: A Bra, Scissors, Needle, Pin, Sewing Machine, Sewing Pattern for boxer briefs

Gender roles are something that has been ingrained into us since infancy, from how people refer to us to how we should look like, what jobs we are allowed and not allowed to do, what toys to play with, and what to wear.
The latter element is what this work focuses on. A typically feminine clothing, a white bra with lace inserts, becomes a set of male underwear. The delicate lace, the trimmings and the bows on the original garment are preserved and repurposed to g trimmings and bows on the original garment are preserved and repurposed to give the new piece of clothing the same sensual appearance of lingerie, which is usually considered ive the new piece of clothing the same sensual appearance of lingerie, something that is usually considered to be only feminine, but keeping An article of typically feminine clothing its function as male underwear.
Are males not allowed to be pretty? To be sensual? Sensuality, beauty, is something that has been forever attributed exclusively to the female gender, and by the discrimination women have faced since the beginning of time, those words became a sexist stereotype in itself. A girl being called pretty is a compliment, a boy being called pretty means he looks like a girl, looks weak, looks unmanly.
Men are praised and expected to be rough, their beauty meant to be animalistic, not delicate, to incite lust and intimidation alike, conforming to the standard of toxic masculinity society has ingrained into itself.
This work shatters that standard, giving a typically male undergarment the chance, the right to be sensual, to be pretty and delicate, to be feminine. Telling us who looks at it, that there is nothing wrong with that. (Text by: Key Chignola)