{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"4. We talk fashion and gender","description":"Fashion's latest infatuation is gender-bending, gender-neutral and unisex clothing. But do clothes even have genders? How do you make gender-neutral clothing? We ask Australian fashion labels Seeker x Retriever and JBC Lingerie to weigh in. Then we chat to our mates Andy, Leah and Holly about what shopping is like when you're gender non-conforming.\nAlso in this episode: the origins of that woven straw bag you've been seeing everywhere, why t-shirts and blazers are a combination best left in the 2000s.\n\nA quick lowdown on some terms in this episode:\nunisex clothing: suitable for both sexes (implicitly acknowledges only two genders)\ngender-neutral / gender free clothing: clothing undefined by any gender\ncis: short for cisgender. Describes a person whose gender identity corresponds with their birth sex\nnon-binary: a gender identity that is not restricted to either male or female\n\nHead to our Facebook page for this episode's further reading list: https://www.facebook.com/smartcasualpodcast/","author_name":"Emma Do"}