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      That’s funny, but it’s also misrepresenting. Cross-dressing want really something that men would get away with u-assaulted … unless you’re Freddie Mercu. For how “manly men” were portrayed, look up Don Johnson with skinny ties and shoulder pads.

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        Did you miss the whole hair metal thing? All of those guys wore loads of makeup and those bands were massively popular for a while. They were literally drowning in it.

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          Poodles with guitars, yes. 🤩 There weren’t many people looking like that in regular life.

          I don’t know if I’m supposed to recognise the “now” dude but he looks like not a celebrity, just someone you’d pass by on a fashionable street.

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            Haha yeah true enough, at least outside of LA or New York, but still there were a shit ton of smaller copycat bands trying to make it, if you watch the documentary Decline of Western Civilization Part 2: The Metal Years you can see a bunch of them, point being it was a look that was popular with girls at the time since all these dudes wanted to be in bands mostly just to get with a lot of women.

            Yeah I’m not sure about him either, kind of a strange meme all around haha.