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Anybody else read "The Debutante in Blue Jeans"?
The strictures of traditional femininity aren't bound up in the specific clothing you wear, but WHY you wear it. If you're wearing jeans and a hoodie because it's comfortable and who gives a damn what anybody thinks, that's one thing. If you're wearing jeans and a hoodie because guys are oogling Ellen Page and you want to catch you a man, that's another.
Tom Wolfe wrote about a similar issue in a 1978 essay called "The Debutante in Blue Jeans." (He was talking about clothing as a marker of social class, but there are a lot of paralells.)