Toss me in as another ‘I did in high school’.
But it was the early 80s. We were all quite mad.
Well, screw her. Guys have just as much of a right to play with gender as girls do. If a man forbid his girlfriend from wearing hiking boots on the weekend or wearing pants to work, we’d call him a controlling jerk. Why should it be any different the other way around?
Even after seeing ‘dinner&dance’ earlier in the post, I still read ‘d&d’ as Dungeons and Dragons.
Re “a company dinner & dance” is this some sort of costume party or just a personal fashion statement you wish to make.
I saw your thread about the costume. All of that stuff you wanted to wear - especially those boots - and she was worried about nail polish?
Personally I’d be more shocked if you didn’t wear nail polish. I’d be all “man, you just can’t get into the spirit of this, can ya?”
As for how I’d be if my imaginary boyfriend started wearing nail polish? Well if he wasn’t goth or emo before we started dating I’d be a little weirded out by it. If he was planning on doing a 180 and becoming goth or emo I’d probably break up with him because I’d feel like I would totally clash with his new style.
My teen cousin was sporting some nail polish last time I saw him. A couple of relatives were weirded out but I pointed out that if you consider how he dresses and the music he listened to it was no big surprise. I thought it was cool.
If I had a boyfriend, and he wanted to wear nail polish as part of a dress up costume thing? I’d be helping him pick out a color, advising him on how to paint his nails smoothly, or going out together for mani/pedis.
If he’d been wearing it all along, it wouldn’t bug me a bit. After all, someone in the couple ought to. I can’t keep nail polish on my nails for more than about five minutes before I smudge, chip, flake, break, or tear something.
If he were already a bit gender-bending and wanted to add it to his repertoire, why the hell not? Again, I’d probably vote for mani/pedi day at the spa.
If he weren’t gender-bending, had never worn nail polish, and this was coming out of the blue, I’d be . . . concerned. I’m in my late thirties. I figure a man I’m likely to get into a relationship would be around the same age, and by then, he really needs to have his head, his gender, his style, and his ensemble figured out. I’d be worried that he’d totally repressed some aspect of his personality, and it was going to be coming out in a big way.
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if you told me to check my nails, I’d turn my hand over with my fingers curled to look. Perhaps I have my own gender issues.
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then there was a coworker of my mom’s who sacked out on the couch Friday evening after taking off his shoes and socks, went to bed in the dark, then got up and got dressed in the dark to go on a fishing weekend with his buddies. It wasn’t until Saturday night when he undressed that he found out his six year old daughter had painted his toenails bright red. His buddies were . . . amused.
Mmmm… it’s not officially a costume party, but when the partners come as a Ninja Turtle and Gandalf, well… 
I’ve got another friend that’s already gotten her gothy clothes, and there might be 2 others joining us, but all of them are women. I’ve heard of Kimonos, geishas, samurai, sailors moon, planned. I have no idea what the other guys are wearing, but the partners are usually far more daring than the other associates. Last year the theme was bollywood, and one of the partners came in the most bombastic 'fro you had EVER seen. But DAMN he managed to carry it off, and carry it off well.
I’ve had a nailbiting habit since forever. Don’t know why but I can’t go a day without doing it. I read some articles suggesting some methods to help me stop doing so and came to a conclusion that I’d probably want to try some bitter tasting nail polish. Shit… after applying that crap 2 times I couldn’t do it anymore. The shiny nails was way too weird for me so I had to stop. Still open to other alternatives.
ETA: If you’re talking about colors… Fuck that! lol. If he’s goth and wearing black polish that might be acceptable but if he’s attempting anything other than that NO WAY!.. Does he go get manicures and pedicures too?
I suspect it’s more of a nail polish thing, rather than a gender thing. After all, if you don’t normally wear nail polish, there’s no point in checking how they look, I suppose?
For the curious, the other 2 questions were:
Check the sole of your shoes.
Women will, while standing, um, bend their knee to lift their foot, and look behind them to check the sole of the shoe.
Men will lift their foot in front of them (and possible grab the foot with one hand) and check their sole in front of them.
I suspect this is a skirt thing.
Annnnnnnnd… I can’t remember the other. OH WAIT now I remember!
Take off your T-shirt (no really)
Women will turn the T-shirt inside out by grabbing the bottom hem and pulling the t-shirt over their heads.
Men will grab the collar and pull the T-shirt over their heads, leaving the T-shirt the right side out.
I have no idea why, but I expect it’s because Women’s T-shirts are much more delicate than men’s t-shirts, and grabbing them by the collar would wear them out much faster. And women won’t wear tshirts with stretched out collars, while men… Men, on the other hand, will re-wear tshirts, and the whole process of turning the tshirt the right side out again is just too bothersome. No, really.
So there you go.
No, it’s because boobs get stuck in bottom hems. You’ve got to lift the bottom edge of the t-shirt over the sisters. It’s possible to pull the shirt over the head, but it’s not as easy and it takes longer.
When I was a kid, the test was to drop an item in a seated lap. Supposedly, if you were a girl accustomed to wearing skirts, you’d push your knees out to catch the object in the skirt “net” between your legs, but boys would clamp their knees together. Comes, as far as I know, from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, placed when enough women always wore skirts for it to be possibly true, but it didn’t test out well in 1986 in Miss Seppa’s 6th grade classroom!
I wouldn’t have minded so much either, but it was part of a whole new look he adopted. Remember the club kids of the mid-90s? Something like that. Except he started dressing like that all the time, not just to go clubbing. To me, there’s a difference between funky thrift-store style and “ready for Burning Man 24/7,” and he just couldn’t deal with that. This was just part of the reasons why we are no longer together.
Sorry about the TMI, guys, but I just had to explain myself.