I came out to my family in my twenties but the irony is that they knew all along. I was never comfortable in a dress and the times I tried to rebel against the fashion norm I was told I looked too masculine. I've always been a total Tomboy! Now I'm proud of it! I thank you (Parisa) for my first purchase of queer clothing I can feel comfortable and proud to flaunt.

Keep up the good work!
Ellie M.

"one homo at a time".... what a great line. i just want to wish you super good luck. every week i go to your page and check out whats new, i got to say i am addicted. thank you for the amazing clothing line!

V/R
Torres

just keep doing what ur doing
.ur on the right path cuz ur fashion is real hot! sexy!

I first saw you on myspace about a year ago...ever since then I feel like a regular customer, lol! Love your tuxedo shirts and undies. Will you ever come up with a jeans line? Love your style and cant wait to see what else you will be coming out with!

Life is simple when you make choices and you dont look back!

Style...of only I could find one. Somehow I manage to pull off that bluestocking librarian look no matter how I dress.
Sigh, if only I had some whips and chains.

the more often i see lesbian girls dressing with no style but according to stereotypes (which happens very often in the town where i live..), the more i try to look different, going as far as wearing a skirt which my mum was never able to make me wear for the last 18 years.

its difficult to define my style, maybe i dont have my own style. i like the change, the skirt as well as my low-slung jeans.

sometimes i have to go to the boys department to find something that fits because i am small and well rather androgynous. now the cut may fit, but the rest...

i'd love a combination of the men's fashion (at the mo, the women fashion is simply absolutely not my thing at all, while the guys stuff looks amazing) with a feminin twist. does that make any sence?

i'd also love something reminding of the 20ties, but again a combination of men/women fashion.

I ran across your line around a year ago when I was, ironically enough, hunting around online for queer-friendly clothing. (I'm the proud owner of a skull beater. =D) As a fashion student, I'd kill for an internship at Rigged as well.

I personally identify as versatile. Depending on my mood, I can butch it up one day and girl it up the next.
I'm a huge fan of the vintage tees sold by Abercrombie and Fitch. The style is awesome; distressed applique,vintage wash, herringbone interior neck taping, and destroyed screenprint. It's andro, but with a more slender cut. There's only one problem: they have the brand name on them IN LETTERS THIS HUUUUUGE, or either say something completely hetero like 'Hold His Hand'. I can't think of many lesbians who'd wear a screen tee that, in spite of its killa style, reads "Blondes Don't Pay Cover". It kind of cancels it out. =/

(This also reminds me-Urban Outfitters has awesome stuff that's andro for both guys and girls.)

It's also all about availability. Like, I grew up in South Georgia, which basically translates into one either dressing in girlygirl-frilly-goodyness, or flannel and menswear. I couldn't just up and decide to go out and buy a plain white blouse. It would either be a baggy, man's dress shirt, or one that either (A) was too form-fitting and exposing, or (B) incredibly lacy, making any woman with a tomboyish streak cringe. The feeling comfortable in one's own skin factor is why some women typically opt for men's clothes-hell, I'd rather feel slightly tougher (and fork out less cash) as opposed to sexualized (and in turn look 'out of place' in my clothes because I was so uncomfortable), too.

I think that queer fashion currently lies in that middle ground between male and female...not exclusively one or the other. It's why when most younger lesbians look back on the Indigo Girls (in full mullet glory) circa 1988, you hear one collective "Eww". We want to look more like KT Tunstall...NOT kd lang.

It's just a vicious circle. There's not a bonafide market in androwear. Lesbians aren't willing to go out of their way and wallet size to hunt down the clothing that is available, and in turn it's assumed that there's no necessity for a dyke voice in the fashion industry.

Girl. Writing.

I wanna say GREAT THANX for what you're doing,cos it's a great sacrifice too.Feeling on top and leave it and at the bottom and then again on top,wow,that definitely deserves respect,at least respect...Creating smth for queer people...hmmm...that's a big thing to do.And what I may tell you about "my own fashion",my feelings about it are as follows: I like bright colours,experimenting,I used to buy clothes for skaters in order to feel "myself",I even got a kind of a white jacket with horns,quite catchy I must say,lol :)orange,light green are my colours.But at the same time as I work in office I have to preserve business style,but I like shirts,very businesslike,white,with stripes,and skirts too. Oh,I've got a pink skirt and a pink shirt on my cupboard!but they're nice and if I wear them with fence net stockings then it's a bomb!yeah,I like to be different in different surroundings.That's my short story.But lately I prefer to wear smth womanly,to highlight my femininity,gentleness...that's me,haha:)))))

Good luck and maybe I'll find smth for myself on your website :)
Best regards,
take care,
Lily

i mean dont get me wrong i love my curves
and using them on the same sex
but i want to be flexible with my style
and not just clench to one..
but at the same time i dont want to walk around
looking foolish...

hmm is there any way i might Bump into you
in the streets of Ny

**Been Wrung out to
many Times....**

im lost on the whole "keeping up with the lastest fashions" idea. i mostly dress for comfort in the first place anyway.

as an aspiring designer, it's kinda hard to get people to realize that im not stylish DESPITE being a lesbian, the two things are completely incidental to, or infact, working together for, the style i've created.

Totally. But you know, stereotypes are sometimes true-have you been to a lesbo party or bar lately? We should really have a show on Logo in which we makeover lesbians with bad fashion.

Hi,
I would like to join this discussion.
I think that your idea is faboluos. I live in Mexico Too. I would love to go to stores and not to be forced to by or gily clothe nor masculine.

I dress as i like, sometimes i use boys clothe and for work girls

I think its valuavle what your doing.

tell me where can ia find your clothe in Los Angeles, I visit every year ...
Thank

First of all, Parissa, you are adorable.

That being said, my gripe is that our society pinks and blues everything to death. I think that women should wear ties, and men should wear pink IF THEY WANT TO. One of the ways in which society dictates gender roles appears to be a topic of discussion currently on this page. I have struggled with my own identity when it comes to fashion...liking short hair, but not combat boots. Liking navy blues and greys and camoflage, but liking girly skirts and tights. I think that people ought to just throw the concept of masculinity and femininity out the window. Why does anyone have to either be "masculine" or "feminine," and since when does who we sleep with dictate what clothes suit us? We are so label obsesed!! And what we forget is that we in the gay community do it, too. I even hate the idea of "femme" and "butch," because again, we are defining ourselves and our relationships by terms that are still tailored to fit the straight ideal of boy and girl.

I say, combat boots with girly heels that leave little heart imprints in the snow when you wear them. I say, butch cut hair with pink glitter in it. I say makeup for all, or bare skin for all....but nothing should exist in fashion (or in life) just for SOME.

That being said, I am athletically built, in NO WAY overweight, and many clothes in stores designed for women don't fit me right because I am not an emaciated waif. It is sometimes this fact that leaves women who aren't a size negative 2 to our own devices. This has helped me define my own fashion sense, but I think it would be lovely to have more options for girly clothing that flatters girly figures.

While I have your ear, I also have a problem with designers who use animal products in their clothing lines. Gwen Stefani is a perpetrator of this, and it breaks my heart, because she always seemed like such a cool chick. I can see no need to abuse other living things for the sake of looking stylish. It is disgusting to me that anyone of any gender, orientation, creed or color could justify cruelty for the sake of fashion.

I would like to see fashion that is dictated by individual style, made for real people, designed by real people, socially and cruelty conscious but without a constant whiny agenda. I hope for a new era of fashion to begin, one that celebrates the diversity of the human body, identity and spirit without the confines of sizism and gender norms. "Pink and blue" is the new "black and white." In real life, it doesn't exist.