Ginz NonBinary Street Wear, Fast Fashion & Piecemeal Design

I started a NonBinary Wardrobe Makeover in March, 2021, and I went nutz!

Camo Pants
Lightning
B-ball Dance
Snoopy Hoodie
Jacket Fronts
Jacket Backs
Sleeves
Tees Light
Tees Dark
T-Patches
Dressy

I was born in 1955. When I was 3, an aunt asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said a cowboy. She said because I was a girl, I had to be a cowgirl. Yuchh! I wanted to kick her. Sixty years later, duh! Not a girl, not a boy. Nonbinary
GinUp Fashion started with my 2021 Wardrobe Makeover, and embraces:
- The four colours of the nonbinary pride flag (yellow, white, purple, black). Sometimes gold for yellow, or silver or grey for white.
- Adapting a lot of pieces I owned for years—decades even—by markering, dyeing, bleaching and/or appliquéing.
- Pansies because many pansies boldly carry the four colours and ‘pansy’ is being reclaimed.
- Jean Jackets and Cargo Pants and Shorts cuz I’m allergic to purses and I NEED pockets!!!
- Thrift: I'm retired and live on a small fixed income, so no piece of clothing I've purchased since March 2021 cost more than $100.
I wear sunglasses and masks in all the photos (but not in real life) because they make me look cool (and, OK, I don't do makeup, I don't have a makeup artist, I'm not as photogenic as I used to be and I have to reject way fewer photos with a mask and sunglasses on).
Now, mostly all I wear wherever I go are clothes from my NonBinary Wardrobe. I like dressing for who I am even if no one else knows what the colours mean—my clothes are my second skin. I also get a lot of compliments and people ask where I got my stuff (especially the camo pants). Whenever I get a comment, I ask if they’d like to hear about why the four colours. They always do.

Camo Pants (9 slides)

These came purple, white, black and grey. I coloured some of the white on the cargo and back pockets and that area on the front under the yellow belt.

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Everything new but the belt

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Old, bleached Lee Jacket

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Same

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Old Northern Reflections Jacket, Customized

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Old Black Levi Corduroy Jacket, Customized

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Old Brown Old Navy Jacket Dyed Eggplant

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OOh là là !

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New Jean Jacket

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New Jean Jacket

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Lightning (7 slides)

Skateboarding pants from England. They came with purple (pink depending on the lighting) and white lightning and a black background. I coloured the lightning on the back pockets and one piece of lightning on the front with a yellow permanent marker:

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B-ball Dance (5 slides)

The black Raptor's T-shirt came with an all purple logo. I added the yellow and white. The purple Raptor's T-shirt came with an all silver logo. I added the gold and silver-black.

If you click the ❯ over and over quickly, I will dance for you.

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Snoopy Hoodie (4 slides)

I markered Snoopy's body yellow.

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Jacket Fronts (7 slides)

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Jacket Backs (13 slides)

Here, I mostly cut designs out of T-shirts then appliquéd them on with fabric tape.

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Sleeves (19 slides)

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Superhero 'Captain NonBinary'
Superpower: Splashes non-binary colours at stuff

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Tees Light (19 slides)

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Tees Dark (16 slides)

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T-Patches (5 slides)

Cutting designs out of t-shirts to appliqué onto Jacket Backs left me with lotsa t-shirts with big holes in the front. I experimented with patching some of those holes with fabric from different coloured bandanas and one with fabric from another holed t-shirt.

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Dressy (13 slides)

My dressy white Chucks have gold ankle logos and eyelets, and purple heel stripes. (Remember, gold for yellow.) Other than the Chucks, caps and masks, and sequin jacket, I owned everything at least a decade before the wardrobe makeover.