It’s hard to open a fashion magazine or celebrity rag this year without reading tomboy-this or boyfriend cut-that. Twenty years ago, however, or even five, the word tomboy, both as a noun and an adjective, was—let’s face it—as outré as “girl power” is today. In fact, throughout the twentieth century, the mass marketing of gender stereotypes—Barbie being the perfect example—meant tomboys cropped up in only small numbers against the odds, trends, and ads. Not so anymore: casual menswear-infused fashions for women have positively exploded into the mainstream under the helm of designers and stylists ranging from J. Crew to Rag & Bone, creating a mass acceptance of both the word tomboy and the women associated with it.
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