Granted, I don’t really have many of the opposite characters either (girls who dress like “boys”) in the case that I don’t think I ever really make it a thing. Which I guess is me saying I am slightly jealous and would probably feel just as comfortable as myself if I dressed like my characters instead of most things modern men’s fashion has to offer. Like Argus wears stockings and heels and regularly applies makeup but based on the era that inspires the setting these are all things that was a normal part of men’s fashion.
I mean, on one hand I can owe it to the modern perception of certain historical male clothing already being considered “feminine” or at the very least allowed to be flamboyant and outrageous without needing to go the extra mile of being alternative like I do. Or a line of dialogue in OVS where Cidro talks about wearing a dress but it is admittedly portrayed as I “funny situation that happened 20ish years ago” then a fashion choice.) and I wonder why. Wearing dresses is never a trait I give my male characters in any of my wips (except talk of Olaf wearing dresses “off-screen” in TNC and the fact that he regularly wears waist cinchers, corsets, and shapewear and aggressively heeled boots. I only own like two pairs of pants that I wear outside with the rest of my clothes all being skirts and dresses much to the point that I don’t think I look like myself if I wear anything else. When I was a kid I don’t think I ever understood that this trope was only ever really played for laughs in the media I consumed I usually just walked away thinking “wow blank looks so much cuter/better/whatever dressed like this” and it’s definitely contributed to who I grew up to be. Saw a post earlier about the trope where girl characters chop off their hair and disguise themselves as a boy and while that never resonated with me when I was younger I thought about the opposite trope (i.e boy characters dressing like girls).