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Are turtlenecks not girls’ clothes? I thought they were girls’ clothes…

In theory, my brother and I each own a few turtlenecks.

In practice, we frequently have trouble figuring out which turtlenecks are whose when sorting laundry, and it is likely that at least one of our turtlenecks is currently hanging in the closet of a different person than the one it was bought for.

(My brother and I have also shared polo shirts, but he refused to wear some of mine because they were too pastel. If he thought turtlenecks were feminine-coded, he wouldn’t wear them. I don’t have enough information to say for sure if his opinion is a common one, but for what it’s worth.)

We buy most of our clothing, and pretty much all of our interchangeable clothing, from Lands’ End. You might want to check them out. (Try looking in the kids’ section; we wear the largest kids’ size. Looking at the website, apparently the gendering works like this: “girls”, “boys”, and an at-least-somewhat-hidden “kids” category whose members appear in both sections. I haven’t poked around enough to determine if there’s a way to browse the androgynous section specifically.)

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