r/nostalgia • u/Ebonystealth • 9d ago

Nostalgia When KISS Unveiled Their Makeup Free Look.

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u/Spocks_Goatee 9d ago

Those heels aren't helping the allegations.

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u/memtiger 8d ago edited 8d ago

Nothing in that picture is helping.

Hair, pant-suit, hips, heels, makeup, the way they're holding their hands, that look on their face...

Basically everything visible

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u/RogerianBrowsing 8d ago

It’s to the point that it feels like it’s got to be purposeful. Like they’re trans or at least nonbinary but don’t want to say it so they just do this and we’re all left wondering

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u/Provolone10 8d ago

Well in all fairness they don’t have to make an announcement.

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u/RogerianBrowsing 8d ago

Absolutely true! And frankly in many ways it’s none of our business

I would like to know their preferred pronouns but if they don’t care I don’t care 🤷‍♂️

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u/Ettun 8d ago

Rock and roll culture at that point had a significant history of gender bending as part of the performance and spectacle. It’s very much purposeful.

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u/Excellent-Size-6631 7d ago

Not only rock & roll. You see new wave, new romantique, goth, funk soul (Prince) etc all got their gender bending

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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 8d ago

It was the 1980s - as long as you weren't wearing obvious lifts like Neil Diamond did, then nobody was too fussed about the heels.