Comments on: Why Hemingway Used to Wear Women’s Clothing

By: lover of flower girl dresses

lover of flower girl dresses — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:15:00 +0000

Ernest Hemingway in a flower girl dress? That I have to see.

By: Pink Flower Girl Dress

Pink Flower Girl Dress — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:22:00 +0000

I am a student of textile and fashion designing. Childrenâ€™s dresses and flower girl dresses really fascinate me. Sometimes I get small contracts of tailoring small girlsâ€™ flower girl dresses, which gives me some sort of hands on experience on tailoring.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:50:00 +0000

Wow…just wow.

By: BassMan

BassMan — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:14:00 +0000

I’m a boy
I’m a boy
Though my ma won’t admit it
I’m a boy
I’m a boy…
If I say I am I get it!

-The Who

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:39:00 +0000

@Jenny it was a lot more than hunting. There was a lot of bravado and braggadocio among him and his friends. The bullfighting, boxing, womanizing, etc.

I think you hit the key to his novels. On the outside his heroes were manly men, but upon closer inspection they were not.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:01:00 +0000

I just took a course on Hemingway and Faulkner, and we discussed how Hemingway is seen as this big “manly man” and his “heroes” are supposed to be as well. We, most of the time, found a bit of the opposite. Many of his “heroes” were not manly men, like Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises. Also, I personally am not sure being a “man” was important to Hemingway as much as he just liked to hunt.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:16:00 +0000

And of course the picture of Hemingway has him shirtless and firing a tommy gun. It’s hard to get manlier than that.

By: toddes

toddes — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:36:00 +0000

According to my mother, dressing male boys (up to a certain age)in dresses was fairly common practice back in the day.

The train of the dress would be placed under a table leg and would allow the child limited movement and the mother could continue working without worrying about where the child had gone. It also allowed easier access to the diaper when it was time to change.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:32:00 +0000

I’m surprised this article didn’t mention that Ernest’s son, Gregory, went on to become Gloria (and sadly died in a women’s detention center). Gloria lived in the same city I did growing up — Missoula, Montana — and would sit in the mall every afternoon and sketch. That was before the sexual reassignment surgery and transexuals stood out a bit in the fairly quiet town.