Dapper Women

Lesbian woman collecting fashion inspiration, useful references, and aesthetic pleasure.

[halfcourts]

Courtney Williams and Natisha Hiedeman (aka ‘The StudBudz’) for Vogue by Rasaan Wyzard

[crimson-femme]

90s butches by Chloe Sherman

[lizlemondyke]

Tracy Chapman for NYT, 2025

[eggpngg2]

Suited by Sophie Spinelle

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source: Common Lives Lesbian Lives; A Lesbian Quarterly ( #36- Fall 1990 )

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source: Girls’ Night Out, by Chloe Atkins

[oldschool-butch]

Piano Bar butch 🎹

(She/her)

[thenatureofbutch]

Dapper 💥

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source: butch/femme; Inside Lesbian Gender - editor Sally R. Munt , photo editor Cherry Smyth

[dapperdears]

Nina C. with her custom wedding suit by Indochino.

[mabellonghetti]

Joan Chen, 1990’s

[dapperxdyke]

Off to my internship to counsel clients!

[dapperxdyke]

10 years later, I’m running my own private practice as a licensed psychotherapist, but not without quitting the field from burnout from community health and coming back because healing our community is a care ethic I couldn’t quit for long. I send my gratitude to my late supervisor Phyllis Fonseca who was able to convince me a reality of leaving the field for higher ed and coming back because she was able to do it, so I did it too working as the LGBTQ+ Director at Wellesley College. Thanks Phyl! There are multiple alternate realities that I didn’t make it, but in this one I did. Same leather bag I came into grad school with too.

[laundryandtaxes]

Recent pictures with The Boy

[dapperxdyke]

Getting back to posting about my lil gay outfits, cause I was proud of the fit today

[prarthanaprasad]

A list of surprising things

1. I rarely ever see pictures of Indian women in suits. So here's one.

2. This was my dad's suit. If I liked wearing my mom's sarees as much as I like wearing my dad's suits... Well let's just say I'd have a lot of sarees to wear.

3. Ladies, we look hella good in suits (not surprising) We should wear them more often.

[lesbiciousbeginnings]

As a butch dyke, my fashion inspo is the men on those older, historical, mass market paperback romance novels. Open, puffy shirt… tight pants… boots… holding a swooning woman… 😭

[lesbiciousbeginnings]

:^)

[nyc-looks]

Laura, 25

“I’m wearing two of three pieces belonging to a Thomas Farthing suit made of Abraham Moon tweed with a club collar Brooks Brothers oxford shirt, a 50s silk repp tie, J. Press silver collar pin, and Alden No. 8 shell cordovan loafers. My style is heavily inspired by 50s-60s Ivy style and British town and country tailoring with some pops of color thrown in for fun. I lived in London for a few months and fell in love with the tweeds and flannels there as well as Savile Row suiting. My more casual outfits draw from the sportswear present in 50s-60s Ivy style due to the relaxed, looser cuts of that genre and the playfulness that style encourages.”

Oct 23, 2022 ∙ East Village