Meet Silki Harris: Bowtie Designer

Silki Harris is a 23-year-old-lesbian event promoter and fashion designer who founded Ambiance Couture Bowties. What got you started with designing? My mother is a designer and infused a love of fashion within me since I was a child, which I now express through my own company. I have been sewing and...

January 25th, 2012 | Blog, Featured | Read More

Marimacho’s Hunt for Heartbreakers

Our friends over at Marimacho, a lovely masculine clothing line for the female bodied and transmasculine crowd, are looking for heartbreakers! To kick-start their new tumblr, the clothing line is welcoming users to submit photos of themselves rocking masculine clothing. You can check out some of the...

January 20th, 2012 | Blog | Read More

Are You Trying Too Hard?

Our friends over at Autostraddle sent us the following question from one of their readers: Little boys’ t-shirts with pictures of dragons riding on motorcycles: cute or trying too hard? First let me say that dapperQ does not participate in any shaming or fashion policing. We do offer suggestions...

January 17th, 2012 | Blog | Read More

dapperQ “Hearts” Femmes!

dapperQ recently received the following question/comment from one of our femme fans: “Hi! I’ve been reading your site a bit, and I’ve been really inspired by your fashion and courage. I’m a fairly femme lesbian, but I semi-frequently like wearing menswear, or meanswear-inspired...

January 9th, 2012 | Blog | Read More

Commit to Quality and Craftsmanship

One of dapperQ’s key themes is that that style isn’t about blending in. It’s about dressing to fight the good fight each day. Folks may not like what we wear, but they can be damn sure we are making choices, self-determining and gliding through the world with pride. In this OccupyWallStreet...

January 2nd, 2012 | Goods | Read More

TLC’s Cake Boss Bakes Cake for dapperQ Wedding

Apparently I’m about two months late on this story. But, if you’re like me, your busy schedule does not allow for much reality t.v. consumption. For the past six months I have been drowning in a sea of work: exams, papers, grant writing projects, planning activities for visitors who couch...

December 26th, 2011 | Blog | Read More

Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club Calendar

Need a holiday gift that kicks (or rather punches) butt? Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club has a tough and hot calendar for sale! Bring in the new year with tough female boxers (and, honestly, what’s sexier? If you aren’t convinced, a portion of the profits also benefit Shape Your Life which...

December 19th, 2011 | Blog, Goods | Read More

Titus Finds a Tailor

Three weeks before the wedding I attended this summer, I began shopping for clothes. My girlfriend had purchased her dress and I had an idea of the outfit I was looking for. I wanted to pick up the colours of her dress (pink and brown) in my tie and shirt and go neutral for the suit. The wedding had...

December 12th, 2011 | Blog | Read More

Tania Hammidi on LA’s Queer Fashion Scene

L.A, I’ve been told, is the land of the big femme/little femme couple. The masculine of center would be hard to find. I was told I would find few “queers” here and in fact that using the word queer wasn’t as common in L.A as it is in my home town, NYC. You can imagine my delight,...

December 6th, 2011 | Blog, Featured, Photos | Read More

“Queer Lives are Politiqal”: Fashion Speaks

All DapperQs would like to be have greater access to fashion that allows them to express their identity. But can fashion businesses thrive while addressing the need for menswear for female bodies? Stacie Pierre-Louis of Politiqal believes so – she’s an entrepreneur, trading on female masculinity...

December 2nd, 2011 | Goods, Photos | Read More