@article{2020,title={CLOTHING THAT ARE SPECIFIC FOR OPPOSITE SEX: ANALYSIS ABOUT CROSS-DRESSING},abstractNode={Social gender perception evaluated in two genders in terms of gender is classified as women's and men's clothes in terms of clothes. With features such as shape, color, fabric, ornament and accessories, clothes were evaluated as silhouettes specific to women and men. However, since the beginning of the twentieth century, the question of the identity-determining role of the clothes in the context of the concept of gender has been brought into question on the use of clothes identified with the opposite sex. In recent years, as the use of clothes associated with the opposite sex has increased in many societies, the discussion of clothing codes for gender perception has gained momentum and enabled the terms "cross-dressing" and "cross-dresser" to appear in the literature. In this study, it is aimed to make an analysis on the use of clothes coded as women's and men's clothes, shaped by gender roles, by the opposite sex; The clothing styles of two famous male artists Elton John and Zeki Müren, who became visible with the clothes of the opposite sex, were examined on the form, color, fabric and accessories according to their systematic. The indicators that are effective in gaining cross-dresser identity are handled in terms of gender norms and questioned in terms of “what”, “why” and “other” concepts with Queer approach. It is clearly seen that both artists sometimes use all the items of the opposite sex's clothing, sometimes a few items, and sometimes a secret item that gives a message in their clothing style. The approval of the society by neutralizing the exclusive power of the normative identity with the identities they create has been evaluated as a practice of Queer's opposition to labeling such as social gender, gender and sexual identities. },author={Ceren ÖZ-Emine KOCA},year={2020},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}