Most unisex ‘trendy’ clothing stores have a separate male and female section on opposite sides of the store.  You walk in, look at both sides, spot your desired clothing line and head that way.  The problem lately for me is telling which side is which.  Personally I completely blame this on the retro trend of 80s and early 90s clothing becoming ‘cool’ again.  Bright colours and loud emblems make distinguishing between male and female clothing that much harder.  I have a number of problems with this:

1) Fluoro colours are offensive and should be reserved for truckers shirts (in reality anyone blind enough to not see a 150kg man when backing up is not going to notice fluoro anyway).
2) 80s clothing was NEVER cool, even in the 80s.
3) Spandex should only be worn by pushbikers for both comfort and to confirm their homosexuality.
4) I now often find myself picking up shirts going “Large? This is not a large?  Ohh… this is a chick’s shirt” before heading to the OTHER side of the store for the men’s stuff.

Personally I think the 80s was just a really bad hangover from the 60s and 70s drug taking and should not be relived.  I am not the only one engaging in retro bashing however - it goes as high as the High Court of Australia.  There was a recent uproar about naked photos of young children by ‘artist’ Bill Henson being on display at an art gallery.  The High Court had to come out and defend it’s purchase of some of Henson’s artwork 28 years ago.  Entitled Boy the series is a sequence of five black and white photos depicting a boy running towards the camera in three shots and sitting with his mother in the final two.  The funny thing about their defence was when a spokeswomen for the High Court said:

there “was no nakedness” in the shots and that the worst that could be said about them was that the mother had 1970s hair.

See? Even the High Court agrees that the past should be left dead and buried.  ‘Nuff said.
Article in the age with High Court’s statements:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/high-courts-soft-spot-for-henson/2008/05/27/1211654031701.html