ABSTRACT
In the late 1980s it has increasingly seemed that lesbians experience a freedom and a pleasure in dress that is denied, if not to heterosexual women in general, at least to heterosexual feminists. The dyke event of the year in London in the winter of 1986/7 was a glamour ball, ‘Come Dancing’ at which women once seen in boots, denim and leather appeared in frocks, high heels, lipstick and dècolletage—items they would not have even thought of wearing in the seventies. Now, everything’s changed. Tickets were like gold dust.
