THE HEAVY METAL DRESS CODE WEAR IT OR ELSE!

It's interesting to recall—and, for the younger reader, astonishing to find out—that the founding jimmies of heavy metal liked to dress up as women—or, if not liked to, at least agreed to when their managers, most of whom were raging homosexuals (this long before gays went in for the ruggedly masculine and collegiate looks they favor today) urged them to.