The Art of the Drag Queen

The Drag queen: The 'He' that appears like a 'She,' regularly blurring the lines everywhere they go. What is so specific around the drag queen? Is it the shiny locks of brunette/blond/auburn/metallic blue? The glitter from there sequence laced, rhinestone encrusted dress? Or the truth they have adequate bling from all their faux diamonds to safely send up their personal dazzling light show and communicate with satellites passing more than head with a flick of a wrist and shimmy of a hip? And let us not overlook the 7 inch platform heels, these attractive footwear that take critical talent to maneuver in. So the query: What is the distinction amongst a drag queen and a guy in a dress?

The Drag Queen (or female impersonator) is neither a uncomplicated phenomenon nor is she isolated to the twentieth century. Men dressing as girls can be traced back to the very origins of theatre: the earliest record of a dramatic production featuring 'drag' was in Egypt about 2000 BCE. Rapid forward to modern day day, and lets speak around the actual art.

Know your camp

The attire is defined by the style of the 'camp' a drag queen follows. Camp is a notion defined as self consciously artificial and extravagant, in style, attire, make up, gesture and dialogue. And they are divided into two categories: Higher and Low camp.

Low Camp

Drag Queen artists of this style will go out of their way to break the illusion and mock what ever style they are imitating. An instance would be my buddy who went to a fund raiser dressed as Brittany spears. Did absolutely nothing to conceal his chest hair or hide his apparent muscle tissues although toting a purse with a cabbage patch doll with a red bull can duct-tapped to its mouth. This modern day option usually tends to make drag queens themselves the butt of humor.

Higher Camp

Requires a far a lot more severe method, this style tends to idealize rather than criticize. It goes for precise style, dress, mimicry and mannerism. This style the drag artist identifies with the diva. And instance of this style can be discovered here Although the young man in the video is not dressed as Beyonce or even attempting to look like a lady, he is epitomizing every other aspect of Higher camp there is.

There is also a style where components of Higher camp are combined with self identity and a distinctive drag persona emerges (Rupaul is an instance of this).

So that is the 101 drag queen fundamentals, subsequent time you are out and see a drag artist, see if you can tell the distinction.

All for now.

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