Back then, it was cross dressing. As for the comforts of the different gender stereotypes of clothes, as a trans woman, I much prefer the comfort of skirts to pants. As for the petticoats, they were uncomfortable, but they were also mostly worn by upper class women as they oftentimes required an assistant to get into.
Calamity Jane, is a legend from Wild West. She was known as a sharpshooter, raconteur, and frontierswoman. She was known to be a hard-drinking crossdresser as she always preferred to dress like a man. She was one of the most popular characters of the West. This portrait was taken around the 1880s.
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It’s fashioned for a right handed crossdraw