I'm becoming the anti-WSD rider...

[GLC1968]

I think WSD is awesome! Men's clothes certainly don't fit me, but with my short legs, long torso, and horribly wide feet women's hardware and footwear don't work for me at all. I'd probably wear men's running shoes if anyone made them in sizes small enough to fit. Thank heavens most cycling shoes start in smaller sizes in the men's styles!

I'll just ditto all of this. Me too.

(I do now have a WSD saddle because manufacturer's are finally learning that not all women have wide sit bones and that sometimes those of us with women shapped bodies actually do need narrower saddle options!)

[surgtech1956]

ZoomZoom, I'm with you. I had a WSD and it didn't fit me right, now I have a men's frame. I buy whatever fits/I like, I tend to buy mens tops, just because I don't like how skimpy some women's tops are(IMO), at least on me. I will also buy men's shoes sometimes, I wear a women's size 11. My everyday clothes are the same, a mix of mens & womens.

[Koronin]

Let's see I have women's shorts. I do have two women's jerseys, but the jersey's I typically wear are men's jerseys (they fit better) all my gloves are men's. My saddle on my road bike is a men's. My husband's old saddle is on my mountain bike right now and so far it's better than anything else, but not right...still looking on that one. My road bike is a men's frame and my new one when I can afford one will men a men's. The issue with that is going to be finding whichever Madone comes in a 47cm frame when I can afford to buy one. (Then figuring one which Trek dealer is going to be willing to work with me to get me the bike I want). Oh my shoes are women's shoes. With shoes I have to have women's. Depending on the brand I either wear a size 6 1/2 or a 7.
My everyday clothes are also a mix of men's and women's although most of my work shirts are women's, and actually the majority of those are the Columbia brand.

[Kathi]

One of my biggest disappointments was my Ride the Rockies jersey. Part of the ride fee includes the jersey. Only men's sizes were available. I had a discussion with the organizer who said the men's xs was sure to fit me and it just wasn't feasible to offer a woman's cut. The jersey could have been a dress. It came down to my knees, the sleeves were past my elbows and the shoulders hit mid arm. I wound up giving the jersey to my bike shop. The next year the ride offered women's cut in the jersey.

I envy woman who can chose between unisex or woman's specific clothing. I have no jersey's from any of the bike tours or rides I've been on because the cut of the jersey's, even woman's, are usually too big or xs is not offered. On tours I wear my generic Colorado or bike shop jersey's while other woman wear these neat jersey's from the tours they've been on.

I don't make it a habit to shop the kids dept but I found that girls Under Armour shorts fit me better than their women's as well as some REI girls clothing. It's getting so I can't find shoes in my size and kids are to wide. When I do find a shoe that fits I have to pay full price to assure that I get it. Fortunately, I'm retired so I don't need much in the way of casual clothes.

[zoom-zoom]

Kathi, what's crazy is that my MIL said that even RAGBRAI(!) doesn't offer women's cut jerseys?! Seriously...that's insane, to me. An event that big only offers jerseys that will fit half the participants well?