Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) relates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) has uttered curses for those who try to resemble women, and for those women who try to resemble men.
(Bukhari)
The creation of men and women is not on the same pattern as there lies a palpable difference between the two. Similarly, the psychology of both the sexes is also different. Man represents strength and protectiveness while woman weakness and domesticity. This difference in the nature and psychology of the two sexes demands that their dresses, their appearances and their behaviour should also be different from one another.
Opposed to this, attempts made by men to look like women and vice versa amount to fighting against nature and for this reason they attract the wrath of Allah.
The western civilization which encourages the blind following of fashion has created such a tendency in women to resemble men and in men to resemble women that nowadays we can see in public men looking like semi-women and women looking like semi-men; sometimes it becomes difficult to ascertain whether a certain person passing by is a man or woman.
In their attempts to look like women, men first shave their beard, imitate women in their clothes and even in ornamentation. They have also started braiding their hair. Likewise, women have also don men’s dresses andget their hair trimmedlike those of men. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) has cursed such men and women.