Woman’s Clothes Emoji

A woman's blouse or top, rendered as a short-sleeved, scoop-necked shirt. Apple and Samsung show it in pink; Google, Twitter, and WhatsApp render it in purple. Approved in Unicode 6.0 (2010) as U+1F45A WOMAN'S CLOTHESU+1F45A WOMAN'S CLOTHES, part of the original Emoji 0.6 Japanese carrier set.

👚 is the generic "women's top" emoji, a deliberate counterpart to 👕 (t-shirt, which tends to read as masculine by default despite Unicode's best efforts). It stands in for blouses, shirts, tunics, and camisoles of any cut. In practice, the emoji gets used heavily in fashion content, shopping hauls, OOTD captions, and "new top from @brand" posts. Less glamorous than 👗, less formal than 🧥 coat, 👚 is the workhorse emoji of daily women's fashion content.

There's also an ongoing debate about whether the emoji should exist at all. Google's emoji designer Jennifer Daniel has argued that when specific details (like a dress or blouse) are added to a generic person symbol, the default becomes gendered, which forces a binary that doesn't match how most clothing actually works. The 👚/👕 split is a relic of 2010 emoji design. Google's modern push toward gender-inclusive defaults has made some variants of these emojis more neutral, but the gendered versions remain because they're part of the Unicode standard.

👚 is one of the less-glamorous clothing emojis, and that's exactly its strength: it appears where 👗 (dress) would feel over-formal and 👕 (t-shirt) would read as too casual or too male-default.

OOTD content. The default "outfit of the day" emoji for tops on Instagram and TikTok. "New blouse from [@brand] 👚✨." The emoji punctuates thousands of daily fashion posts.

Shopping hauls and try-ons. "Zara haul 👚🛍️" or "H&M try-on 👚." Fast-fashion content creators reach for 👚 when the haul includes tops, blouses, or camisoles.

Laundry and cleaning posts. "Laundry day 👚🧺🫧." The domestic side of the emoji. Pinterest mom content, cleaning creators, and organization TikTok all use it.

Retail and resale. Used on Depop, Poshmark, Mercari, Vinted listings: "Selling this 👚 for $15, size M." The resale apps have built their own shorthand in which 👚 explicitly means "top" as a product category.

Blouse trend moments. Summer 2025 was publicly declared the season of the "pretty blouse" by fashion editors, after several years of tank-top minimalism. 👚 spiked alongside 🎀 (bow) as coquette and romantic styling returned.

Gender-coded styling. Some users deliberately use 👚 to signal feminine-coded styling, especially in contexts where gender expression matters (drag creators, trans and nonbinary fashion content, and anyone reclaiming the pink-coded aesthetic).

Usage is consistently higher on Instagram and Pinterest than on X. On TikTok, 👚 appears heavily in haul videos, try-ons, and fashion challenge posts.

👚 was approved in Unicode 6.0 in October 2010, one of the first batch of clothing emojis carried over from Japanese carrier sets. The original NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, and SoftBank emoji sets all included variants of a pink/red women's blouse alongside a blue men's shirt. The pairing persisted in Unicode's standard: 👚 as "Woman's Clothes" and 👕 as "T-Shirt" (which read as a male default on most platforms).

That pairing has become controversial. Jennifer Daniel, Google's emoji designer, has publicly argued that adding small gendered details to generic symbols creates unintended default-to-male assumptions. When a plain t-shirt (👕) reads as "a man's shirt" and requires an explicit "woman's" counterpart (👚) to get a feminine reading, the emoji set encodes a worldview where masculine is the default human form.

Google's modern design philosophy has pushed toward gender-inclusive defaults on profession emojis (firefighter, doctor, scientist), but the clothing split remains because it's codified in Unicode. The design hasn't changed meaningfully in 15 years: Apple's render is still the original pink short-sleeved blouse with a scoop neckline. Samsung is nearly identical. Google's purple version is the major outlier.

The naming convention itself is a relic. "Woman's Clothes" is awkwardly generic, given that the emoji shows one specific garment (a blouse), not "clothes." Microsoft's internal design notes reportedly debated calling it "woman's top" or "blouse" but settled on the Unicode-standard name. The Unicode CLDR short name is "womans clothes" (no apostrophe for historical reasons, though modern documentation corrects this).

1. 1999Shigetaka Kurita's NTT DoCoMo emoji set includes women's clothing pictograms that inform the later Unicode design
2. 2010👚 approved in Unicode 6.0 as U+1F45A WOMAN'S CLOTHES↗
3. 2015Added to Emoji 1.0, available cross-platform on iOS, Android, Windows
4. 2019Google's Jennifer Daniel publicly argues that emoji defaults encode gender assumptions, triggering broader emoji-design debate↗
5. 2024"Pretty blouse" trend declared by fashion editors as quiet-luxury backlash against tank-top minimalism
6. 2025Zara, H&M, and COS all feature blouses as a lead category in spring collections, pushing 👚 usage up on shopping content

👚 is one of the more globally generic clothing emojis, but usage patterns vary.

United States & UK: Dominant use is shopping and OOTD content. Depop, Poshmark, and Vinted drove heavy adoption in 2020-2023 as Gen Z embraced secondhand resale apps. 👚 became part of the resale listing shorthand.

Japan & Korea: Moderate usage for fashion content. J-fashion and K-fashion Instagram accounts use it alongside 👖 (jeans), 🧥 (coat), and 👗 (dress). The pink/purple color coding matches broader kawaii aesthetics.

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh: Often used alongside or instead of 🥻 for Western-style tops worn with traditional bottoms or as daily wear. Indian fashion creators use 👚 for kurti-style tops, though the kurti doesn't have a dedicated emoji.

Latin America: Strong use on Instagram and WhatsApp for outfit photos and shopping posts. Brazil and Mexico have active reseller ecosystems (Enjoei, Mercado Libre) that drove adoption.

Middle East: Used in fashion and beauty content, often alongside modest-fashion styling posts. The emoji's general feminine-coded rendering works for modest-fashion contexts where the shape of the top matters more than the cut.

Africa: Growing use alongside Ankara-print fashion content from Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya. African fashion creators often pair 👚 with 🎨 to signal pattern-driven styling.

Gender-inclusive contexts: Drag creators, trans and nonbinary fashion content, and LGBTQ+ fashion accounts often use 👚 deliberately to signal feminine-coded styling, sometimes in tension with its coded genderedness. The emoji has become a small battleground in larger conversations about how emoji encode gender defaults.

• •👚 is part of the original Emoji 0.6 set from Unicode 6.0 (2010), meaning it's been on smartphones since the iPhone's second emoji wave in 2011.
• •Apple and Samsung render 👚 in pink. Google, Twitter, and WhatsApp render it in purple. It's one of the more color-inconsistent emoji across platforms.
• •Google emoji designer Jennifer Daniel has argued publicly that adding feminine details to a generic symbol (like 👚 versus 👕) creates unintended masculine defaults, turning 👚 into a minor emoji-design debate.
• •On Depop and similar resale apps, 👚 is an informal category shorthand for "top." Sellers mix emojis with prices and sizes: "👚 $15 size M."
• •The pretty blouse trend of summer 2025 ended roughly five years of tank-top-dominated fashion content, with Zara, H&M, and COS all making blouses their lead spring/summer category.
• •The Unicode CLDR short name is "womans clothes" without an apostrophe, a historical typography artifact that's never been officially corrected.
• •Samsung's early Touchwiz versions of 👚 featured a neckline that was more revealing than Apple's; subsequent One UI updates brought it closer to Apple's design.
• •The blouse shape shown in 👚 roughly matches the "classic pink crop tee" style that dominated 2010s US women's fashion, before the emoji design has had a chance to visually drift in later decades.

• •Depop and resale apps (2015-present), Depop, Poshmark, Vinted, Mercari, and the broader secondhand-fashion ecosystem turned clothing emojis into product-category tags. 👚 is ubiquitous in listing titles.
• •Fashion haul TikTok, Creators like Remi Bader and Ashley Jones built followings on try-on hauls that regularly deploy 👚 as a caption emoji.
• •Zara / H&M / Shein content, The "new-in from @brand" genre is arguably the biggest single use case for 👚, with thousands of daily posts tagging new blouse arrivals.
• •Clean girl / old money / coquette aesthetics, Each of these Gen Z aesthetic movements has its own preferred 👚 styling: clean girl prefers white silk slips, old money prefers oversized oxford blouses, coquette prefers ruffled and bow-trimmed tops.
• •Pinterest mom content, "Outfit inspo for moms" and "capsule wardrobe" Pinterest pins lean heavily on 👚 alongside 👖, 👠, and 🧥.