This'll raise the tone:
I went to Gounod's Faust last night. The role of Siebel, Marguerite's lover, is played by a woman (because it calls for a high voice) in male drag. "He" showed no bulge at all, making it harder to think of her as a man, or if as a man, a castrated one.
Do you think women in trouser roles (Octavian in Rosenkavalier is another) should pack?
pro: as above, it makes them more realistic as men
con: it draws undue attention to their genitalia, and we've already had to suspend our disbelief in regard to their voices