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It's a pretty reasonable thing to not want people to think you're a homo, especially when you are mostly attracted to women. He doesn't like the idea of being seen that way which is why he isn't open about it.
I'm surprised people pay attention enough to me to derive this. It's not really something that's elaborated upon in his story. I had considered touching upon it with his Airbnb host Edward during his main storyline as well as with Dasein during the scrapped Kingdom arc, but I decided against it because I just really have no interest in depicting romance. At most there would be some passing comments/thoughts which hint at it. Any characters that Alex would actually be significantly attracted to belong to other users. IYKYK
Alex's relationship with the crop top is pretty interesting; canonically, he only wears them within the confines of his own home. He's got a pretty good amount of them, some of them are plain, most of them have some kind of band design. The reason he wears them is because he likes to sleep in them and feel the blankets on his stomach, while in the day, he likes to feel sexy, and it's just very comfortable. He would never wear them outside of his home because he doesn't want to be called gay/femboy even though he's not. I like to think that his expression of band crop top + sweatpants keeps an edge to him that prevents it from being too feminine; at his core, he just really likes his body. If someone somehow found out, he'd probably beat the shit out of them.
In both Fantasyland and CyberPoke 2077, he takes advantage of more androgynous, lax social norms to wear a crop top without much issue. In any timeline, that's pretty much as feminine as his clothing is going to get, he doesn't wear shorts or any other articles of clothing associated with women, as Bibi once said, shorts are out of style on men. I took inspiration from Aether and Ayerscarpe, respectively, and notably, Alex is much taller than both