Othello--Desdemona costuming--please read!! need opinions and help.?

your teacher needs his head examined - if the whole play is done as a contemporary play - you could get away with it , but Desdemona is very(!) feminine, though in Shakespeare's time the role was played by a young boy - The fact that she is rapturously in love with this Black man's adventures, that she sings a song like "Willow, willow" - no Tom Boy would be caught dead even knowing lovelorn music - nor would she have a maid! She always addresses Othello as "my Lord" - and no tomboy would be in a hurry to "make the beast with two backs" - which alone certifies that she recognizes herself as female, and in need of the fulfillment only a man can give - Plus of course, the custom of the period would never have tolerated a woman in man's clothing (this only shows up in later dramas where the girl has to be disguised to protect her) - Plus, gauge her father's attitude and think if for one second he would tolerate "mannish" behavior in a daughter when he is trying to pawn her off on a politically influential Count, most certainly for his own benefit - a common practice at the time, and the father's responsibility - and it is her innocence and tenderness in sharp contrast to the life he has led, that makes Othello fall for her - at the opening of the final scene, is she not brushing her luxuriant hair? - no Tom boy there -