We are What We Wear

             She walks into the room, head held high: confident. Her long, blond hair is flowing past her shoulders like a golden fire. Her lip gloss is shimmering with every step as she finally takes a seat. Unfortunately, from the male perspective, her beauty wasn't the first thing he noticed about her. Her clothing spoke volumes; her low-cut shirt and short shorts sent signals off in his mind that he could not control. What is this girl really like? She is a truly innocent girl who thought nothing about the message that her clothes would send, how the opposite sex would view it, or how it would make her feel about herself.
             Over the last few decades, the style for the ladies was to show their stomach. While the times have changed, so have the styles; when the shirts were getting longer so they would cover up the stomach, the neckline got shorter as well as the shorts! With more flesh being exposed other items on a woman's body are exposed as well. With so many role models being in the "star-light" and wearing all of this type of clothing, young women see it as "okay" for them to do the same. The downfall to this is that they do not think about what it does to the opposite sex.
             Every morning when a girl wakes up, she makes a statement with her attire. Spending a lot of time and money on her hair, putting on make-up, wearing push-up and water bras, wearing high heels to make her legs look longer, stockings to make her legs look nicer, wearing clothes that show off her cleavage and putting on perfumes to make her smell nice has become a national obsession. Teenagers and women do all of these things to make themselves more attractive to men; but, when they show interest in the physical traits that they emphasize, the men are considered shallow, and only interested in one thing. With men being visual creatures, the girls are seen as "easy". They are not seen for the women that they are; they...

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