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From: misscraps@aol.com
Date sent: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:11:51 EDT
Subject: [vpFREE] re Jean Scott's column on revealing clothes
I too am appalled and sometimes amazed by current dress I see on both women
and men. Wearing short short short short skirts to a nightclub is one
thing, but I'm seeing those tiny skirts and backless backs and such like in
the middle of the day. I really wanted to stop a 2 women I saw one day in
the Ladies Room and just ask "Are you prostitutes, because I've never seen
anything like that before in the middle of the day?" but kept my mouth shut.
I actually was really curious as to why any grown women would wear what I
saw! (Some indescribable clothes that seemed more akin to skimpy, weird
bathing suits than anything else - yet they had just come out of seeing a
mid-day show!)
Then I saw a woman wearing just a man's shirt, which was amazing enough,
as was the fact that it barely covered her bottom and crotch. The same day
I saw a woman whose dress/skirt-length was so low that as she walked
through the Venetian I did see her crotch (and I don't think there were panties
on down there!). So after seeing them, the 2 in the Ladies Room in their
weirdo skimpy outfits seemed models of decorum!
And then there are the men with the underwear showing. Really their dress
is pretty laughable. Usually they wear long sweatshirts or other shirts
pulled down so you can't totally see how much the underwear is hanging out -
but you can guess because of how low the crotch of the pants are compared to
the man's legs and how baggy the whole pants/jeans are. But one day last
week while riding the bus, there was a guy whose jeans were so far down his
entire underwear showed!
It sounds like Hard Rock has the worse of the worse. I haven't seen
anything quite that bad at the trendy Palms. I hope I don't see that "new
fashion statement" of the zipper pulled down and the flaps pulled back.
So I have to agree with most of what Jean said. However I was shocked
about her rape comments which were either poorly worded or just downright
wrong. No matter what a woman (or man) might be wearing - it isn't an
invitation to rape. Whether someone is on a nude or topless beach or wearing a
too-exposed bikini (or brief on a man), or wearing a skimpy duds in a casino
their clothes or lack thereof are intended as an invitation for attention,
but not rape.
Teasing men by words, deeds, or in this case dress, when a woman doesn't
mean it is nasty, but it doesn't mean that "no isn't no." But women who do
dress like that certainly should realize that their skimpy desire is a
turn-on to men, and is obviously intended to attract men who may be more
interested in sex than talk. I really think they realize that.