#dressing conservatively

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Ladies Only, Please (by Hannah Alexander)

Ladies Only, Please (by Hannah Alexander)

I never thought I’d be posting this message at this stage in my life. I mean, many of us are no longer in our teens or twenties. Some of us are much older, and would never dream that we might become a stumbling block for men. We’re past that, right? Well, my husband doesn’t think I am, but that’s different.

My friend Deb, in the middle in the picture above, is a genius with style. She always…

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rediscovering a love for conservative dressing (ankle-length skirts with turtlenecks ftw) and scrolling joyfully through Zara's 'women > skirts > midi' section mentally pairing all its offerings with my various jumpers

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...there’s nothing inherently upsetting about a skirt that comes above the knee. The implication in all cases is that the length of a skirt is distracting to teenage boys, or adult men, or whoever. And apparently the solution isn’t to tell these guys to get their minds out of the gutter, the solution is to tell us ladies to cover it up. The solution is to hand us XL men’s T-shirts or basketball shorts and say “this is what you get for wearing your own clothes, clothes that the fashion industry said were sellable, and that your mom let you out of the house in.” It’s teaching us that we are responsible for how men react to our bodies, and that’s a mere hop, skip, and jump away from blaming the victim in sexual assault cases.

Andrea Greb - hellogiggles