How Do Women Dress For Comfort And Style?

The modern women faces a dilemma, how do I dress? Basically there
are three ways to dress a naked women. A woman can dress the way her
grandparents dressed, full makeup, full dress and don’t leave the house
until everything is in place and perfect. The second style, if you can
call it a style, started back in the sixties. That was anything goes,
don’t care how I look just let me do my thing. The third style started a
few years ago and is gaining ground all the time. That style is called,
I want to look good but I also want to be comfortable.
You can’t
blame our ancestors for their looking perfect attitude. They went from
being very poor to having money in a short period of time. As the
depression ended with most being broke next came a period of prosperity
like non other. Suddenly they were marking money and just as fast came
textiles and goods like they had never seen before ready to be bought.
They weren’t used to having money to spend on make up, new dresses,
shoes, hats and purses. Like a kid in a candy store they started to buy
these commodities they didn’t have access to before.
Then the war
came along and these women were suddenly needed in the work force, so
they came to work wearing all the new clothes they had and so the don’t
leave home until you have your makeup and clothes perfect came to be the
rule of the day. Don’t want your fellow workers to think you’re not
sophisticated and don’t know what good taste and style you have. Didn’t
make any difference where you were going, you dressed to kill wherever
you went, no matter how much time it took to do the prep work and get
ready. My wife’s mom and aunt live in our guest house and no matter
what, no one gets into the house until they have their makeup on and are
dressed. Usually a two hour process.
By the sixties things were
really changing with old customs and styles thrown to the wind. Out went
the makeup, dressing fit to kill and in came the “if it feels good I’ll
wear it”. I don’t care what I look like, I want to feel great so I’ll
wear it. Coming full circle style was long gone and getting funkie was
the rule of the day for years. All the old barriers of fashion and style
were gone, jeans with holes and t-shirts were the rule of the day.
Of
course this wave didn’t take over the corporate scene until the very
end of the era. Your fortune 500 companies, Amway and a number of the
others held their ground til the turn of the century when jeans Friday
and other catchy style changes slowly started to rule the day. The
corporate bigwigs couldn’t let the wave take over altogether, they
slowly let the comfortable fashion style take over.
The pendulum
still has not swung completely to the fashionably comfortable style but
it’s happening slowly and I don’t think the trend is going to stop. More
and more women are working out of their homes, going in to the office
only when they have to. Dress codes are getting laxer and laxer at the
office. What used to be fashionable at the office yesteryear is being
replaced by clothes that are soft, comfortable, extremely good looking
but most of all comfortable and fun to wear. Clothes you could wear out
on a date, go to work in and lounge around the house in.
The
clothes of the past, the ones that bind, fold and mutilate the flesh are
gone for good being replaced by clothes that look good, are comfortable
to wear and show off your figure with out contorting it.
Look
around you at what the women are wearing. You’ll see clothes like the
Pajama Jeans being worn to every type of event. Comfort is here and
being embraced by one and all it’s not going to leave for quite a while.
Women are fed up with being forced into a designers mold. They want to
be themselves, wear good looking fashionable clothing and at all times
be comfortable. Can’t say I blame them, I sure like to be comfortable.
How about you?