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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These clothes aren’t my style therefore there must be a conspiracy against women!!!!!!!

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It’s not a conspiracy but if you think fashion trends are totally unrelated to social and political trends, you really need to read a book on fashion.  This has been true for maybe 1000 years.  It’s a symbiotic relationship though — the designers try to pick up on underlying social trends, then produce clothes accordingly, which then can have a tendency to magnify those trends.
I mean, look at the wide leg pants and broad shouldered power suit jackets of the 1940s compared with the “get back to the house” shirt dresses and Peter Pan collars of the 1950s compared with the psychedelic prints and shot hemlines of the 60s compared with the let it all hang loose long flowy skirts and macrame looks of the 1970.   These are all expressing and magnifying social/political views of women’s role.  And yes you can kick a$$ in a boardroom in a shirt dress with a Peter Pan collar if you like (lord knows the early suffragists wore some pretty retrograde looks!) but that’s not the message that dress is sending. [/quote]

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