Thread: Australia: Do obese models send the wrong message?

Originally Posted by David48atTD

Originally Posted by bnice2me

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Women's appearance is driven by what other women think not what one guy in Thailand thinks. Women dress to impress other women.


We now live in a society where one gets a prize for participating because there should be no losers.
Just because standards overall in everything seem to be dropping to include everyone, doesn't mean it is normal.

How do you know who women dress to impress?

Sadly, this observant post by VocalNeal was overlooked.

FIRSTLY ... Unless (mostly) the woman is working in a service industry where the clientèle are mainly Men, mostly ... Women dress to impress other women.

Sure, your partner might don the fishnets on your birthday, but usually they will pay lip service to our thoughts on how woman dress.

They don't give a Toss what we think about the catwalk models.
Unless, of course, we start comparing our Partners to the said Models.

Although unrelated to the OP, VN makes another good point.

In a similar vein to the Thai Educational system works where almost no-one fails ...
We now live in a society where one gets a prize for participating because there should be no losers.

BTW ... I don't claim any special insights into the Female Mindset and Emotional Armour ...

Nice insights..for a man..

I dress to impress myself first and also to fit into the dress codes at work. When I'm not at work i'm mostly dressed down into comfortable clothes. I noticed in different cultures people dress differently to impress.. for example, in Korea many women and men dress smartly all the time. You see them on the subway dressed to kill. In that society, people are very surface and face is important as you say. Cosmetic surgery is also huge in Korea.

I don't find the people dressed as smartly in China, but you see them wearing a lot of knock off brand name clothes.

In Canada, people don't dress overly smart unless they work in a place that requires them to do so. I find it is also very individual and people all dress differently from dollar store clothing to the brand names.