I'm not a hermit. I do actually leave my house. I just genuinely don't really care what other random people are wearing or doing. I can be responsible for me (and of course, my children). Focusing on the flaws and shortcomings of others, would just be a way for me to not have to work as hard on myself.
And maybe that's not entirely true..I do notice things about dress--I notice when people are dressed inappropriately for their surroundings--being formal in an informal setting makes you stand out like a sore thumb, likewise being informal in a formal setting. (Both of which are just as immodest as wearing too little clothing).
I also notice shoes--it just kills me that women still subject their bodies to wearing heels--there are few fashions which do as much harm to women's bodies as heels--they throw your pelvis way out of alignment, and remove your body from bearing weight on the hips, pelvis and legs--leading to prolapses, urinary incontinence, arthritis, and osteoporosis, pronation of the knees and feet just to name a few things. I also notice panty hose--which again are just heinously bad for women's health--they restrict circulation and well, um, airflow to your girl parts. Those two clothing items just make me sad and lament that we are still so hung up on our ideas of proper women's dress and beauty to the point where it actually harms women. Guess that probably makes me a radical feminist.
I hate that quote from Ms. Hammond you posted...it's just inflammatory. Has she made some sort of study of prostitute fashions of the past? Or is it just simply more of the "Oh the 1950's were just so much better than now...." which is just a crock. It sounds so appealing, to long for the days of yore---but there were obviously some very fundamental problems and issues...or the 1960's (those times of Babylon) would never have happened. There are problems in every time.
Women are still not treated with dignity and respect based on their personhood, one of the biggest reason being that we are still entrenched in being objectified by men, and well heck--even by one another. In the parameters of this discussion--a man saying what women "ought" to wear--is blatant objectification. It's just a matter of wanting women to conform to a set of male-produced standards. Men want women to dress a certain way, AND want to blame women for their own inability to achieve self-mastery.
I honestly don't understand how women can bear the onus for this. As with so very much--what we're called to is mutual respect. As long as we have people telling us that they'll only respect us if we conform to their standards of dress and beauty--we will NEVER achieve mutual respect. And quite frankly, it keeps us focused on the realm of externals, rather than the much more difficult internal.
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