fashion show

I'm wearing men's shoes. Women's shoes are seemingly intentionally uncomfortable and always less than durable. This is the case with all women's apparel when compared to men's.
According to the signals given by clothing manufacturers, women don't need to have durable pants or rugged shoes. Why would we? We should be in the kitchen, where it's safe and warm. That must be why men's hooded sweatshirts and cots are so much thicker and warmer than women's. If we females find ourselves crossing damp terrain in our dainty footwear, surely a man will throw his heavier-than-ours coat on the puddle, so that we can cross it, unscathed. Right? If we're chilled, that same man can provide us with an additional coat wrapped around our shoulders. Chivalry is still going on in American society.
A female's options are limited in chosing a clothing style that is both functional and affordable. Even rugged athletic women's footwear, were it affordable, is typically colored with at least some small shades of pink piping or some other femenizing, and hideous feature.
Perhaps it is th lack of viable choices in the wardrobe department that leads to so many middle-aged women simply giving up. Somewhere along the way we'll stop caring aout our body's physical health and become more concerned with what garnishes we're applying to it: nail polish, expensive clothes, highlighted hair-and none of it will be done because our tastes run that way. We'll doll ourselves up to feel better about ourselves-because other people will find us more attractive when we do this to ourselves.
Or we begin earlier by deliberately trashing our bodies with an eating disorder, or unrealistic work-out routine that takes up our time (the only amenity we really have in this life) that could be used for personal growth-intellectually, or spiritually. We become obsessed with our bodies' shapes and sizes so that we can slide them into that skimpy, flimsy, designer outfit.
And who runs the arm of the media responsible for guiding the female population towards their emphasized "ideal appearance"? It is a group of middle-aged women and gay men at the helm of almost every fshion and merchandizing firm and magazine across the globe. We'll kill ourselves to look 'fabulous' according to these people's standards, believing that we're appealing to the opposite sex (that's the ultimate goal, right?) and base our self worth on how well we achieve in that capacity. Hmmm.