It is teasingly short and sweet. Fabulously, it both covers and reveals quite well. See girls put on it, they look hot. They command attention and make the mouths of men drip drops. The mini-skirt or more stylish mini; a skirt with a hemline well above the knees. Normally, it is halfway up the thighs and no longer than 10 cm below the behind. It is such awesome an invention that despite meeting a strong sense of disproval – at times even violence - from some quarters of our society especially the oldies, no fashion geek sees any signs of it disappearing. The bone of contention has been, as those opposed to the mini claim; the mini is a corrupting influence from the west. They want it banned. They don’t even care about the implications that that would have to the fashion and design industry.
It is rather ironic though when you see the nudity of women who parade in bikinis; entertaining the audience during our respective cultural dances and festivals. You ask what our traditional leaders imply when they showcase nude women in dances yet denounce the
Why should one detest a ‘local breed’ modeling in a short skirt? A wife sitting beside her husband dressed in a short skirt or doing some chores feeling chic, comfortable, and attractive would be no discomfort. Wound a damsel not be cutest in a skirt well above her knees won over black leggings and high boots? The power of the mini is that it prickles on your soft emotive part. It gets your attention; be it a man or a woman. You find a granny at a book shop sticking to their best magazine on which the cover is creamed with smart and up-to-the-minute models in mini-skirts. Why should they glue to something they detest so much?
The truth is the mini got to be accepted and integrated otherwise it can hardly be wiped from the eyes and minds of our daily lives.
The drive towards a more robust fashion and design industry needs a market. This demand can be effectively done if individuals are open-minded to various products the industry can offer yet this has to do with a change of our mindset. Unfortunately, our minds and attitudes to fashion are culture-laden. Any change in normsmostly occurs at a larger society long before similar changes happen in specific places, in this case in fashion and design. All actors need to be freed. We need not change-resistant folks who stand in the way due to their wayward stereotypes.
The mini-skirt is just one of the many aspects of fashion and design that have suffered due to such change-resistant individuals.
Understandably, men may indeed police women bodies and no person can condone women wearing stuff that exposes parts that need cover. That’s loud and clear enough. But mini-skirts and rape! That’s bullshit. See, kids are being raped; guys are being rape even oldies. This is not because they are putting on the mini. This is because some lunatic, low life folks cannot control their sexual drives and feel nothing harsh will be done to them.
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