What clothes do you hate wearing? Anything that comes off as soon as you walk through the door? I hate wearing a bra and tights. So these items have remained in the drawers during lockdown. I hate the thought of them going back on. And I have hardly worn shoes.
Being uncomfortable all day might put you in a bad mood or make you depressed.
Sometimes do you dress for style rather than comfort? Do you squeeze into those skinny jeans so you cannot breath all day? Do you have uncomfortable shoes, suit, bra, tights or it might be your wedding day and you are squeezing into a very uncomfortable dress (I have heard many brides say they cannot breathe or move – why feel uncomfortable on the most important day of your life?). Do you wear a Sari (I always thought they looked uncomfortable as the shawl often keeps falling down) or a burka that you find uncomfortable?
200 years ago women usually wore corsets made of tightly woven fabric or leather, with channels running throughout them in which vertical ribs were inserted, often made with whale bone (although ivory and wood were also used). They were usually tightened by laces which the maid would pull or even tightened using a machine. In some periods the fashion was to look totally flat and in others they pushed up the bust. The women’s ribs were displaced, their lungs were squashed, some organs were compressed against the spine and others were shoved down into the lower abdomen. In addition to making it hard to breathe, hearts struggled to pump and guts struggled to digest what little food they could get down. Thankfully we do not have to do this in 2020!!
I looked into the history of the bra. Wikipedia says “The history of bras is inextricably intertwined with the social history of the status of women, including the evolution of fashion and changing views of the female body.” From the 14th century, corsets pushed the breasts up. In the 19th century, bras replaced the corset but large scale commercial production did not begin until the 1930s. In 1932, the S.H. Camp and Company correlated the size and pendulousness of a woman’s breasts to letters of the alphabet: A, B, C and D. In 2020 many women are wearing bras with underwires to push up our breasts. Is this comfortable? Why are we doing it?
And who wears magic pants or G-strings? I seem to get adverts about magic pants on Facebook every day. I admit I have some and wear them to events but I cannot wait to get them off. Mind you – it is not that easy. What about those who wear G-strings – are they comfortable?
Do not start me on the row about high heels! I admit I own a few pairs but I hardly ever where them. And when I do, I am so uncomfortable. I have discussed this many times over the years and some women say they love the way they make them feel and they do not find them too uncomfortable. It is rumoured that some companies insist on female staff wearing heels. A few years ago a London receptionist was sent home from work for refusing to wear heels. Nicola Thorp wore flats to work on her first day at the finance company, PwC. She was hired by recruitment company Portico and staff there told her that she had to wear 2-4 in heels to work at PwC. She was laughed at when she suggested that the men should wear heels.
What clothes have you ditched during lockdown?
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