Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site abnjh.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!abnjh!heretyk From: heretyk@abnjh.UUCP (S. Heretyk) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Correlation: mode of dress vs. perceived ability Message-ID: <447@abnjh.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 08:40:06 EST Article-I.D.: abnjh.447 Posted: Wed Feb 8 08:40:06 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 01:41:33 EST Organization: ATTIS, NJ Lines: 19 Betty Lehan Harragan has an interesting chapter on dress in "Games Mother Never Taught You". Basically don't dress sexy, buy shoes you can walk in (foot crippling shoes have been a favorite method to keep women in their place), buy clothes with pockets (get rid of your pocketbook), and save your perfume for night when it can perform its function of making you a desirable sex object. Sometimes it's hard to find a blouse that you can't see through - how can women be respected if they walk around showing off their underwear? Also high collar blouses are in style which look nice under a jacket as opposed to open collars. Also it makes a replacement for a tie - as do necklaces (not funky ones). On women wearing ties Betty Harrigan states "Never wear a man's tie. Never, never, never. A man's tie is a penis symbol. No woman with any self-respect wants to walk around advertising 'I'm pretending I have a penis'" Shelley Heretyk