Oh, I know that during my childhood, the 1950s ad 1960s, there were social pressure on women to wear and dress in certain cothes on certain occasion. Dresses and skirts were the expected "norm" at that time. But even then I saw women in the small town I was growing up in(small until the late 1950s) who went "Bohemian" and would defy the rest in order to wear bib-overalls and capris or pedal pushers. But even then these women got away with it.
A boy or man who varied even slightly from norm was look down on severely.
By the 1970s slacks and pants were being accepted almost everywhere for women and by the 1980s no one seemed to care except for some churches and work places. Now????? You don't dare say a thing to a woman about what she decides to wear.
Now my wife does have a uniform restriction for work. She works for a doctor's office and even tough not a nurse she is expected to wear scrubs each day. She relates it to being as if she were wearing her pajamas to work.
Prior to this job, for 20 years she worked in customer relations with a printing company and wore various, really nice "business" outfits (jeans on "casual Fridays though). She a jeans girl through and through the minute she gets home from work then and now.
She basically wears what she wants whenever we go anywhere and do anything.
And I envy her for that.
Yes, I've told her that too.
But she sees no importance in what she wears of doesn't wear.
Only what I wear!
There's little or no understanding as to what I want to wear either.
And most of the people I know have the attitude that "clothes are clothes, who cares."
I guess if clothing hasn't been made important to you in some way in your life you don't care.
That makes being a MIS-MIK just that much harder to do!
Dennis A. Lederle
