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Suffocation is the Latest Fashion

Everything is so tight.

Jeans, leggings, dresses, shirts, skirts, jackets

and summer wear is even worse and more revealing with

crop tops, shorts, and even shorter skirts and dresses.

How are we all able to breathe?

Victorian fashion had corsets

and those made them faint!

So why does the fashion have to be tight?

Don't get me wrong,

I do like skinny jeans, and tight shirts and dresses

I am a girl after all,

we all give in to the status quo of fashion at times.

But, sizes are even smaller now than they were before.

I haven't gained or lost weight,

my waist size hasn't changed,

nothing has.

Except for the clothes.

Are we trying to make women smaller and thinner

by just shrinking the clothes?

It should not be ¨Survival of the fittest¨

in the dressing rooms.

That isn't cool.

Also, why are the pants so short?

I have long legs, okay,

and because my waist size matches someone who is smaller than me

then that must mean that I am short

according to clothes.

Therefore I have difficulty finding pants

that fit my waist

and my legs.

I am not blind to my surroundings.

Every single girl

Goes. Through. This.

We all have shopping woes,

some worse than others.

We all gain uncomfortable experiences

whether it be from something not fitting,

or from the attention on the streets

that we get for wearing it.

Then of course, don't forget the media!

Remember all those pictures of perfect people

being shoved down our throats

strangling us until we accept the fact

that we should be just like them.

 

Suffocation is the latest fashion,

and we are expected to wear it well.

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Written by
tatiana
27 / F / American
Published
Jan 18, 2015
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You know, I would very much like to have pockets in my jeans...

 © Tatiana

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