Do you agree with this comment:
Hell, pain and starvation is 90% of womens fashion!
No.
No. I know a lot of women that look teriffic and are far from starving and not in any pain.
No, 90% is what fads decree. Of course some women do become anorexic over this, but that is certainly not 90%. You get slightly closer with high heeled shoes, but still not 90%.
[semi-tangental]
And the remaining 10% that isn’t fad is fortunately the “fitting the lines of the clothes to accentuate the good bits and hide the bad” as fashion properly should be.
[okay, tangental]
Of course I think that regardless of what you’re wearing, you should be able to climb a tree if need be…but I grew up in the woods (and have climbed trees in a suit.)
I wouldn’t give it 90%, but I’d give it a solid 45%. If you count working out, sitting in a chair for an hour getting your hair done, squeezing into jeans that don’t fit so well this week, dieting (which not all, but many, fashionable-looking women do), waxing, shaving, plucking, cuticle maintenance, etc., it’s not exactly a waltz through the roses. But hey…you get used to it.
Okay, I guess 90% is a little high but taking into account things like high healed shoes, pericing, foot wraping, all the diets I would still say pain and suffering makes up a large part of womens fashion. Well, certianly more than mens.
You beat me to it, Kalhoun!
If you define “fashion” as Cosmopolitain magazine, then I agree with the statement.
However, if by “fashion” you mean the average woman going out looking great, then no, not at all. I don’t starve, and the only suffering I do is if I wear my very high heels, which is rare. And I always look good.
Given how unflatteringly many women dress in the DC area, I’d say it’s only about 10%. YMMV.
Yeah. Political women generally look like political men, but they wear more pink. Ladies, lose those ugly-ass suits already. Looking dowdy doesn’t make you look smarter…it just makes you look dowdy.
Agreed that there’s Fashion, and there’s what Real Women Wear.
I used to fear fashion because I thought it meant wearing uncomfortable things and wasting an inordiate amount of time shopping and primping. And if you jump in to dressing like a grown-up, there is a learning curve where you have to spend more time (and money) than you might like on this crap, and you buy clothes that it turns out are uncomfortable or unflattering, but you end up still wearing them because you’re stubborn and/or cheap (or maybe that’s just me) but after a while you build up a basic wardrobe of comfortable clothes and shoes that look decent, and can just add new things as you find pieces you really like, and the benefits in the long run of a better professional appearance and more confidence outweigh the hassles.
There are certain things I don’t compromise on. For example, my shoes all have serious tread on them. (I nearly went ass-over-applecart in dress shoes on a floor wet with tracked-in snow last winter—while carrying my laptop and a piece of expensive demo equipment.) And if you’re going to wear ugly shoes, they might as well be comfortable, too, I figger.
But I will admit that I pluck my eyebrows (which doesn’t hurt that much; mostly it’s just tedius) and spend up to 10 minutes on makeup every morning, which I think is my greatest concession to fashion. I diet and exercise for health reasons. Having a healthy heart and circulatory system is a hell of a lot more important to me than looking good. But I haven’t been hiding the improvements to my appearance under a bushel, I’ll admit. 
no.
For me, I’d say a solid 30% (getting the hair done, brows waxed, wearing high heels). For most women- my age at least- I’d say around 65%.
If by women’s fashion you mean what women put men through then yeah.
That is so refreshing to hear, thanks!
What Antigen said. I think that statement is wrong for nearly all women. Meth models, yeah.
If your talking about runway fashion, well they aren’t made to just sell to models.
Some women are naturally built that way and some have to work really hard to get that way. Also some have the means to afford them.
No not even slightly.
Fashion is not style.
I’m also somewhat confused by the gender division, given that a suit/shirt/tie/proper shoes are not the most comfortable thing to wear in an office with the thermostat hovering around 80.