Cover Up, Sweetie
A girl growing up in the modern age is told many things about how she should or shouldn’t look and what she can or cannot wear. The set of expectations and limitations laid out for females at such an early age only leads to increased rates of self-image issues and insecurity – not to mention feeling boxed in and unable to express herself. Wearing a tank top to school and showing her shoulders is not allowed, for it only “instigates” poor behavior from boys. A skirt that reaches any higher than the fingertips is considered indecent. And while a boy is given a free pass on adjusting himself in public, a girl whose hand goes anywhere near her crotch would be immediately judged and ridiculed for un-ladylike behavior. These tropes of girlhood represent the double standards between women and men that are instilled into society. By depicting a man in women’s clothes which hangs in a way that would be unacceptable for a girl while also adorning him in jewelry and stones, I am demonstrating the closed-mindedness of typical gender roles as they relate to fashion.