Archives: Of Slink and Slutwear

March 22, 2003

Ready, Set, Slut

Margaret Berry of The Morning News writes a delightful series on women's fashion. The latest entry is Releasing Your Inner Slut.

Do you think slutwear = skankwear? It ain't necessarily so.

Girls who dress inappropriately do so with intent and grave insecurity. They tug at their tops, constantly hike their low-riders, and pretend not to notice that their pants have camel-toed in their crotches. You're not one of them.

Sometimes wishing CAN make it so. Fashion, makeup, scents and other "artificial aids" are among those things that can genuinely help perk up a woman's sense of herself as an erotic being. Slinky underwear -- as long as it's comfortable -- is ideal for the woman who wants to continually remind herself of her sensual nature, but who doesn't want to invite the whole world in on her secret.

But Berry advises going all out:

It's difficult to seem fun and impossible to seem dangerous in a pair of Gap khakis. No one ever felt like purring in a polo shirt.

You're not some milquetoast, wallflower, soccer-mom wannabe, you're a kitty-cat, you're a doll, you're Marilyn Monroe. Dressing sexier will not only change people's perceptions of you, it will alter your idea of yourself.

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