Let me turn this question around...
I am walking through Walmart or the grocery store and I see a GG adorned with tattoos, piercings and purple spiked hair, wearing flip-flops, baggy jogging pants and a loose-fitting hoodie to hide all the excess weight that she is carrying from living on a steady diet of junk food.
Are my thoughts as follows (paraphrasing deebra's questions)?:
1/ acceptance, no big deal, anything goes today; it looks better than a man with his pants below his butt.
2/ discuss
3/ I like the look, she's neat, clean and presenting very well; some shapeless, baggy casual clothes fit a "curvy" woman's body better than others; most men dress sloppy these days, so why not women?
4/ Women are finally realizing that they are just as smart and can act just as entitled as men, and have every right to lower their standards of dress by trying to copy the types of clothes we typically wear. Comfort rules!
Point being - if women these days don't give a hoot about how they present themselves compared to times past - and woe to anybody who tries to "shame" them for being who they are, what they look like, and expressing their true inner selves - I'll be darned if I let them judge me in turn for the way I present myself in public when out en femme.
I wear "traditional" women's' clothes (skirts, dresses, hose, heels etc.) when out and about because that happens to work for me, and if some of them want to judge me for that (and maybe on some level even resent the fact that I might be showing them up and raising the bar for them in the process), then so be it - their problem, not mine.
