Dresses, why are there such a thing called dresses? Why is it that girls are expected to wear dresses and skirts? Why were they invented in the first place? Can’t women in those days wear pants too? Pants are so much more convenient and not to mention comfortable. Girls can run and jump as much as they want in pants and shorts.
As a kid, I stopped wearing those dresses and skirts when I reached a certain age, around 8 or 9 I think? I found shorts much more comfortable than those dresses and skirts and it didn’t help that I was quite a tomboy when I was younger. I had successfully avoided wearing any dresses or skirts with exception of my school uniform. That couldn’t be helped.
Every Chinese New Year, my aunts would make a fuss as to why was I in jeans again and not in a skirt. Does it really matter? I don’t think so. But to them, they already stereotyped that girls must wear dresses and skirts. It really did annoy the heck out of me that I had to hear that question every year. But, I had to bear with it. There was nothing I can do about it. So I just let them be and went along with my own business and activities. Nobody bothered me about the topic anymore.
That is, until..
Now that I’m older (last year to be exact), my friends were insisting that I wore a dress to an annual dinner held by the school’s board. I didn’t want to, I wasn’t used to the idea of me in a dress (and I still am not). So they took me shopping for a dress and a pair of (killer) heels. Wore them once, and I don’t think I’m going to touch them again.
Oh, how I miss being a kid when I can use my age as an excuse to wear jeans and t-shirt to dinners!!!!
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