the shoe conversation. I am trying to not purchase any this year even though I saw a lovely pair of boots recently that have my name on them. As for showing flesh while out an about. Even when I wear corsetry on occasion I have a top of lace or mesh underneath so I don't feel completely exposed. I have never been one for flashing cleavage or wearing short skirts unless at a fancy dress party where I feel uncomfortable all night. I don't understand it. As for male clothing what is with the fluorescent pink stuff around at the moment. I saw a very nice looking young guy wearing a pink t-shirt with matching sneakers a couple of weeks ago and nearly choked on my Cab Sav at the sight. I must be getting old. If Hypercolour t-shirts come back into fashion I am painting the inside of my house black and hiding for a few years until they are designated to the car polishing rag pile. mitsie January 22, 2008 09:54 PM In the history of dress, women opted out of the suit. They weren't denied the suit. Women's dress significantly shifted away from men's dress under Elizabeth I, and remained so through the 18 and 19th centuries. Women really only readopted the suit as we know it today in the mid-1960s. The reason we dress differently is to make ourselves more sexually attractive. Women in general don't want to see half naked me, men do want to