Has it ever
occurred to you that as you get dressed daily, people actually size you up to
their personal standards of measurements, and then tag you as they deem fit? Well in
Nigeria, it has always been the status quo to judge a book by its cover, in
every area. And sometimes it seems it’s actually worse for women.
If you button up your collar too tightly, you're a prude,
very religious or too uptight, but if you show cleavage, then you're a tease. What
if you opt for flats, then you're old-fashioned, but choosing heels makes you
too cheeky or out-there. This form of sexual stereotyping has been going on for
a while, and in some people’s opinions has now placed the act of getting
dressed onto a damaging scale of self-worth.
Now
recently, Terre Des Femmes, a Swiss feminist organization, took on the double
standards that come with women's style with an ad campaign titled "Don't
Measure a Woman's Worth by Her Clothes." The campaign points out the
dangers of judging a woman by her outfit and points out the fact that those
judging her are usually wrong anyway.
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