Modest Clothing and the ‘Golden Rules

Growing up, I recollect hearing of two golden rules when it came to dressing. The first one was the legs or boobs rule and the second was, ‘If you got it you better flaunt it’.

It was some supposed cardinal sin to be styled in such a way which allowed the parading of both. The revealing of only one ‘asset’ as they would call it, I presume was to indicate some sort of decency visually as according to society’s standard. The second one on the other hand, I felt countered the former in a sort of way that promoted a certain type of body positivity and feminine ownership over one’s body once it looked a certain way. The two rules nonetheless, in some ways both objectified a woman’s body in