Nice pic but not really why I'm posting a link to it. The real reason is the way so many people dress for formal occasions like weddings. Something has been puzzling me for a while. Why do women go bare-shouldered when men go buttoned, tied, and jacketed up?
Maybe I have a too practical approach to clothes to really understand, but it seems to me to be inherently encouraging sexism if clothes are mainly for decoration and differentiation of the sexes. I've nothing against decorative clothing, in fact I'm in favour of it, but why doesour culture (and others) make the women decorative rather than practical or smart and the men smart and buttoned up rather than practical or decorative?
If a man needs two layers of fabric on his shoulders for practical reasons or for formality, why doesn't a woman? Conversely, if the ambient temperature allows women to go bare-shouldered, why don't men too?
I've got another 'keen'... Ouch!