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To Show or Not To Show
Is it there? Is it not? Is it showing? Relax. It's okay to show off the strap. Or so it seems as I look around in the fashion hubs of the city and find girls comfortable about the strap.
Is it there? Is it not? Is it showing? Or what?
Relax. It is okay to show off (ahem) the strap.
Or so it seems as I look around myself in the fashion hubs of the city and elsewhere and find girls comfortable about the strap - a thought strikes.
From burning to flaunting, women's lib it seems has come full circle with the most sensuous part of a woman's closet - the brassiere.
Clear, beaded, spangled, stone-studded, sparkly you want to show it off, the strappy option is endless and women are making the most of it as they strut their stuff the globe.
As the urban nymphets find their own language of sexy self-assertion, my jaw drops in awe. Why? Because even without saying a word, when a girl wears her shirt or dress with her strap showing, the message rings clear. Sharper than the metaphoric 'burning' protest against the garment in 60s.
If then women screamed "I am the way I am as free as a man can be and I do not need to feel tied up".
