Bosom Up

Guess I’ve been in Springfield too long, but I was taken aback recently flying through Chicago and Los Angeles where I saw all sorts of skimpily dressed females. Teens and middle-aged; black, white and Hispanic; attractive and ordinary.

Some had the shortest of shorts that left little to the imagination. More had a desire to reveal their cleavage.

It’s not just airplanes and airport terminals, of course. By living in a sheltered environment of a Christian workplace and going to church functions quite a bit, I don’t see a lot of provocatively dressed women, although those environments aren’t necessarily a guarantee anymore of modesty.

What drives women to dress that way in public? It’s not really just the hot weather. There is some type of insecurity involved. A desire to be noticed. A hope to compete with all the unreal media images of scantily clothed women. The trend isn’t healthy, for women or men.