10 Dumb Things Every Guy Thinks About Women's Fashion
1. "Can't you just go grab a size 8 anywhere?" Dude, even if I've previously worn one store's brand and size, I still don't feel like I can walk in and pick them up without trying three different sizes just to make sure they still work. And you know what? Usually the ones I have at home are totally different than the ones I buy! Women's clothing sizes are a mystery to us too. Just acknowledge that and move on.
2. "Why did you buy a $90 bra? Aren't they usually like $5?" I'm not sure if guys think bras are super cheap, but the fact that they don't seem to get that the average one costs the equivalent of the gross national revenue of like, a small European country, is maddening.
3. *You're wearing leggings* "I love those tights on you." I lose my shit every time a guy calls my tights leggings or my leggings "hose" (ROFL), or vice versa. They truly believe that anything we put on our legs that aren't pants are one of the three and I swear they're just guessing at random.
4. "Oh, I see you're wearing stilettos. Let's go on a 2 mile walk now!" Guys seem to go back and forth between "How can you walk in those?" and taking us on a 2-mile stroll when we're clearly wearing platforms stilettos and wobbling like a baby deer. Which brings me to my next point…
5. "Why do you wear those shoes if they hurt your feet?" OK, this is sound logic in theory, but also, some shoes are just meant to be worn for, like, an hour max and then taken off. Those shoes are very cute and we love them and yes, it'd be great if they were made for us to wear all night but they aren't. And that is fine with us because they are pretty.
6. "Did you like rip your skirt or something?" I have straight-up had men laugh at those skirts, or just keep staring at the front and the back trying to get it to make sense. Worst still, sometimes they think it's cut wrong or damaged (excuse me, it's frayed). It doesn't need to make sense! It's just, like, clothing art. Get over it.
7. "Why would you wear a belt with a dress?!" It's not holding anything up, so I get that, but also sometimes belts are just cute ways of cinching your waist and that's a thing we want to do. Just let us live, man.
8. "Why do you need a new jacket? Your closet is crazy full." Listen, utilitarian man, I know you've been socialized to need one pair of pants, one hoodie, and, like, three T-shirts, but we've been socialized to have endless options and to dress up so we can feel fun and new and different all the time. It's pretty hard to do that when you look at your closet and realize you've had the same 20 things for all of college, and new clothes have come out since then, and YOU MUST HAVE THEM.
9. "Why did you spend $200 on that top? You could probably get one just like it for way cheaper." Sure, guys know there's a price jump from Target to Brooks Brothers, but they don't understand the long-term implications. Still, trust us when we say that an $8 top is going to look like it's been in a paper shredder six months from now, whereas a $200 one from an actually nice store is gonna look like it did when I bought it for 10 years. It's basic math.
10. "Why do you wear that winter coat when it isn't even that warm?" If they'd make super-cute bomber jackets that actually kept us warm, we'd wear them. But they don't, so we wear the ones that make us look cute and then steal yours because ... we just do. Accept us as we are.
