The Woo has complained on her blog today, about some unpleasant male stranger being rude about her appearance, and raised the topic of whether she’s perhaps dressing inappropriately – by wearing nice, sexy clothes. I find this a terrible prob, myself. Whenever I wear anything especially nice: full prom dresses with high-heels, boned, corseted bodices, city shorts etc, I get SO much abuse. You just wouldn’t believe it. Yesterday a builder shouted: ‘Hi! Miss Piggy!’ at me, and then fell about laughing so much he nearly tumbled off his scaffold. And I wasn’t wearing anything outrageous at all. Just a slit pencil skirt skirt more than two inches above the knee and beautiful pink stilettos. What do builders, white-van man et al expect ladies over 35 to do: dress like librarians? IF we DO dress like librarians we get ignored. (And the ignoring is done in a painfully rude way, too.)
And another thing I hate: those articles in the women’s pages of upmarket broadsheets TELLING you what you should wear and mentioning the depressing words: mutton dressed as lamb.. They always say you ought to cut your hair off, too, once you get close to 40. As far as I’m concerned there’s no point going to all the trouble of having your hair streaked blonde if you’re going to trim it to look like a prison wardress. I’d always rather have torrents of abuse than become ‘invisible’.
Grr. I’m going to go off and eat some cake now.
