As I have done many times before, I put on my skinny jeans the other day. This is was not an easy task. I had to wiggle and shake and dance around just to get the pants up my legs. I had to stretch and move around to get them semi-comfortable once I managed to get them buttoned. I am sure to anyone it would be quite a seen.
As I was attempting to wear these so-called trendy and fashionable denim pants, I kept thinking to myself how ridiculous this was. It then also occurred to me that there are many ridiculous things that not only I but that many women do every day to be fashionable and look good, because truth be told when you look good, you feel good.
“Millions of women, even those whose body shape matches the stereotype, agonize everyday about the way they look,” said Hazel Croft in Women on the Front Line. Agonizing over body images is often the result of idolizing models in fashion magazines that are almost always much thinner than the average women and that are unhealthily thin.
However, in attempt to reach the fashionable body image women can be found everywhere and anywhere finishing, starting, and even breaking a diet. They can also be found in gyms or at home exercising off calories just to fit in those size 2 jeans they bought last week. Being thin is just one part that women see as being fashionable.
Whether thin or not, women think about and seek out fashion just as much as agonizing over their body image, and they have the closets to prove it.
Belinda Goldsmith wrote the article “Most Women Own 19 Pairs of Shoes—Some Secretly.” 15% of the women surveyed admitted to owning more than 30 pairs of shoes she said. I will admit that I own 24 pairs, and counting.
Some of these shoes are high heels. As painful as it is to walk around in 5” stilettos, women will still wear them proudly. However, according to Dr. Ben Kim in “Say No to High Heels,” “women have approximately 4 times as many foot problems as men.” I suppose that is a little price to pay for looking good.
Even more shocking then shoes is the amount of time women spend shopping for shoes and clothes. MailOnline.com featured the article “Women Spend 8 Years of Their Life Shopping, and said that women spend about 399 hours and 46 minutes shopping in a year!
For women fashion does not stop there. Makeup and hair are the cherry on top to being fashionable.
“According to a British survey conducted by Tresemme, the average woman spends a staggering $50,000 on her hair over a lifetime,” said Deborah Dunham on Stylelist.com. Deborah also mentions that by the time women reach 65 they have spent over 7 months washing, blow-drying, curling, straightening, and styling their hair.
As for makeup, “one survey found that the average time it takes a woman to put makeup is 52 minutes. The average number of items owned is 86!” exclaimed Jacqueline C. from www.cosmeticsdesign.com on ChaCha.com.
With hair products that include volume cream, gel, detangler, and hairspray, and makeup items that include foundations, eye shadows, lip colors, and blushes, women take over bathrooms. And with clothes, shoes, and accessories women are also taking over closets. Do not try to stop them, or limit them, because the need to feel pretty starts with looking pretty, and compliments help too.
A man told his friend: “My wife only has two complaints: Nothing to wear, and not enough closet space.”
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