When it comes to Christianity and fashion/clothing, there’s a Bible verse stating that if a woman dresses like a prostitute, she has a deceiving and manipulative heart or something. As what this post suggests that sometimes what prostitutes dress isn’t always the stereotypical image people have in mind, given at some point in Milan prostitutes even wore white. Likewise among the Japanese, wearing tight clothing would be whorish enough. Among Muslims, something that’s skimpy (like short shorts) is whorish enough for them too.
I suspect if something like hanfu becomes so popularised and normalised in the Philippines that things like leggings and booty shorts become the province of prostitutes, the sort of women who’d wear something to seduce men with. While it’s possible to wear skimpy clothing without intending to seduce somebody, but if somebody dresses this way to attract attention then it sends a bad message to other people. Like as if you’re asking for this, that you get a lot of attention and perhaps too much attention.
It goes back to the Bible verse about women in seductive attire having a seductive attitude to boot, which the post suggests may not necessarily involve stereotypical prostitute fashion. To reiterate, to some people both skimpy and tight clothing would be whorish enough. If you don’t want to send the message of being seen as whorish to them, then don’t dress like this or that which goes in line with how dressing in such a way indicates loose morals on some level.
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