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Women’s clothes men love to hate
Many men find clothing that exposes breasts, backs indecent and disrespectful. PHOTO BY ISMAIL KEZAALA.
Comedian Salvador Idringi says he does not like clothes bearing weird and funny marks written all over them.
“There are some double trouble clothes which have spice girl pictures and words written on the buttocks and at the front, especially the red ones; I just don’t like them,” he says. He also does not like skirts with long slits. When a woman in such a skirt walks, the skirt folds upwards and you can see her struggle to pull it down, and you ask why they wear them in the first place.
Then, there are women who wear clothes and you can tell that they forced the clothes onto their bodies. When they sit, say on a bodaboda, some of their body parts are exposed to the “outside environment”, which makes them lose respect from the public. Instead of concentrating on where they are going, they concentrate on pulling them up and down, says Idringi.
Exposed backs
He dislikes clothes that expose women’s backs and breasts. They should wear something decent, for example, the hijab attire of Muslims; they look good in it.
“We are living in the 21st Century. I expect any woman to know that her weight, size, and wardrobe must be in concordance. There is absolutely no way you are going to look smart in that tight holding dress or top that spells out your stomach (we call them city tyres),” says Freddie Sakura, a radio presenter with KFM. “I particularly have a problem appreciating big-body women in tiny suffocating clothes,” Freddie adds. “Likewise, there is no second glance from me at a small-body lady in an outfit that’s a size too big; not a head turner at all.”
Frank Jjuuko, a mechanic in Wandegeya says he does not like miniskirts that when worn, go high above the knees. “If you are in company of a woman and she’s wearing a miniskirt, she will feel very okay with it. But you, the person walking with her, is the one to feel ashamed,” says Jjuuko. It becomes worse if you find an elderly woman wearing miniskirts; it becomes disgusting,” Jjuuko adds. This, Jjuuko says, makes women lose respect.
Gerald Kiiza, also a mechanic in Wandegeya, says he has never liked transparent leggings that reveal the colour of the inner under garments of women. “Why do they always wear them? A lady who is morally upright should not put on such clothes because they ashame themselves. They could be wearing them thinking they will impress men, yet it is not the case, though it happens to a few,” Kiiza says.
Kundi show
“Then, there are those who wear tops that do not fit them (kundi show) that expose their navels or belly buttons and you find their stomachs out. Ladies should opt or find much more decent ways of dressing than showing us their body parts. I cannot allow my wife wear such, because I, the husband, will lose respect amongst my colleagues”, Kiiza adds. Sometimes you can even be nicknamed by your workmates according to your wife’s terrible dressing code, says Kiiza.
Pius Kabala, a businessman, says he does not like women who wear tops and refuse to wear bras, showing their breasts to whoever cares to see. “If you are to observe carefully, women who dress in reckless and careless ways have question marks on them; they are either showing off or come from families where social and moral etiquette are not given attention,” says Kabala.
“This mostly applies to campus students who think they have it all and do not consider the disrespect and the image they earn from the public. In fact, I feel so sorry for lecturers and teachers in secondary schools who struggle so hard to groom young girls to become responsible citizens in future,” Kabala adds
