the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.
Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.