Originally posted by lz14
But there are so many places/jobs you can't go if you don't wear suits.
You are absolutely correct! For example, if you are a lawyer (in the US; note: other countries may have different dress code), you must wear suits in court or the judge will fine you in contempt. The same thing with the defendants - technically, you could show up in court dressed in tight leather or half-naked or whatever but if you do that, you would risk lossing your case and so on (unless all the juries were happened to dress in tight leathers too). Therefore, no matter how poor we are, we must rent/borrow/whatever to come up with proper suits to wear in court or our we will lose our case.
I'm not saying that, it's just so many women do, I wander why. (but men DON'T, at least very much less, this sounds similar to veils etc)
It's all part of the culture trend. Woman doesn't need to wear makeups, but it's just that most men refer to chase after beautiful women; therefore, if I want to play the game, I know exactly what I must do.
Just like women in high heel, I don't know why but most men just find that sexy these days (please note that men during the stoneage may not care much for high-heel
)...again, if I want to be in their games, I will wear them. Hint: just like fishing, if you want to catch fish, you must use the most exotic bait. Although you don't need to fish with bait, but you have to if you want to catch any fish. However, once the fish is hooked, you can take your sweet time to reel it in or do whatever you please and no one would object.
Anyway, I think the real question here is why women are in dresses and men are in suits? Why can't women wear suits and men wear dresses instead? I think the answer is yes.
In another parallel earth (universe), that would exactly be the norm.