This piece calls for my fellow teenage girls and women to recognize the ingrained sexism in fashion.
    I projected digital drawings of clothing pieces onto myself. Low-waisted tight jeans, crop top, and cut-out mini dress are some designs that I think most represent the discomfort of trendy clothing. Various brush strokes and a series motions presenting numbness, awkwardness, and anxiety.
    In the history of fashion, women have always been the ones to wear uncomfortable clothing for the appreciation of the “male gaze”. Unfortunately, in today’s world of gender equality, women are given the same pressure to show curves and show skin by clothing trends. This pressure is undercover as “be confident”, “wear whatever you want”. Wearing comfortable clothes with more coverage are considered “conservative”, “old-school”. Women can indeed be stylish without wearing a tiny piece of thin fabric. I believe women should break out of this confinement and wear things that we truly feel confident in.