quietGuy13 Posted November 11, 2011 Posted November 11, 2011 What's up with American girls. Seems aside from special occasions...Women in america do not generally dress sexy, cute etc.. The ones that do...over do the sexual style but ..i dont know It seems women in america dressed sexy,cute in the 70s or something. cause now i mostly see women wearing jeans and shirts. You look at any foreign girl that comes to america, for example Asians or Europeans or Russians or whatever.. and you can immediately spot them . they look feminine and well dressed in a cute or sexy fashion The only women in america that try to dress cute or sexy are the ones that are really fashionable and the ones that copy asian fashion . Even i see girls from highschool and it's either Jeans OR over sexual type of fashion but it's not cute/sexy style.. it's just overdoing it or underdoing it.
Author quietGuy13 Posted November 11, 2011 Author Posted November 11, 2011 It's interesting it takes shows like "Wayne Brady's Let's make a deal" to see American girls dressed in more cutesy or sexy feminine outfits...but this is not in general life.. it's a show where the audience always has costumes on.
Negative Nancy Posted November 11, 2011 Posted November 11, 2011 (edited) women were not born to be your personal dress -up doll. why do you complain about this on this forum anyway instead of getting yourself an eastern european fashionista? win-win. there's plenty of them who'd do anything for you.....for 3 years, until they have their unconditional GC. there also used to be a time when men would woo women and pay for all the dates, now where's that time gone? we can throw everything back at each other. Edited November 11, 2011 by Negative Nancy
oaks Posted November 12, 2011 Posted November 12, 2011 What's up with American girls. I'm sure this forum isn't big enough for that topic! You look at any foreign girl that comes to america, for example Asians or Europeans or Russians or whatever.. and you can immediately spot them . they look feminine and well dressed in a cute or sexy fashion Different plus rare equals exotic. Same and common equals mundane. Nothing too complicated about this.
insertnamehere Posted November 12, 2011 Posted November 12, 2011 I have to confirm the OP's premise. Culturally, in America, the Sexual Revolution was a much more overt social and political revolution. And it had consequences in terms of power relationships. Women in America view conceding to traditional notions of femininity as surrendering their gains from the Women's Rights era. Having been to Europe, it's a radical difference. I won't indulge the "foreign women are slimmer" nonsense, because that's a regional thing. There are places in the Mediterranean where the woman are fatter than sea cows. It's a little too easy to idealize all foreign women as slimmer in the Perfect Parisian Girl mode when that's a decidedly regional thing, and frankly that's changing as economic conditions worldwide improve. I will say that in terms of basic style and persona, European women tend to be a lot more playful. Same argument can be made about European men. This, frankly, is more the fault of Americans being fed generations of "stranger danger" bull**** amid decades of rampant street violence. Violent crime has long since declined in the US, but the culture of being closed around strangers has not disappeared. It's still fed to American children over-and-over that you don't talk to strangers. When I'm in Europe, I love it because you can talk to anyone anywhere any time of the day. It's eye-opening to feel safe in the middle of a giant metro at 4am. It's also nice to be walking through a bad neighborhood and be able to ask anyone you see for directions. In the US you still get treated like **** asking the mall cops for directions in the afternoon. So . . . yes, foreign women tend to be more fun and flirty and feminine. But, on balance I think this has more to do with how emotionally and socially closed-off Americans are. 1
zengirl Posted November 12, 2011 Posted November 12, 2011 (edited) Well, I imagine it would depend on what you like, fashion-wise. Not all women in America dress the same, obviously (there's a HUGE range, and it's going to vary a TON by age and area too!), nor do all 'foreign' women dress the same (an even larger range, varying even more by age and area!). I've lived in many countries. My particular style is very much rooted in Japanese or Korean fashion, and I have a lot of my clothes shipped in from Japan, Korea, or Hong Kong. I go leggings and layer crazy sometimes; it's fun. Not all guys like that style (plenty do), but it's what I like, so it's what I wear. My BF thinks T shirt and jeans are cute, and while he likes my general style, he always praises when I'm wearing a Threadless T and some skinny jeans, and I can tell it's one of his favorite looks on me or maybe he likes it because it's a change-up, I don't know. So, my point is, you may not like Ts and jeans, but loads of guys do. Some guys like surfer gals (which was a popular look where I live this summer, even though we aren't on a coast!), some guys like women in business wear, some guys like sexy librarian. . . and there are plenty of well-put-together women where I live (a major metro in the Southeast where plenty of women would tell me it's a sin to leave the house without makeup on!). If you find Asian fashion cute (as your OP implies at the end), then, yes: There's some of it here, but the general American style is not as cutesy or demure as Asian fashions. Girlishness is a high priority in Asian fashion, and it is not in much of American style at the moment (it ebbs and flows, really, but right now, actually, masculine pieces tailored to women are quite in; they aren't my cuppa either, but fashion is cyclical). However, here's the flip side: you'll hardly catch a woman in Japan or Korea (IME) over 40 in anything remotely fashionable. They get schlubby fashion-wise WAY faster than American women. My mother is a little over 50 and still dresses cute, but I never met a woman her age in Korea and very few in Japan (only the rich socialites, not regular women) who wear clothes that aren't matronly; there's just a huge fashion dip with age and marital status in those countries, mainly because the fashionable clothes ARE so girlish, and when you're 50, looking girlish would probably be silly so they go straight to matronly. As to other areas, masculine pieces are quite in in Europe right now too, though again, there's a HUGE variation in fashion between countries. But, for instance, if you like Asian style right now, you'd probably hate German style right now. They are almost polar opposites. Which doesn't mean all German girls dress that way (I see wide variation). Russians in the U.S. have a certain look that looks nothing like anything I saw when I was in Russia, though I haven't been there for a few years. In Russia, everyone just looked cold and drab, except at the nightclub where they looked super sexy. I remember it vividly. Edited November 12, 2011 by zengirl
SilverLining Posted November 12, 2011 Posted November 12, 2011 I kind of agree. There is more of an attitude that women should be 'one of the boys' in America. A lot of men find women who can wear tshirts and jeans sexy, so women do it often. A lot of girls love to dress up nicely, but there's this idea that you should be more laid back and fun rather than spend a ton of time getting ready to go to the store. How many times have I heard that guys want a 'low-maintenance girl'! Guys tend to get irritated if you spend too much time on fashion and dress. I'm not sure if European men are just more accepting of that or what, but it's definitely not a situation where American women are just not fashionable. I DO think it really depends on where you go - in a village or rural community, people dress less fashionably than they do in urban centers like New York, London, or Tokyo. To combat that, I have to say that something I have noticed in my travels is that in general, American men and women far outshine Europeans in looks. 1
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