the dress

From Long Live the Dress (for Now), by Guy Trebay:

Anyone who pays attention to fashion may want to know that those in charge of deciding these things have pronounced doom on the dress.They, meaning mainly fashion editors and designers, claim the dress is dead. Kaput. Three years of women in dresses is enough.

Of course, anyone who pays attention to fashion knows that it's run mainly by gay men and women-hating women—most of whom don't give an honest shit that women actually like wearing dresses because they're easy to wear and oh-so-flattering. Or, you know, that straight men love seeing us in dresses. So fuck the fashion industry and fuck the "full-legged, pleated high- and low-waisted" pants they want us to wear in the fall; my dress-wearing compatriots, let's keep on keepin' on.