It got warmer out in the northern hemisphere so women in dresses started walking around, men started noticing this as they are wont, and because everyone’s still too online, there is now something called sundress discourse. A sundress is I guess the sort of dress you’d wear on vacation or to a picnic, cute not glamorous, machine-washable not dry clean only. You can, if so inclined, debate its parameters. For reasons I can barely put together, this is a matter about which there are now takes. Is a take really needed for why 80 degrees out calls for something other than a parka? Evidently.
The only interesting part is that there’s some lady marketing a particular $130 USD rayon sundress that looks like Reformation but crummier as… trad. Why trad? Because a man would want to have sex with a woman who wore it. It’s owning the libs to do a heterosexuality. But, you might ask, wouldn’t this be true of any skimpy dress, assuming an attractive woman in it? Ah, but this dress has everything a woman wants, such as a built-in bra.*
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