Pants. Pants. Pants

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by Terri (30-S-4) FPE

Everywhere we look today we see women in pants. From stretch slacks to the harem pants of lounging outfits. It is becoming extremely evident that accept for formal occassions when skirts are absolutely nec- essary and in business, that women are foresaking their skirts for pants. The new short skirts have added stimulus to this change with many women who feel constantly harrassed wearing skirts. So as soon as possible into pants. Now the new pants suit has

added fuel to the fire.

As a TV who loves to wear skirts I look at the

pants scene with mixed emotions. Soon I may be wear- ing pants as much as a woman as I do as a man! I am particularly becoming weakened to the idea of a pair of pants in a hostess outfit. But do the girls real- ize that pants forsake all of the traditional inher- ent advantages of being a female?

First there is the loss of sex appeal. Tight pants are sexy but nowhere's like a tight skirt, nyloned legs and high heels. Men are attracted and stimulated by these items. Secondly there is the loss of the valued feminine guise of fragility. A female in pants can do anything a male in pants can do (practically speaking) so the male is less inclined to show her the little courtesies that a female in skirts enjoys. Thirdly, she loses the ability to be faultless in a male's eyes. A female in skirts may make mistakes but the male overlooks them so that he can look at her legs. When in pants the male has nothing to distract him.

So as a prejudice TV, who doesn't want to give up her skirts, I say Women of America follow the TV men of America and stay in skirts!

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