Beautiful on the inside and out

Hubby and I were out on Saturday night and were waiting for the public transport from the busy Railway Square at Central. We could not help but to notice that with the witching hour fast approaching, the party throngers started pouring out from the train stations, across the roads and into wherever the party is at. At the same time as well, a few were pre-drunk at home to save on binge-ing expensively at the clubs and were stumbling dangerous across the roads in the midst of tooting cars and swearing drivers.

Both of us also started to comment and discuss on the dresscode of the party people. There was a significant number of females in tight revealing dresses and seemingly towering heels meant for performing artists on stilts. Painted in the latest and most attractive makeup money can buy, the total look is completed by the exact amount of accessories and matching hand-clutches.

In contrast, the boys did seemed a little drab in their shirts, pants or jeans and shoes.

The look continues in couples as well. Stunning women in beautiful sparkly revealing dresses tip-toeing hand in hand with men in black or white non-descript shirt/t-shirt and pants and equally boring shoes.





Why is that? Do the boys think there is no need to dress up when going to party because all they want to do is to drink and have a good time with the boys? Do they not think they need to dress up to attract/flirt with the opposite sex? What is the purpose of girls dressing up all sparkly and revealing to the party? To have a good time partying among the girls? Or to hopefully present a good image to the opposite sex so that the boys will want to party with the girls? And in the couple context, why is there an imbalance of the dresscode?

Hubby commented that if the event calls for it and if I am dressed up to the nines, he promised me he would at least try to match in terms of the formality of my dress and would never dream of wearing a t-shirt, but it seemed from our observation that the boys looked very comfortable in their party gear (or the lack of it) and the girls went all out and left nothing in their body unadorned.

If it is but-for the purpose of attraction and flirting with the opposite sex in the party context, Hubby and I could not help but continue our observations with antecedotal examples.

For all our similarities with the animal kingdom, we have always known that males are the attractive ones and females are generally larger in size presumably to be able to carry babies to terms and also duller in colour, as they do not have the need to attract the opposite sex. This concept is totally opposite in the human race that night.

First example that came to mind were the guppies, where the colourful males distincted greatly from the females from their vibrant tail colours and the slimmer bodies.



Then the male lions with beautiful head of hair, ferocious roar and beautiful posture. Females? They just looked like the bigger size of the baby lions, nothing outstanding.



Male peacocks used their full colourful fan colours to attract the dull, fat female peacocks.



And last but not least, the handsome male deers used their beautiful antlers to beckon to the female deers to let them know they are the best partners to have baby deers together.



But us homo sapiens? Girls it seems are obsessed with dressing up to be the most attractive on the dance floor. And by dressing up, it was also observed to be dressing down revealingly in dresses with daring bust lines and short hems, and high heels that are neither good for your body nor good for your feet. Why?



I guess until one day that it is accepted that boys and girls are accepted no matter what they wear, this question will remain unanswered.