by Luiz Sergio Solimeo The face of modesty. “I love vulgarity.
Good taste is death, vulgarity is life." These words by English
fashion designer Mary Quant, who took credit for inventing the
miniskirt and hot pants, reveal one of the most important,
though rarely pointed out, aspects of the “fashion revolution”
that started in the sixties: vulgarity. Indeed, fashions have
increasingly tended toward vulgarity. It is a vulgarity that
tramples upon not only good taste and decorum but which reflects
a mentality opposed to all order and discipline and to every
kind of restraint, be it esthetic, moral or social, and which
ultimately suggests a completely “liberated” standard of
behavior. Are Comfort and Practicality Supreme Criteria? The
rationale for introducing ever shorter skirts was “to be
practical and liberating, allowing women the ability to run for
a bus.” The notion that comfort, practicality and freedom of
movement must be the only criteria for dress has led to a
breakdown in the general standard of sobrie