Olivia Rodrigo defends her ‘too girly’ performance dress

The reason was the singer baby doll -style dress. Some saw the outfit as too girly and revealing – i.e. inappropriate.

At the end of May, 23-year-old Rodrigo commented on the matter on The New York Times podcast.

He reminded that he has been on stage in less covering clothes. The sparkly bra didn’t create a stir.

However, the childlike dress over an adult was too much for some. For Rodrigo, it shows how we normalize pedophilic notions in our culture.

Sweet the style with lace and bows has been considered feminine, sometimes childish.

If a woman chooses a men’s suit, the choice is rather empowering, stylist Claudia Cifu crystallizes a thought pattern that lives in strictness.

Mekkokohu is for him an example of how we take our right to compartmentalize and blame each other.

At the same time, you forget that fashion includes free play. Even if accentuated with a girly dress.

“I don’t see anything wrong with that. The attitude says more about the viewer himself and his hidden attitudes,” states Cifu.

Rodrigo emphasized that he was inspired by the punk icons of the 1990s, such as From Kathleen Hannan and Courtney Lovesta.

According to her own words, the singer’s goal was above all to be “cool”, not sexy.

In the 1990s, fashion was more extensive kinderwhore-an aesthetic whose short dresses reminded me, perhaps intentionally, of night dresses.

“Childish” dressing is not a new thing, confirms the ethnologist Arja Turunen.

He brings up the 1920s, when women’s fashion became shorter for the first time. The second wave hit the 1960s. Women wore miniskirts and dresses, and their legs were allowed to show.

Even then, dresses were condemned as they are now. The difference with the past is that today we are more sensitive to the images that pop stars create on stage.

What is hypersexual and what is acceptable? It is impossible to draw a line, and it would not make sense.

Everyone looks at outfits from their own point of view, Turunen emphasizes.

The last one According to Claudia Cifu, in twenty years, fashion has combined seemingly contradictory elements.

For example Miu Miu, Marc Jacobsin, Vivienne Westwood this Simone Rochan designers like have built entire collections around tension.

You can be both cute and grotesque, innocent and sexy, childhood and adulthood mixed up.

The collections challenge our one-sided notions of identity, says Cifu.

Fashion it’s always in the nature that someone freaks out at first. Nothing new is born unless we deviate a little from the usual.

“Revealing clothing, in particular, is a hit every year,” says Turunen.

“It produces new interpretations and meanings of gender,” he sums up.

Cifu believes it’s not so much about clothes as it is about control.

“The appearance of female artists is constantly evaluated. In a way, dressing becomes a tool through which credibility, sexuality, age, even personality are discussed.”