The Black Silk Dilemma: A Sock Causes Bloodshed, Why We Can't Afford a Regular Sock?
When she had just opened the delivery and pulled out the newly purchased black stockings, Lin paused for no apparent reason.
The low-profile black stockings in the mirror that were resting on her dark jeans suddenly made her a little uneasy. If she wore them to work, would Sister Zhang and Sister Li look at her a little differently? Would the gossip in the pantry add a new topic of conversation? Or worse - would that greasy manager suddenly approach again and smell her hair in her ear by discussing the program?
She sighed and shoved the stockings back into the depths of her closet. It was obvious that she just wanted to try on a newly purchased fashion item, but she was bound by those invisible stares. A stocking, when did it become so heavy?
Why is it that an ordinary sock, worn on our feet, always becomes the "king of conversation"? Black silk, how to be praised on the altar and stepped into hell?
In the 80s, black silk was the "top of the line" - wear a pair of imported nylon stockings with high heels and you were the most glamorous fashionista on the street. Young girls would line up in front of department store counters just to grab a rare pair of translucent stockings.
But the social winds are turning like the sky in June. 2015, a company front desk girl for often wearing black silk was reported to be "indecent", the executive director of a "pay attention to the scale of dress", like a pot of cold water poured on the head of the urban workplace women. Social platforms are full of similar discussions: "programmers encourage teachers to wear black silk" "college female teachers wearing black silk lectures appropriate" ...... a thin stockings triggered by public opinion Tsunami swept online and offline.
An even more dramatic reversal occurred in the era of short videos. When Netflix blogger @Coco was wearing affordable black silk to bring in goods live, the 10-minute sales exceeded 100,000 items. She crossed her legs calmly in front of the camera, "What's sexy or not? A good fit is really sexy!" -- Young girls' shopping carts were instantly emptied.
Behind Black Silk's rollercoaster destiny is the distortion and rebirth of the era's gaze.
Black silk has never been just black silk. It has been a tool of capital for profit: sexy marketing empties the wallet, creates anxiety and harvests traffic; it has also become a label of discrimination: some people weave moral judgment into nylon threads in the hope of tying up the freedom of expression of beauty for thousands of women.
But today's girls are more sober than in any era. When 95-year-old designer Xiaoya mailed her grandmother a carefully selected thin, sheer black silk, the old man laughed like a child on the other end of the phone, "You've been stinking all your life, you've got to be pretty even when you're old!" -- Age prejudice crumbles into powder in front of a truly confident woman.
What is the true freedom of dressing? It's throwing away labels such as "man-chopping style", "mom style" and "nightclub standard" like trash; It's when a girl opens her closet in the morning and asks herself, "Which stocking do I want to spoil today? It's the fact that when we see a post-00s girl wearing ultra-thin black silk, we walk by without a ripple in our hearts, as naturally as if we were looking at a pair of ordinary white socks.
On the road to freedom of dress, the real end is not "love to wear what you want to wear", but to completely block out the noise of "what others think" - so that every stocking is just a prop for your mood! The props of the stockings are just your mood, no longer for the labeling of the weight to go forward. Black silk is not guilty, prejudice is guilty.
Clothes and shoes have no shackles, it is the vision that puts the locks on them; the body has the power, it is the discussion that imprisons it.Behind the dilemma of black silk is the fact that every soul that refuses to be defined will one day brush off the dust of social gaze - at that time, the black silk in the closet will finally become a pure declaration of personal aesthetic freedom.
You open your closet, what mood do you want to pick to wear today?
