NYAKENYA WAIRIMU: my dress my choice

Truth be told, most of us ladies we have that piece of cloth that can be a skirt or that essential little black dress that when we were buying them, they looked long enough and when we are trying them out in our dressing rooms, they look okay and comfortable. Then we put on our high heels(you all know that high heels makes a dress appear even more shorter..right?) walking around the house picking this picking that on our way out hurriedly then shoot...when we start walking on our paths to the main road you realize that the skirt is going up with every step you make..and of course that's not the length you wanted for the day and so you walk few meters, pull it down , few meters pull it down all the way to wherever you were going to and poor you if you meet up with our frustrated uniformed stripping gangs or goons if you may.

Some of you might consider this as a topic that has been overtaken by time because its in our nature to make a lot of noise about things then all of a sudden forget about them like they didn't even happen. After a series of remorseless stripping attacks made to our aunties, cousins sisters right, left and center by our men, the women took it to the streets causing traffic mayhem to protest with a very confused, lost and over blown slogan 'My dress my choice' making it even worse was their dress code..They dressed in all sort of decent clothing as if the ladies being stripped were in the long dresses, tights and jeans! I mean I have seen women protest in Malawi, Nigeria, Gabon, South Africa and Uganda to mention but a few.

what they wore,

Picture taken from Daily Nation

What I expected them to wear.

They carried to the streets all sort of placards but this one caught my eyes.

picture courtesy of abc.net.au

Because instead of protesting in a dignified manner, this is how our sisters and cousins behaved in the streets...

picture curtesy of News-Kenya.com

picture curtesy of Daily Nation

Lets be honest, we cannot continue justifying our tiny dresses in the name of 'even our mothers and grandmothers wore minis in the 60s 70s and 80s and no one stripped them' because we all know that since then the world has drastically changed, so have we and our mannerisms as well! What we have been exposed to today is in no way near to what they were exposed to . We have the internet, TV and even our radios advising us on how to dress in our bedrooms, how to dress for night out with the girls, first dates etc etc. We are therefore totally responsible for the choices we make in our lives. Your dress your choice yes, but whatever happens there after blame it solely on you. Ladies, we share this world with other people so lets dress decently and lets be dignified with our mode of dressing.

Or if you insist, when you want to dress in this short dresses/skirts, use private means of transport that is your car, taxi or avoid areas where majority of the frustrated jobless girlfriend-less Kenyan men cruise.

Moral of the story, if you decide to do something, do it and make it big. Good examples are from our neighbors;

In Malawi

In South Africa