I don’t know where this American desire to show off the waist and hide the hips comes from—is it pressure from the media? Is the ’50s housewife look the eternal ideal in US culture? I don’t know what the psychology is behind it, but I am always amazed by how much American women gravitate toward it. My personal opinion is that while I love a fit-and-flare, which can be very flattering and whimsical, I hate the idea that women are wearing it to hide the lower half of their curves, or using this silhouette to accommodate men’s ideas of femininity and beauty.
