Uncommon Commentary #194: Stress on Less Dress

I used to wonder why I'm attracted just as much to a woman in Victorian dress—in pictures only; I would prefer to have lived then, but I was, alas, born in the latter Twentieth Century—as to a gal in modern provocative styles, but I think that I've grasped the key distinction between women's fashions in the good ol' days and women's fashions today: previously, the clothes themselves were designed to be beautiful, to enhance the beauty of the woman, whereas now, they're just designed to be brief, to inspire lust in men.