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Boobs in your face!

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YehaaYessir · 11/10/2025 16:01

So I've been to a couple of wedding receptions recently and a formal event for DH's work.
Is it just me getting older or does anyone else notice the amount of women/ girls at these kind of events whose boobs are almost out?

I'm no prude but really? When did this become so widely appropriate? I'm not talking a bit of cleavage here, I'm talking everything on show, the whole lot out to a millimetre or two from the nipples.

I just wonder why so many girls these days feel the need to do this? Are they insecure about the rest of themselves? Or is it an empowerment thing- that they will know what every male who sees them that night will be thinking?

I for one would prefer not to be confronted by pairs of bare boobs in my face on a night out?
Has anyone else noticed this?

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HighLadyofTheNightCourt · 11/10/2025 17:41

blacksax · 11/10/2025 17:36

If someone is the sort of person who wants to wear clothes so revealing they might just as well shout "LOOK!!! LOOK AT MY TITS!!!! PHWOAR LOOK AT THESE BEAUTIES!!!" then I feel sorry for them, to be honest. How sad to feel so lacking in anything else about yourself that you have to serve your breasts up in front of you on a plate in order to be noticed.

I love clothes that show off my cleavage. So I wear them sometimes.

It’s nothing to do with being noticed or wanting attention. I just like to dress that way.
If you judge me for it then it says more about you than it does me.

OhBumBags · 11/10/2025 17:45

Interesting posting history OP.

You seem to have a thing about posting about skimpy outfits and boobs 😳

Pineapplewaves · 11/10/2025 17:47

It’s not a new thing, I used to dress like that in the late 90’s, early 2000’s - I wish I hadn’t, I used to attract all the wrong kind of men, I spent so many years chasing after and being treated badly. I think when you dress like that you give a certain impression, I had plenty of men wanting to shag me but nobody wanted a series relationship with me. I do also remember getting the evil look from wives and girlfriends. If I could go back, knowing what I know now I’d dress differently and have more respect for myself. Back then I lived by the saying “if you’ve got it, flaunt it”.

Tollington · 11/10/2025 17:49

Thephantom · 11/10/2025 16:56

The question is -would they wear scrunch leggings to a works meeting/social?! 😆

Whilst looking for attention and then moan about getting attention?

HighLadyofTheNightCourt · 11/10/2025 17:55

Pineapplewaves · 11/10/2025 17:47

It’s not a new thing, I used to dress like that in the late 90’s, early 2000’s - I wish I hadn’t, I used to attract all the wrong kind of men, I spent so many years chasing after and being treated badly. I think when you dress like that you give a certain impression, I had plenty of men wanting to shag me but nobody wanted a series relationship with me. I do also remember getting the evil look from wives and girlfriends. If I could go back, knowing what I know now I’d dress differently and have more respect for myself. Back then I lived by the saying “if you’ve got it, flaunt it”.

Suggesting that women who dress a particular way have no respect for themselves is a very misogynistic viewpoint.

Thephantom · 11/10/2025 17:55

Tollington · 11/10/2025 17:49

Whilst looking for attention and then moan about getting attention?

Yep, that's the type I was talking about 😉🤣

PlanetMa · 11/10/2025 18:03

ambergot · 11/10/2025 17:03

I do find it strange that a woman can walk around a supermarket with little more than a bra but a man is asked to leave if he has no shirt on.

Pretty sure a woman would be asked to leave also if she was topless.

ForTipsyFinch · 11/10/2025 18:09

YehaaYessir · 11/10/2025 16:25

OK so obviously the boobs aren't literally in my face. What I meant was they're difficult not to notice - especially I would imagine if you're male.

As there will be a lot of attached men there with their partners, is it really appropriate to attend one of these events with your boobs very nearly out?

It’s really simply. These grown adult men (and yourself simply don’t look.

if men can’t control themselves that really says more about them. Do you think they’re animals?

Charlenedickens · 11/10/2025 18:10

blacksax · 11/10/2025 17:36

If someone is the sort of person who wants to wear clothes so revealing they might just as well shout "LOOK!!! LOOK AT MY TITS!!!! PHWOAR LOOK AT THESE BEAUTIES!!!" then I feel sorry for them, to be honest. How sad to feel so lacking in anything else about yourself that you have to serve your breasts up in front of you on a plate in order to be noticed.

Are you quite ok? I don’t think any women thinks that. Except you thinking they think that.

ForTipsyFinch · 11/10/2025 18:10

Pineapplewaves · 11/10/2025 17:47

It’s not a new thing, I used to dress like that in the late 90’s, early 2000’s - I wish I hadn’t, I used to attract all the wrong kind of men, I spent so many years chasing after and being treated badly. I think when you dress like that you give a certain impression, I had plenty of men wanting to shag me but nobody wanted a series relationship with me. I do also remember getting the evil look from wives and girlfriends. If I could go back, knowing what I know now I’d dress differently and have more respect for myself. Back then I lived by the saying “if you’ve got it, flaunt it”.

Maybe that’s just you. That doesn’t mean everyone else who does it is male centered and chasing empty validation.

PlanetMa · 11/10/2025 18:19

ForTipsyFinch · 11/10/2025 18:10

Maybe that’s just you. That doesn’t mean everyone else who does it is male centered and chasing empty validation.

Exactly.

There was thread here earlier today about whether it’s ok for women over 30 to wear miniskirts! Confused Apparently knees are also now offensive.

I have absolutely no interest in dating or attracting men or their attention. Sometimes I might wear a low cut dress or a short one because I like how the clothes look. I suspect the majority of women have no interest whatsoever in the type of creep who ogles strangers so find it highly implausible that they are deliberately attracting the attention of such creeps.

The creeps need to learn to have some respect and control themselves. The suggestion that the solution to the behaviour of the creeps is for women to modify their clothing is the same as the “argument” made for forcing women to wear burkas or not be allowed out of the house without a male chaperone, and reminiscent of the people who blame rape victims for the rapists’ behaviour because allegedly the women should have chosen other clothing to deter the rapists or were “inviting” someone to rape them by drinking some alcoholic drinks.

I suggest you watch this, OP.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=51-hepLP8J4&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD

jsku · 11/10/2025 18:26

OP - just out of curiosity - should attached men not go to the beach, or gyms, or outside at all in the summer????

Boobs (and more) are in display in many places these days. And if you are going to be insecure about what your man sees and finds attractive - you will soon drive yourself crazy.

And if an attached man just needs to see some boobs - to throw his relationship away and run after said boobs…. well, who needs him really 🤷🏻‍♀️

FlorenceAgainstTheMachine · 11/10/2025 18:29

You are a prude. HTH.

FlorenceAgainstTheMachine · 11/10/2025 18:30

OhBumBags · 11/10/2025 17:45

Interesting posting history OP.

You seem to have a thing about posting about skimpy outfits and boobs 😳

Let me guess, is it more trad wife bollocks?

KittyRannaldini · 11/10/2025 18:38

I have zero interest in getting men's attention, for what it's worth; if I dress my body in a certain way it's because I like how it looks.
If I was trying to attract anyone it would be a woman.

autienotnaughty · 11/10/2025 18:45

Boobs are just a part of the body. Women should be able to wear what they want without men making it sexual and women judging. I long for a day when women are held to equal standards to men.

PlanetMa · 11/10/2025 18:49

jsku · 11/10/2025 18:26

OP - just out of curiosity - should attached men not go to the beach, or gyms, or outside at all in the summer????

Boobs (and more) are in display in many places these days. And if you are going to be insecure about what your man sees and finds attractive - you will soon drive yourself crazy.

And if an attached man just needs to see some boobs - to throw his relationship away and run after said boobs…. well, who needs him really 🤷🏻‍♀️

Apparently she has an issue with French women going topless on the beach too, per a previous thread she posted, and believes that they should adapt their culture and cover themselves up to make her - an immigrant living in their country - feel comfortable.

Not a road most of us would want to go down.

LittleJustice · 11/10/2025 18:54

autienotnaughty · 11/10/2025 18:45

Boobs are just a part of the body. Women should be able to wear what they want without men making it sexual and women judging. I long for a day when women are held to equal standards to men.

Yes but if you see men and women they dress very differently men are pretty much covered up really when they're in a social situation. Wearing flat shoes and trousers and things that make it easy to run away and to move in a dangerous situation.

For me it just makes women more vulnerable and takes away their power when they dress skimpily and teeter on high heels. You can see this for example on action films where the men are wearing really useful things to run in a jungle for example and the women are in little skirts and skimpy tops and high heels.

But I've always covered up and I've always been a tomboy growing up so I don't really understand why women dress this way.

This thread is a perfect example of why we just are never going to agree in this society because everybody comes at things from different angles gets really offended and annoyed at the person who's got a different point of view and there's never any middle ground found.

Mom2K · 11/10/2025 18:57

A man wearing stretchy shorts where you can clearly see the outline of his genitalia will draw attention to that area. Men, women, children...they're going to notice, it can't be helped. It has nothing to do with being a pervert, it's a natural reaction to notice something so blatant. It's the same with a woman wearing something that barely covers her beasts or if someone is wearing shorts so short their but cheeks hang out. If people are dressing like this in an environmentit wouldn't typically be expected...people are going to look, even if they're not attracted to that.

And the people dressing like that know everyone is going to look. It's probably the point/why they do it.

Are these people insecure? I don't know....people have a right to wear whatever they want but it's not great IMO if a person feels the need to dress in a way that is designed to cause everyone to look at them. And unless it's at a pool or beach where some level of nudity is expected...I don't think it's appropriate or respectful to the general public to walk about with things on display.

autienotnaughty · 11/10/2025 18:59

LittleJustice · 11/10/2025 18:54

Yes but if you see men and women they dress very differently men are pretty much covered up really when they're in a social situation. Wearing flat shoes and trousers and things that make it easy to run away and to move in a dangerous situation.

For me it just makes women more vulnerable and takes away their power when they dress skimpily and teeter on high heels. You can see this for example on action films where the men are wearing really useful things to run in a jungle for example and the women are in little skirts and skimpy tops and high heels.

But I've always covered up and I've always been a tomboy growing up so I don't really understand why women dress this way.

This thread is a perfect example of why we just are never going to agree in this society because everybody comes at things from different angles gets really offended and annoyed at the person who's got a different point of view and there's never any middle ground found.

That’s because it’s the mindset around women that needs to change not the clothes.
it should also be acceptable for women to wear comfy clothes, flat shoes and no make up in social situations just like men

ExposedCankles · 11/10/2025 19:01

lambdressedasspam · 11/10/2025 17:30

I agree with Op.

Mumsnet has a 'dominant opinon' of the day/times and usually outdated at that.
Today it's some sort of 'cool girl/wife'
Permissive thing. ' who cares/ why you looking/it's your problem if your looking/why can't men control themselves '

All very common things to here.
But it's 'cool girl' crap.

That dosent scratch the surface
for a feminist site.

People should wear what they want - within the social context. And understanding the 'social contract'
In your own home or a private gathering with like minded people or a social event where thats the norm- carry on.
Mixed generations/expectations - not so much.

The girls probably are just having fun but that's not to say there's nothing more to it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=68NhEAXih5o&pp=ygUfTm8gb25lcyB3ZWFyaW5nIGNsb3RoZXN4YW55bW9yZQ%3D%3D

Edited

There’s a little bit of me that agrees with you. Then I remember that people used to say that about ankles and the bit of me that thinks every generation has a duty to push boundaries makes me realise I am wrong.

HighLadyofTheNightCourt · 11/10/2025 19:03

LittleJustice · 11/10/2025 18:54

Yes but if you see men and women they dress very differently men are pretty much covered up really when they're in a social situation. Wearing flat shoes and trousers and things that make it easy to run away and to move in a dangerous situation.

For me it just makes women more vulnerable and takes away their power when they dress skimpily and teeter on high heels. You can see this for example on action films where the men are wearing really useful things to run in a jungle for example and the women are in little skirts and skimpy tops and high heels.

But I've always covered up and I've always been a tomboy growing up so I don't really understand why women dress this way.

This thread is a perfect example of why we just are never going to agree in this society because everybody comes at things from different angles gets really offended and annoyed at the person who's got a different point of view and there's never any middle ground found.

Your different point of view was to call women who dress in a particular way prostitutes and tell us your sons speak disparagingly about women.

Women should be able to choose to wear whatever they want without being subject to misogyny, because that’s what calling women names for dressing provocatively is.

Just because you don’t understand why women dress a particular way doesn’t mean they are wrong and you are right. They just have different tastes.

Charlenedickens · 11/10/2025 19:08

LittleJustice · 11/10/2025 18:54

Yes but if you see men and women they dress very differently men are pretty much covered up really when they're in a social situation. Wearing flat shoes and trousers and things that make it easy to run away and to move in a dangerous situation.

For me it just makes women more vulnerable and takes away their power when they dress skimpily and teeter on high heels. You can see this for example on action films where the men are wearing really useful things to run in a jungle for example and the women are in little skirts and skimpy tops and high heels.

But I've always covered up and I've always been a tomboy growing up so I don't really understand why women dress this way.

This thread is a perfect example of why we just are never going to agree in this society because everybody comes at things from different angles gets really offended and annoyed at the person who's got a different point of view and there's never any middle ground found.

It was the saying women who wore low cut tops dressed like prostitutes and how your sons and their friends degraded them verbally that is the view point we do not accept.

bittertwisted · 11/10/2025 19:08

LittleJustice · 11/10/2025 16:57

You are getting a lot of hate here but I totally understand what you are saying.

I look at the young girls and I think oh my goodness imagine if they get drunk they're going to be falling out.

My son who went to university down south says it's more of a Northern thing so I don't know whether you're north or south but it really does seem to be prevalent in the North.

And yeah I can't understand why they don't wear a bra it looks really tacky.

Those northern common slags hey

and this is the state of the sisterhood
glad I have 3 sons

from a Liverpool girl with great boobs

HighLadyofTheNightCourt · 11/10/2025 19:12

bittertwisted · 11/10/2025 19:08

Those northern common slags hey

and this is the state of the sisterhood
glad I have 3 sons

from a Liverpool girl with great boobs

Bloody hell. I missed the northern comment.

Fellow northerner here, also with great boobs.

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