Upfield,
I will answer by flipping the question
Actually, you've evaded the question.
Dressing revealingly for young women is advised and celebrated in Western society as a feminist statement of sexual empowerment.
Socially perhaps, but not via religion, the opposite is the case.
Why then, should Western women be made to wear revealing clothing, if they do not wish to do so?
They shouldn't, they're not, and I haven't argued they should anywhere, so what's your point?
Why is it that before the modest clothing trend, less revealing clothes were only designed for and marketed to over 40yr old women?
As others have said, the same clothes were always available, but fashion goes through cycles. Sometimes longer dresses and more covered up styles are 'in', but they don't usually have a sinister, sexist label which casts aspersions as to a woman's virtue attached to them. I'd say in general that high fashion is designed to be as outrageous as possible, to grab attention on the catwalks, and then these styles then filter down to the High Street. Part of this is sexually provocative outfits. High fashion is about sex and the display of wealth, trends are dreamt up to make money. Retailers have obviously seen the earning potential in churning out 'modest' fashion and selling this to all women as the latest thing.
The ideology that all young women only dress modestly because they “are made to” by men is false.
Yes, I've also acknowledged women wear it for all sorts of different reasons.
Yes, some are, but equally as many are forced to wear revealing or no clothing by men. Namely the millions of sex workers worldwide.
Why are you mentioning this? Are you implying from what I've said that I in some way approve of women being forced to wear revealing outfits in the sex trade? Where on Earth do you get this idea from?
no one type or style of clothing in the western world is representative of patriarchy.
I agree, why do you have the impression that I don't?
It's you who seems to see this as an 'us and them' scenario and are pitting women against each other, then projecting this onto me. The opposition I have is against oppressive, patriarchal codes for women's dress which, as I've mentioned numerous times exist in all cultures. It's not about being anti-Muslim or telling women what to wear, but analysing specifically 'modest' fashion as a recent phenomenon, because that's the theme of the thread.
So, back to my original question, that you haven't answered but instead have laid out yet another bunch of straw men arguments. If dressing modestly, as you admit, does not protect women from unwanted male sexual violence, then why do religions advise it? Why should women wear it? Don't you think there might be some sort of underlying agenda there in terms of controlling women as the possessions of men?