Sunday, February 7, 2010

There are times I notice that women are starting to wear clothes similar to men's clothing. According to Mina Roces in "Women, Citizenship and the Politics of Dress in Twentieth-Century Philippines," "Women [are] 'bearers of tradition', [therefore they] wore national dress, while men wore the western suit and jacket, reflecting the gendered power relationship in the society" (Roces 8). Women in