Dress the way you want to be addressed is a popular slogan that is
usually used to buttress the fact that the way you dress tells a whole
lot about you. But this saying seems to have been thrown on the winds,
as most ladies in Nigerian higher institutions dress in a manner that
does not speak well of a responsible lady.
In universities today, there have been increase in
indecency, provocation and body – exposing dressing among females
students on the university campuses in the name of fashion and
civilization.
Today, sexual harassment of female students are
mostly blamed on lecturers but the question to why lectures fall into
such temptation is not being asked.
Yes, some lecturers sexually harasses students to
satisfy there sexual urge and even the decently dressed students are not
left out female students have often complained that to pass their
examination they have to sleep with lecturers. But most universities
especially private universities are spotting out these lecturers and
most of them face the consequencies of their actions.
A dress according to the oxford dictionary is “a
piece of women’s clothing that is made in one piece an covers the body
down to the legs, sometimes reaching to below the knees or to the
ankles” but today, most female undergraduates, have made the reverse
the case.
Most females today wear skimpy dresses exposing
several parts of the body down to the legs, in and around the campus to
classes, lecturers’ offices and outside the campus in the name of
fashion.
The value of learning and culture in the educational
sector and otherwise have been thrown away, as most female students
wants to befriend their lecturers and want to embrace the western ways
of dressing. African ladies seem to have forgotten that a typical
African or Nigerian woman is cultured and is expected to always cover
sensitive parts of her body and not making it a public show for
everybody to see thereby causing harassment and rape from the male folks
as it has medically been proven that a man can be aroused by mere
seeing sensitive part of a female body.
Mothers who are suppose to be role models to their
female children are not helping matters, some of them are even seen
dressing in such manner after all if a mother can do such, there is
nothing wrong if a daughter does the same.
Females today, want to copy what they see in movies.
As a matter of fact, most young ladies on our higher institutions
imitate the dressing of these celebrities.
They want to dress exactly the way these celebrities
dress, forgetting that some of them dress to portray a particular
character. Though some still wear these dresses to public events which
is not too good.
However, if asked why they dress the way they do to
public events or the motive behind the dress they are putting on during
interviews, the celebrities defend their action by saying they put on
what makes them comfortable and that they are not dressing to impress
anybody forgetting that they are role models and that they should impact
positively.
There are lots of complaints about the present style
of dressing among our young people mostly females in higher
institution. Some institutions in Nigeria is trying to curb the menace
of indecent dressing on campuses, some institutions have taken bold
steps, especially the private universities, in enforcing dress code for
students and banning some dresses or dress patterns.
The need to restore morality to Nigerian
universities and the society at large should be the interest of all
especially those in high authorities. Most youths attached this sense
of dressing to fashion and civilization you hear them saying “I am
civilize” leaving our culture to die.
All hands should be on deck to restore back the
African culture of dressing. Parents should watch what their children
wear and should correct them if there seem to be going off the line. We
Africans are beautiful and our culture is superb.
Source Nigeria Observer
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