Have you considered the messages you put out to the public with what you wear each time you step out from your house? You see some people wear wrong and unsuitable outfits to work places and occassions and you ask yourself—what is she/he thinking?

In the Nigerian setting, it would be pretty awkward to see a local pepper/crayfish seller wearing expensive designer’s suit sitting under the hot sun selling fresh pepper in the open Nigeria market. In that condition, her/his outfit is totally out of order. It would also be outrageous walking into a corporate establishment and seeing ladies in strippers attire or men wearing multicolored leggings with suits. Awwwchhhhhh....guys with multicolored leggings covered with Armani Suits? What a sight to behold huh? Those of them with ugly twisted legs will certainly swear for their establishment for allowing such outfits. So you see that what we wear daily matters a lot.



There are situations you walk into a particular shopping mall or grocery store and you see some female attendants dressed in ways that could make you throw up. I think those selling consumables should train their female attendants on suitable dress code suitable for their kind of job. Nothing is wrong with a female attendant wearing jeans but it must be a clean denim and not those dirty-washed-ripped jeans made for rock music stars on stage performance. The worst part is that the jeans will hardly cover the back side of the female attendants so you wonder what she is selling. Her backside or grocery? Still on female attendants, most of them are also seen wearing tops that showcase their breasts and ask them to pick some items for you and you will see things wobbling here and there. Quite an obscene outfit for people working in grocery stores. Same is applicable to females that work in restaurants and hotels. Word has it that men enjoy looking and talking to such women and this attracts customership to the outlets.

How about the male attendants that wears what we call ‘’sagging’’? Yea, you walk into an eatry/supermarket and you see young men sagging their jeans exposing their boxers. This is the worst dressing any young man can step out in stupidly thinking he is trendy. Trendy? When your whole moronic personality is at stake? What is attractive and trendy with a man exposing his boxers and walking like someone carrying injection malfunction on his buttocks. Very stupid dress code which every outlet no matter what you sell should not tolerate.

I see any adult male sagging his jeans as very irresponsible and parents that allow their boys to wear such outfits and leave the house should be questioned about their parental duties. These males actually feel on top of the world sagging their trousers when in the real sense, they are destroying their entire personality. Totally!!

There has been this controversy that some churches allow female worshippers wear hot minis to church and the worst part is that such ladies go straight to the front seats to seat. Distracting the pastor who i also see as not doing their jobs by allowing such ladies wear such outfits to church in the first place. Sure, a good church will warn women who wear such outfits because such outfits are inappropriate for churches. How can you wear hot mini skirts and dresses to church and all the time, all you do is to cross and recross your legs, adjust and re-adjust your legs trying to cover your inner self? Why are you so uncomfortable while sitting down wearing such dresses? Did you not see that the dress was short before you put it on or did someone forced the dress on you? Arrant nonesense if you ask me!!! Does this really make sense when you are aware you are wearing a hot mini dress and you keep pulling the dress down to cover up as if the dress will instantly become longer. Meanwhile, some of these ladies spent days dreaming of wearing such dresses to church to show off. In this case, such outfit tears your personality and drags your entire personality to the mud. These so –called happening chicks/babes think by wearing such slutty wears to church, they will be adored and seen as trendy. Trendy? Fashionista...whatever they call them...you actually lost your entire body image and self respect if this is your style of dressing.

Ok..slow down jacqui...slow down....sure slow down but for what? You all are aware of these things i am exposing here but no one cares to address them when necessary huh? Take the case of the pastors not warning and banning ladies with slutty dressing from entering the church. Yes, ban them outright and if they really care to worship God, they will change their dress attitude. I am fully aware that God does not focus on our outward dressing but i do not think that God also smiles at a woman walking into his house almost naked where one can see her underwears when she sits down.

For offices and outlets that purposely ask female attendants to dress half naked to attract male clients and patrons, this actually sends a wrong signal to your customers but you know Nigerians will see wrong things happening and will keep sealed lips. Your customers will dwindle but you might know why you are losing customers because they will not complain to you.

Some local pepper soup joints actually sell their pepper soups and drinks alongside female attendants. The owners of such places will plan with male patrons who are willing to choose any female attendant they likes. This expalins why you go to some outlets and you see female attendants with drag-queen makeups and slutty outfits that expose their bodies. Why must a half naked female attendant serve you open foods to eat? Have you even thought about their total body hygiene? Most of these women have very bad –unkept body hygiene which is very dangerous to health.

I applaud women like Mrs.Chinwe. Ndidi. Ndubuisi, owner of Afrik Wears collections wuse2 Abuja, who uses her creative Male /Female African/Arabian/Turkish wears collections to educate our African women and men on decent and suitable dressings that boost their personality and protect their image. She believes that Women should wear outfits that covers their body very well and preserving their womanhood. What you wear says a lot about your entire Body/Personality Image. Wear what suits you and preserves your self dignity!!

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