[Wiser now]

They also do not realize that while they think they are projecting an image of a strong woman, they are really screaming their desire for a strong man in their lives.
The ultimate irony though, is that back in the forties and fifties we wore incredibly short shorts and halter tops during the summer, some of those tops were nothing more than a six inch strip of fabric with elastic on both edges. Granted, we probably put on a shirt before going to the grocery store, but still, in those days it wasn’t considered slutty at all!

[Albion Wilde]

The ultimate irony though, is that back in the forties and fifties we wore incredibly short shorts and halter tops during the summer, some of those tops were nothing more than a six inch strip of fabric with elastic on both edges. Granted, we probably put on a shirt before going to the grocery store, but still, in those days it wasn’t considered slutty at all!

I disagree on several points.

Women in general were much slimmer then, and did not have false breasts and pumped up backsides.

Women and teens then did not have enormous false breasts and pumped up backsides.

Women of that era, except for strippers or stage performers, did not wear a half-pound of eye makeup or cultivate a "duck lips" look.

None of the clothing in the 40s and 50s was made of stretchy, clinging polyester—it was cotton broadcloth or denim, so that even short shorts were not form-fitting.

Even two-piece bathing suits covered the entire buttock and up to the waist, and many had a modesty panel across the front that obscured the vaginal area. The bra portion covered the entire breasts, not even revealing much of the crack between them.

No one decent wore short shorts whose hems rose up above the curve of the buttock. Their fathers or husbands would have locked them in the house.

If all the complaints about patriarchy are true, remember that men of the time did not want to think of their wife as being sexually attractive to all men—husbands as well as fathers enforced an ethic of modesty, believing a wife should only reveal her most sexually attractive qualities to her husband.