I wore a (skirt and blouse) school uniform in Catholic school 1-12, and had a dress for going to Mass.
Straight out of HS I dressed kind of butch. I did not own a dress for approx. 15 years.
I have never owned cosmetics. I have worn make-up twice in my life: once when I was a bridesmaid (for one of Cesar Chavez' daughters, as it happens) and once when I was the bride: when I married. That's the *one* occasion I had my hair professionally "done". (Now my husband cuts my hair.)
Now I wear a dress/skirt every day. I wear a veil at Mass. Nobody has to, not even a woman who serves as, say, Reader.
My son has always been more interested in fashions than I am. That makes him... what? That makes me... what? Whom should I ask?
(I'm not saying this to challenge anyone. I'm just relaxed and musing.)
And it took several decades of marriage to kind of understand how my husband "feels". I'm a little obtuse on that score, but we love each other so dearly that we've both been willing to learn.
I don’t know what you are getting at. Are you saying that interest in fashion - female? I don’t think anyone believes that.
I think in the 1970s there was a time when girls and women never ever wore skirts and dresses. That era thankfully faded. I don’t want to wear jeans all the time. I love dresses. And some women truly don’t need makeup. Sometimes women with darker skin look beautiful without it. Dark natural lashes, even tanned skin, etc. if I had thick, long dark eyelashes like my daughter why would I ever wear eye makeup?