Tight, wide, elephant-legged and then still short, long, boyfriend or momfit version; jeans are that essential piece of clothing for all of us, our daily bread that colors our looks and makes them special.
We have thousands of them but we keep on buying them just for the sake of leaving them there, thrown between a sweater and a sweatshirt, and then maybe give them a shot of scissors and make them into a pair of very comfortable shorts.
They are good for everyone and they can’t, what I mean, they don’t have to imply a consent for sexual intercourse.
This is what happened in the 90s to an eighteen year old girl, she was learning to drive with her drive coach; she was wearing a pair of skinny jeans; probably the first ones on the market at the time. Maybe she was as clumsy as I was, maybe the next day she had the Greek version or the English literature test or even thought about her first crush.
Time a few seconds and her life has changed forever: from that damn day on she had to face hearings, courts, fear of not being believed, of not recognizing her body looking in the mirror or even worse she felt wrong, guilty only because the Court of Cassation held that in that case it wasn’t rape because who wears skinny jeans can’t afford to say NO; in fact she was almost certainly also consenting even if the affirmative proposition didn’t come out of her mouth; but from her jeans yes, according to the law.
This emblematic case has managed to connect the world of fashion with that of social justice: Denim Day was born, an April day entirely dedicated to victims of abuse, rape and violence with the aim of launching a message that in our time, despite all the battles, is still not clear.
Men and women, boys and girls on this day are invited to wear their favorite pair of jeans, with which they feel comfortable and parade through the streets of the city center.
With the advent of Covid-19 this was not possible; so on the world’s most useless social media one of the coolest and at the same time most exciting challenges I’ve ever seen was born: on Tik Tok girls but also male boys wore the clothes they went out with the day they were abused, mocked or simply received the so called “pat” from those who felt authorized to do so only because they were “big” or “beautiful”.
Other girls showed their heads held high in shredded, stained jeans; the symbol of the aggression that took place, yet as it should be, they didn’t try it. They are proud and have bright eyes, but above all they want to tell you that you are behind the screen that you are worth much more than how they treated you inhumanly.
Maybe this will be the umpteenth challenge or the umpteenth fight that leaves a little ‘time that finds or maybe not, it can be a more creative and lightweight way to help those who are or have been victims to speak, to denounce.
It can make you understand in a stronger and more direct way that it’s not the skirt, it’s not the shorts nor the skinny ones that make you fall into temptation; it’s not you, your way of making up, of walking, if a (human) being wants to be a bastard he does it, without justifications or extenuating circumstances.
The most important issue that must necessarily be understood is that nobody is excluded; whatever gender you belong to, you must use your voice and your jeans!
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