Some time ago, a great Chinese woman exploded the Internet, and her name is a little strange to many people compared to movie stars - pianist Wang Yujia. Without a doubt, she is one of the top pianists today.
However, in addition to her super high performance level, there has been a lingering "dressing controversy".
What do you imagine a piano concert in a world-class concert hall look like? Female pianists should wear elegant and modest dresses or suits, right? But Wang Yujia was not. She said, "Who rules that playing the piano requires a proper and conservative dress? ”
So, let's start with her and talk about the freedom to dress.
This year, Wang Yujia accomplished a very powerful thing. She completed a four-hour marathon concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in the United States, where she performed five of Rachmaninoff's piano and orchestra works, which was praised by the audience as a "once in a lifetime" experience.
The collective presentation of five difficult works in one concert is almost unheard of, and it is a challenge for the pianist's memory, physical endurance and piano skills. During the performance, there was even an audience member who fainted with excitement and was rushed to the hospital by the staff, staging a scene that is usually seen only in the concert of a boy group, and conductor Yannick knelt in front of Wang Yujia in front of the world.
For each song, Wang Yujia will change into a dress to choose and match for him, and five beautiful costumes echo five works with different styles. Each one is unconventional, or off-the-shoulder, backless, or low-cut dresses, and she also wears the iconic sky-hating high heels under her feet. There is also wheat-colored healthy skin and muscle lines revealed in the passionate performance, which makes Wang Yujia look more confident and eye-catching.
But Wang Yujia, who is so personal, talented and different, has always been questioned because of his unique dressing style.
In the early days of her debut, Wang Yujia chose a short skirt and high heels during the performance, and the media unabashedly criticized and ridiculed her skirt for being too short, not only "suitable for children", but also without the slightest classical temperament, until now, some people think that she is "unsightly" and "dressed too little, distracting the audience".
Even such a dazzling piano queen on the international stage cannot escape the "stereotype" of women in society, and she will still be sneered at for wearing her favorite skirt and playing the piano. What about ordinary girls?
Even today, there are many women who are raped online just because of their clothes, which is by no means an exception, and they are even scolded for depression.
Back in 2019, Reiza, who was not yet a film queen at that time, was attacked by netizens for taking a photo on the street of the airport, simply because she wore a tight slip top.
Although some people with normal views praised her figure and confidence, some people rushed to carry out a large number of judgments: disorderly, open chest leakage, and bad customs, which triggered a big online debate about "freedom of dressing".
At that time, Reiza did not flinch in the slightest, but bravely spoke up and expressed his views. In her opinion, the matter of how girls wear clothes has not risen to the level of "freedom and non-freedom", she said, "Women are not commodities, there are no rules". What kind of clothes women wear should not be a topic, "not discussing" is ideal. How can the choice of a very personal aesthetic tendency become a social "public case".
Last year, a term "girl wearing crop top was questioned by a strange aunt" appeared on the hot search. A female college student was in the elevator and was questioned by the woman who was riding in the "crop top" because she was wearing a "crop top", and asked her "Are your parents willing"? We are willing to understand this aunt's "worry" from the kindest perspective, perhaps she is afraid that such a dress will cause the girl to encounter some danger.
After all, Mr. Lu Xun wrote an extremely incisive sentence, "When I see short sleeves, I immediately think of white arms, I immediately think of full nudity, I immediately think of genitals, I immediately think of sexual intercourse, I immediately think of hybridization, I immediately think of illegitimate children..." The kind of "the reason why you are violated is because your skirt is too short" still exists today.
This disgusting male gaze makes women tremble throughout their lives. Shall we fight? Want! Because of the struggle of women in history, we today get rid of shapewear that is harmful to health, pants and skirts that wrap the whole body, and have cheongsam, dresses, pants, and bikinis.
Not only will you be scolded for "dressing less" and "showing more", even if you wrap yourself tightly, you will be blamed, those girls in Hanfu, those sisters in Lolita style, those handsome girls who dress neutrally... Each of these will fall prey to cyberattacks because of the narrow-mindedness and prejudice of some people.
"A good girl can't wear clothes like this." Let this rhetoric go a little farther. If Madame Chanel believed this, we would still be able to wear skirts, not trousers on formal occasions; If Mr. Saint Laurent had believed, women would not have worn handsome suits like men.
So, the so-called "freedom to dress" means wearing whatever you want? Yes, and not only. It is a protest against the traditional labelled gender aesthetic, a revolt of women from the male gaze and objectification. No matter how much you wear or how little you wear, what kind of style it is, the first thing to follow is your own preferences and personality choices, not who you wear it for and who you show it.
Written by: Yoshiki
Image source: CFP, video screenshots, Weibo