Fashion as Female Imprisonment

I somehow am signed up for the mailing list for some department store emails, and one in particular claims that “feminine” silhouettes are all the rage this season. They seem to define femininity in relation to bows, ruffles, and other embellishments that are seen as delicate. This seems to belittle women, and keep them at a sort of premature age, as if they are unable to grow up and become independent. It also restricts femininity to this delicate phase, implying that females are too fragile to do anything for themselves, thus hindering a sense of independence. Fashion like this also emphasizes emaciated bodies that seem unable to reproduce. Thus, men confine women to domesticity by depriving them of a sense that they have the possibility of independence.