A young woman who was pissed at being told that only women with a specific body type (ie slender) can wear specific clothes, decided to give the best answer to the question, using only four photos.
Η Sarah Petty, a 20-year-old student at Bowling Green State University in Sunbury, Ohio, observed that people on Twitter like to comment on what should and should not be worn by women who are overweight.
"I saw a tweet from someone saying that girls who weigh 100 pounds should not wear bikinis," he told HuffPost US. "(Then) I just did a few quick searches and found a lot of similar tweets, so I decided to do something on my part to fight body-shaming, any way I could."
Although the tweets she mentioned did not have her as a recipient, Petty could not ignore the cruelty they felt for the other women. So she decided to upload some of her own photos to Twitter, in order to comment on different versions of the same bitter and old-fashioned reasoning about women's bodies, while passing on an important message in favor of women's emancipation.
In one of her photos, Petty is wearing a bikini, in another a pair of leggings, in a third a shorts and in a fourth a t-shirt that leaves her belly exposed. They all have the caption the phrase: "Girls: Wear whatever the hell you want».
Petty's message is doubly important, as it promotes not only the general female emancipation but also, in particular, the positive attitude that we should all take towards different body types.
"I hope women realize how important it is to stop criticizing each other and (start) elevating each other," Petty told HuffPost. "We already have a lot to deal with, as women, we do not need to have women against us."
"I also hope that girls can distinguish who they really are from the number on their scales, and realize that there is no number, big or small, that determines if you deserve to feel beautiful," she added. "Body-shaming will always be there somehow, but I hope my posts will help at least some women feel beautiful, nonetheless."