Written By: Mayowa Ogundele (@Ohluwamayowa)
So it seems my most interesting stories are inspired by real life events and today’s own is no different.
So it’s a Saturday morning and I’m sitting right across Samsung shop at Ikeja City Mall (Shoprite) backing two ladies who appear to be staff of the shop. The mall is not so busy and I’m waiting for friends of mine and these two ladies sitting on the same seat are whiling away time… GOSSIPING! But that’s not the gist.
Apparently, they are just as less busy as the mall itself and so the next be thing they could do was chat about this and that. They started with office gist and the on-going salary review which automatically means… late pay. But seriously, why do employers of labour do that? (that’s for another day).
So these ladies move along gist lane to talk about some haughty Shoprite female staff who stole items and was sent to the police station…
The topic immediately changed when a lady (most likely in her late 20’s or early 30’s) walked by in a oh-so-skimpy skirt. Of course that’s not the only thing she wore! She was decked in a blazer, shirt, power bag and power nude-coloured shoe but the only thing that caught the attention of all three of us (and God-knows-how-many-others) was that SKIMPY skirt which had a slit almost revealing her *cough cough.*
So there’s a little pause when the ladies taking their time ogling our skimpily dressed madame… a few more steps away from us and POW… she becomes the topic of the gossip session.
My dear gossip sisters commented about skimpy being a chic and those shoes?!… you gotta love em. Then one of the ladies said, “and she will say she wan marry o”!
That comment opened the floodgates of a new phase of the err… ‘discussion’? Anyways, the other PIG (partner-in-gossip) replied and said ‘Men like vain women A LOT’ and every man will want to associate with such a sophisticated lady. It is general knowledge that the ‘rich want to marry the rich’ and according to these ladies, only a man who is a ‘low-life’ would want to marry a normal woman!!! WHAT?!!!!!
One of them went on to comment that lots of married women dress skimpily so as to keep their men at home! The idea is: if our husbands keep falling over these semi-naked young ladies, we might as well go skimpy too…
So before you let your take on the issue flow in the comments… Consider this: In Nigeria, it is expected that a married woman conduct herself in a matured and decent fashion. However, the world is a global village now, which means we have been exposed to the cultures and orientation of other people of the world.
So the question is, is there a decent way for a Nigerian married woman and what is not?
