Women, Fashion and Social Prejudice

This research focuses on women and social prejudice. Visually, we can see how the way Indonesian women dress changes over time, depending on the ruling truth regime. In the last ten years, the discourse that women (especially Muslim women) must dress fully covered has become quite dominant in Indonesia. This research focuses on people's willingness to engage and develop relationships with women who dress in a somewhat open manner. The liberal feminist theory was employed in this research. The theory aims to offer women the right to choose while also making them aware of the implications of their decisions. The main objective of this study is to show the responses that the women get when they choose to express themselves in ways that are different from what society expects. In this study, the survey research approach was employed. The results revealed a relatively high percentage of female respondents, with 48.4 percent of female respondents speaking negatively about women who wore relatively body-exposing clothes, compared to only 20 percent of male respondents. The significant number of women who speak badly about other women suggests that the respondent has the tendency to alienate women who do not conform to society's norms.