People choose their own clothes for their own reasons. What I wear at home, I may choose to go out in, or decide not to. Because when I go out, I know that people can see me and will (or won't) look at me based on their own level of interest. But someone looking at me? That doesn't harm me in any way. Do I dress so that people WILL look? To one level or another, yes AND no. But I can't control what people think, or what they do with their eyes. If someone comes up to me and feels that they have a right to engage me in conversation or comment on how I am dressed? Well, that's a matter of manners and social courtesy. If they are polite, I can be polite back. If they are a jackass, then I can be a bitch. They started the conversation, they set the tone, they took the risk and they get the outcome. Try to touch me because of how I am dressed because they think that I am "sending a message" and they know what that message is? They're going to pull back a stub or find themselves on the ground with a tight grouping of .38 inch holes in their chest.