womens clothing |
- Mysterious, stained, cut-up women's clothes found behind Fair Lawn home - NorthJersey.com
- Mysterious pile of sliced-up women's clothes found in woods around N.J. neighborhood - NJ.com
- ‘Think of the mothers of sons’: Notre Dame mom begs female students to stop wearing leggings, sparking protests - The Washington Post
- 'You're a man in women's clothing': 22-year-old says he was dress coded for wearing makeup and high heels - Yahoo Lifestyle
| Mysterious, stained, cut-up women's clothes found behind Fair Lawn home - NorthJersey.com Posted: 27 Mar 2019 06:33 AM PDT A pile of cut-up clothing was found in the woods behind a home on 11th Street in Fair Lawn, and now police are trying to see if people can identify the clothing. Over the weekend, Dave Carota's 5-year-old daughter, wife and his daughter's two friends found the clothes in the strip of woods behind their house and brought them to his attention. Carota identified the bundle as women's clothing and called the Bergen County Sheriff's Office after becoming concerned, said Sgt. Brian Metzler. "We felt like it was too out of the ordinary," Carota said. The clothes appear to have been in the woods for several months and include a white bra with reddish and dark stains that was cut in the front; a pair of dirty Goldsign jeans with a portion of the right side ripped or cut; a medium cobalt blue thong; and a seafoam green shirt with reddish and dark stains. The shirt also appears to have been cut or ripped in half. "Every piece of clothing was cut," Carota said. "That was the most startling thing." Metzler said authorities have yet to determine what the stains are. "It's hard to tell if it's blood stains or just from being in the woods," he said. The police have not been able to connect the clothing to any sort of crime, victim or incident but are asking people if they recognize the clothing or know anything about it. Until the clothing has been linked to a crime or a victim, it can't be accepted for testing, Metzler said. The Fair Lawn Police Department does not have the ability to test whether or not the stains are blood, and Metzler said the hope is to find a match from a tip. If they get a match, they can attempt to send the clothes for testing to the state police. CHARTER SCHOOL INVESTIGATION: Millions of your tax dollars have disappeared into NJ's flawed charter school experiment NJ LOTTERY: Mega Millions winning numbers for Tuesday, March 26 PARAMUS: 'Boutique' apartments open in Paramus, reflecting borough's new zoning The police have received a few phone calls about the clothing but nothing has matched what was found, Metzler said. Since Fair Lawn doesn't have a large homeless population and the police would have received calls if someone was living in the strip of woods, Metzler said it is unlikely the clothes belong to someone who is homeless. The strip of woods sits between 11th Street and Route 208 and isn't very dense. Metzler said he's seen a lot of theories online but the police don't have any just yet. Thank you! You're almost signed up for Keep an eye out for an email to confirm your newsletter registration. Carota said he and his family have lived on the second floor of the split-level home for the past 13 years and, while it sometimes serves as a pass-through for people, it's not an area where people hang out. Anyone with any information on the clothing can reach out to the Fair Lawn Police Department at 201-736-1400. Nearing your monthly article limit?
Read or Share this story: https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/fair-lawn/2019/03/27/mysterious-stained-cut-up-womens-clothes-found-behind-fair-lawn-home/3285736002/  |
| Mysterious pile of sliced-up women's clothes found in woods around N.J. neighborhood - NJ.com Posted: 26 Mar 2019 08:32 AM PDT When his wife and young daughter found a woman's discarded clothing balled up in the woods near their Bergen County house on Monday, Dave Carota knew he had to call the police. "I told my wife that it looked suspicious," said Carota, of Fair Lawn. Fearing it could be the result of foul play, he called authorities to report the discovery. They came out immediately and started an investigation. His family and neighbors are "unsettled" by the find, Carota said. The garments, a pair of size 28 jeans, a 36D bra, a Ralph Lauren Polo-brand T-shirt and underwear, had been cut, Carota said. "Every single article was clothing had been cut in a way to suggest it was cut off whoever was wearing it," he said. He posted images of the clothing to Facebook, along with a description of how they were found, in hopes that someone might know what happened. While one theory could be that it was done by a paramedic treating an accident victim, Carota noted that the items seemed to have been deliberately bunched up and placed at the spot where they were found, rather than being dragged by animals or blown by the wind. The items were several hundred feet from Route 208. "It was placed where it was found," Carota said. The clothes were about 25 feet from his family's garage. Authorities also noted that paramedics would have cleaned up after treating someone. The highway is a major route through the region, Carota said, so he felt sharing his story on Facebook was a good way to reach anyone who may have information. Some commenters on social media have suggested a discoloration on the bra could be dried blood, but police noted that it could have been the result of the garment laying out among decomposing leaves in the woods all winter, Carota said. Officials believe the clothing may have been there for months.  A close-up of the Goldsign jeans and Polo-brand T-shirt found in the woods. (Facebook) Identifying the owner of the clothes won't be easy, authorities said. Fair Lawn Police Sgt. Brian Metzler said the items cannot be tested for DNA evidence because it's not associated with any known crime. That's just standard practice for forensic analysis, he said. "The county and state won't accept the clothes unless we can associate it with something," Metzler said. The department is asking anyone with information about the discovery to contact them at 201-796-1400. In the meantime, the department will keep the clothing in case more is learned. Carota said he's never seen anything suspicious in the small wooded area, which he described as state land. "We've been back in those woods every other day for the last 13 years," he said. While it's possible the clothing was placed as a prank or dropped there by teens, Carota felt he had to share the information with as many people as possible. He's hoping for a reasonable explanation. "God forbid it is as sinister as it appears to be," he wrote on Facebook. "We would want someone doing the same if it were one of our loved ones, or our daughter who once wore the clothes." Matt Gray may be reached at mgray@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @MattGraySJT. Find NJ.com on Facebook. Have a tip? Tell us: nj.com/tips. Get the latest updates right in your inbox. Subscribe to NJ.com's newsletters.  |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2019 02:44 AM PDT  An overhead view of the University of Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Ind. (Nicole Abbett/NHLI/Getty Images) While attending Mass at the University of Notre Dame last fall, Maryann White saw something that horrified her: leggings. A group of young women, all clad in clingy Spandex and short tops, were sitting directly in front of her and her family. "I thought of all the other men around and behind us who couldn't help but see their behinds," the self-described Catholic mother of four sons wrote in a letter to the editor that was published by the Observer, Notre Dame's student newspaper, on Monday. "My sons know better than to ogle a woman's body — certainly when I'm around (and hopefully, also when I'm not). They didn't stare, and they didn't comment afterwards. But you couldn't help but see those blackly naked rear ends. I didn't want to see them — but they were unavoidable. How much more difficult for young guys to ignore them." Begging female students to "think of the mothers of sons the next time you go shopping and consider choosing jeans instead," White said in her letter, adding that she hopes leggings eventually will go out of style. Maybe, she proposed, Notre Dame women could start a trend by simply choosing not to wear the wildly popular stretchy pants. Her plea appears to have had the opposite effect: By way of responding to her complaints, more than 1,000 students at the private Catholic University in South Bend, Ind., indicated that they planned to wear leggings to class this week. Debates about whether it's appropriate to wear casual, form-fitting yoga pants outside of the gym have been raging for years. Numerous high schools have courted controversy by banning leggings in recent years, claiming that they are "distracting" for male students and teachers. But college campuses, for the most part, have remained a haven for those who choose to wear comfortable Lycra or Spandex bottoms to class, meals and campus activities. In her letter, titled "The legging problem," White described the pants as "a problem that only girls can solve." She claimed that the depiction of women in movies, video games and music videos made it harder for Catholic mothers to "teach their sons that women are someone's daughters and sisters" and should be treated with respect. Although she acknowledged the main reason college students like to wear leggings — namely, they're extremely comfortable — White went on to imply that it wasn't too different from walking around without any clothes on at all. "We don't go naked because we respect the other people who must see us," she said, adding, "I'm fretting both because of unsavory guys who are looking at you creepily and nice guys who are doing everything to avoid looking at you." That line of argument didn't go over too well on campus. "Join in our legging wearing hedonism!" one student wrote on Facebook, informing the "legging lovers of the Notre Dame community" that Tuesday would be "Love Your Leggings Day" at the university. "Or not, because what you wear is completely your own choice!" A student group, Irish 4 Reproductive Health, similarly declared Tuesday to be "Leggings Pride Day." On Facebook, the group explained that White's letter, although well-intentioned, "perpetuates a narrative central to rape culture" by implying that women's clothing choices are to blame for men's inappropriate behavior. People of all genders were invited to "make a conscious choice to wear leggings and thus affirm your right and ability to do so," then post photos on social media. Although more than 1,000 people responded to the group's Facebook event, it's unclear exactly how many took part. Dani Green, a PhD student in English at Notre Dame and a founding member of the group, told The Washington Post in a Twitter message that it had been "a little difficult to tell what was protest and what was everyday legging-wear," in part because the two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. Yet another informal demonstration took place Wednesday, the Observer reported. Named "The Legging Protest," it was organized by Kaitlyn Wong, a senior who wrote, in parody of White's letter, "I'm just a Catholic woman who feels the need for one specific type of pant that provides utmost comfort: leggings." She asked people of all genders to express their solidarity by wearing their favorite pair of leggings that day. Again, more than 1,000 people expressed interest. "Unfortunately," one participant wrote, "I could not find Maryann on [Facebook] to invite her and her four sons to ogle us on Wednesday." Wong told the paper that she had organized the event in hopes that it would lead to a larger campus discussion about White's comments, which she had found troubling. "You know, we were having these conversations in my class, but I wanted this to be a more widespread conversation," she said. "Even if it's not a 'protest,' having people talk about it is better than sitting around and doing nothing." The Post was unable to locate White or her sons for comment on Wednesday night. Although some online commenters suggested that the letter could have been the work of a troll trying to stir up outrage, or an early April Fools' Day joke, Green told The Post that it was "unfortunately . . . kind of on brand" for the campus community. She pointed to a 2011 letter to the editor titled, "Ladies, be decent," in which a then-junior man railed against an unnamed woman who supposedly displayed a "lack of class and common sense" by wearing a skintight outfit to the dining hall. "If a woman apparently doesn't respect herself enough to present herself in a non-risqué manner in everyday life, I cannot trust her to respect me," the letter said. "I'd be wary about pursuing anyone like that." But those views evidently don't represent the majority of the 12,393 students who attend Notre Dame. Several male students told the Observer that they thought that White's letter had unfairly maligned men, while others wrote rebuttals arguing that college students should know how to behave and be capable of treating women with respect, regardless of what they're wearing. "To my female classmates, wear what you want," Shane Combs, a senior at the university, wrote in a letter to the editor that was published Wednesday. "How you dress for Mass is not a reflection of your character, nor does it disqualify you from dignified and respectful treatment from the rest of us." Amid the flurry of letters condemning White's views, two freshmen did spring to her defense, arguing that her complaints about leggings were simply representative of a generational divide, and not an indication that she thinks that women who wear revealing clothing are asking to be sexually assaulted. "Custody of the eyes and chastity of thought are difficult to accomplish for any man," Maria Keller and William Gentry wrote. "We members of the Notre Dame community have obligations of love to one another, which includes being our brothers' keepers. It is no assault on women's rights to suggest that we ought to dress modestly to help our brothers out, just as we should consider what we eat around our Muslim friends when they are fasting for Ramadan." Meanwhile, another Notre Dame mother, Heather Piccone, questioned whether White's sons had ever taken their shirts off at the beach. "Women find male chests and abs attractive like men find women's legs attractive," she wrote in a letter published Tuesday. "By her own definition and logic, any male out playing on a sunny day at the park with his friends should be ashamed of himself, and as a mother she should have properly raised her son not to tempt my daughter with his body." More from Morning Mix: 'Lawyering while black': Maryland deputy accused attorney of being a suspect, complaint says  |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2019 12:00 AM PDT   Ben Rios says a nightclub in Corpus Christi, Texas wouldn't allow him inside because he was wearing women's shoes. The nightclub says that's not true. (Photo: Facebook/Ben Rios) A Texas nightclub denies accusations it stopped a gay man wearing stiletto heels and makeup from entering. On Saturday night, Ben Rios, 22, a retail sales associate, went to VoodDoo Niteclub in Corpus Christi, Texas, for a friend's birthday party. Outside, he showed his ID card to a host, who allegedly said that Rios — wearing makeup and sparkly silver high heels — was breaking dress code. "When I arrived, I was stopped at the door and DENIED entry for wearing makeup and wearing heels," Rios wrote on Facebook Sunday. "…The door guy bluntly said 'You're a man, you're not supposed to be wearing women's clothing or makeup' and simply turned [his] back. I refuse to let this go and my voice needs to be heard!" As a semi-regular VooDoo patron, Rios usually wears jeans, but that night he wanted to dress up. Rios tells Yahoo Lifestyle the employee allowed his friends (who wore jeans and T-shirts) inside, then gave him a look. "He said, 'You're out of dress code' and turned his back to me," says Rios. "I persisted and he said, 'You're a man in women's clothing.'" Rios left with his friends. "People asked why I didn't record anything but it was over in 45 seconds," he says. On Monday, Voodoo wrote a Facebook statement to explain why Rios was held up at the door: Over St. Patrick's Day weekend, two men wearing women's clothing allegedly entered the club and were allowed to use the women's restroom. "…these two men pulled out their cell phones and began to record women that were using the facilities," read VooDoo's statement. "Several women approached management upset that two men dressed as women were in the women's restroom recording them without their consent." The men left and the women chose to not speak to off-duty police officers working inside the club, said VooDoo. A spokesperson from the Corpus Christi Police Department did not return Yahoo Lifestyle's information request. VooDoo wrote that when Rios and his friends showed up on Saturday, the employee thought Rios might be one of the culprits because he "matched the description." He held Rios at the door and called for the manager, but when he arrived, Rios and his friends had left. "We welcome every customer," wrote VooDoo. "We do not support any homophobic action in denying our customers entry. We welcome with open arms every race and we welcome anyone regardless of their gender-based clothing. We have men dressed as women all the time come into our club and vice versa. We apologize that this incident occurred. However, it is of the utmost importance that we protect all of our customers while on the premises. Owner Eddie Dijiali tells Yahoo Lifestyle, "The host could not have explained the reason why this customer was held at the door — we did not want to make him feel guilty for something he may have not done, or have him run if he was, in fact, a suspect." Dijiali says his employee denies telling Rios that his outfit broke dress code and that Rios is wearing a different outfit in his Facebook post. VooDoo is adding two unisex bathrooms to make customers more comfortable. "Could the employee have handled it better? Yes," says Dijiali. "The customer is welcome to come back wearing women's shoes and makeup." The venue called Rios to apologize, but Rios says the employee was non-transparent. "My experience is being treated as a misunderstanding but it wasn't," he tells Yahoo Lifestyle. "This was about my clothing." Read more from Yahoo Lifestyle: Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for nonstop inspiration delivered fresh to your feed, every day.  |
| You are subscribed to email updates from "womens clothing" - Google News. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | |
.JPG)
0 Yorumlar