Why did Faith dress like a prostitute?

But Faith didn't dress like a prostitute or slut at all to me, she wore wifebeaters, jeans, pants, denim jackets, combat boots. She looked like a tough girl. IMO Season 1 Buffy's outfits were more provocative than anything Faith ever dressed in.
 
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I agree
But Faith didn't dress like a prostitute or slut at all to me, she wore wifebeaters, jeans, pants, denim jackets, combat boots. She looked like a tough girl. IMO Season 1 Buffy's outfits were more provocative than anything Faith ever dressed in.
What is a wifebeater?
 
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unless I'm much mistaken, it's a men's style undershirt, not too unlike a tank top.
A "wife beater" is a type men's undershirt. They are typically tight, white tank tops but come in more colors than just white. They are borderline racer back, but not quite. They come in large packages at places like Walmart.
 
It's a shirt made out of men who beats their wives. Lol. I don't know how to describe the shirt.

LOL!!!

Yeah what the above answers said, I can't link to a pic but she wears white ones throughout Season 3 & they are definitely not prostitute clothing.
 
I did not read all the thread, just the first page but here my point of view:

I'm studying to become a psychologist, and if there's one thing I see often in every kind of situation is a mild form of reaction formation. From wikipedia: "In psychoanalytic theory, reaction formation is a defensive process (defense mechanism) in which anxiety-producing or unacceptable emotions and impulses are mastered by exaggeration (hypertrophy) of the directly opposing tendency."

In other words, some people felt the urge to act in a certain way but because of their moral values they decide they can't, and they behave the exact opposite way and start HATING every single person on this earth that's living their life and didn't suppress their own nature.
Examples: Westboro Baptist Church or being really really prude.

Here in Italy we have a saying: "la malizia sta negli occhi di chi guarda", wich roughly translates into "malice is in the eyes of the beholder".
 
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I really, really like that saying.
Here in Italy we have a saying: "la malizia sta negli occhi di chi guarda", wich roughly translates into "malice is in the eyes of the beholder".

Yup. Or, in Marshall speak: "Skin tight leather pants is in the eyes of the beholder". 😀 I loved the way Faith dressed. She couldn't have dressed any other way. I mean, a bad-ass like her strutting around in flower dresses and D&G hand bags wouldn't mesh. 😛
 
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I'm of the opinion that people dress to represent their identity, often subconsciously. If you're a shy person, I don't think you'd often go for bold prints, and so forth.

This is exemplified a lot more on TV, as is everything.

Was Faith's identity that of a prostitute? No.

It was of a strong, sexually confident woman, and that is how she dressed.
 
Oh, I definitely don't. I think her clothing comes from, as many have already stated, a mix of where she came from and as a form of armor/costume. I think how you view her clothing may also be at least partially influenced by where you live and what you have seen. Here in Seattle, I've pretty much seen it all, so this is isn't unusual by any means to me. Additionally, i see her clothing oftimes to be like Spike's costume he uses for his external persona. We know that Faith had no one. It was survival. Everytime you choose a hairstyle/color and make up colors and clothing style and colors you are choosing your external persona. Do you want to be seen as intimidating or submissive? As innocent or not? I have dressed like Faith before and like Buffy. Whether i am covered in pastels one day or red and black with my curves and cleavage showing i am still the same person inside. So is Faith, but she is much more concerned, i think, with what she shows and what she hides from the outside world. She is virtually isolated, at least emotionally, from the oustide world. Her clothing is her way of saying "fine, i don't want to be (socially) accepted anyway." I saw her clothing as fitting her character. Also, i see it as at least a bit of a power thing...
 
Never ever recall how bad her way to dress would make her a lady of the night. During the 1990’s that was an ideal way to dress – if you were looking for a darker side of human life. Second, would not have Buffy made any comment about her way of dress: as Buffy and Faith sometimes worked with each other during the night. So no, I do not see her as a lady of the night during any time she was on the show.
 
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aww, I love how you say "lady of the night" So cute! :heart:
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haha I like "lady of the night" too
I thought she looked incredibly sexy, not trashy. There is a huge difference. She was confident in her sexuality, and she expressed it through her clothes and her body language.

I absolutely HATE IT when people see a sexually confident woman, and automatically call her a whore or something to that effect. So, are woman supposed to look pretty all the time and show zero signs of sexuality or personality?

No thanks, I'd rather be a man.
 
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She dress as a normal bad girl of the 1990s. There was never anything that she said or anyone else said to say she was a lady of the night. Now, with Buffy when she was in the Movie "I know what you did last Summer" you can say she dressed like a whore. But, that is a different movie.
 
I don't understand the point of saying that someone dresses like a whore or a slut, because it's obviously done in the purpouse of putting someone down. I think a woman should be able to dress any way she wants to. And a whore can dress in jeans and a tshirt. It's not the clothing that unites, it's the selling sex for money. And if I met someone that did that I wouldn't want to put them down either. I would want to support them to get another job.

Like Margaret Cho said:

I could learn from you instead of feeling judged by you. Give the less loved and less cared for and less treasured a chance.
 
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