You've gotta be kidding me. Will this issue never die? It's been pinching noses and puckering up prim lips for centuries. OK, I'll acknowledge two things before I reply: 1) I dress pretty conservatively (although that can be a relative term); 2) Lots of girls do dress pretty skanky these days. So I get where Pevey is coming from. But...

Maybe girls who hike it up and bend over want to attract a bad boy. Lighten up, Pevey. It takes all kinds. There's somebody for everybody. A girl who wants to look like a ho gets my respect for being herself every bit as much as a buttoned-up Chi O fingering her lavelier and dreaming of her wedding dress. Besides, big hairy dudes in leather chaps with a penchant for pole dancers need lovin' just as much as the average Young Republican with a medicine cabinet full of tooth whitener.

I'm not even going to get started on the analogy of marketability. OK, it's too late for me to get any real writing done, so I will. Price? Product? Shit, I didn't know a nice girl could be bought at any price. Do they have sales during rush? Can you get, like, two Delta Zeta pledges for the price of one if you drive a Lexus? What's the mark-up like when they get initiated? Listen, this is important. I don't think the general public had any idea that anybody other than a Cherry street junkie could be bought, and all you have to know to tell the difference in value is look at what the bitch is wearing.

But I do thank Pevey for finally settling, once and for all, the precise measures for discerning "slutty" as opposed to "sexy." But keep in mind, some people will get all philosophical about it, saying things like, "You can be sexy and not be a slut. You can be slutty and not be sexy. But if you're sexy AND a slut? Oooooooooooh, baaaaby."

Looking forward to Metro Pulse's classy rebuttal.

Sorry, I tend to agree with Ms. Pevey. There are parts of her discussion that may be over the line. Since she is a 1st year law student, she may have encountered the need to be more conservative in her dress and is trying to assist young ladies in their future endeavors.

You can definitely have fun dressing how you want, whether it sexy, slutty, conservative or prudish. I think, though, if you want to be taken seriously, if you truly want a long-term serious relationship, if you want to progress (or better yet lead) in your field, dressing sexy (or slutty) is not the way to go.

Youth is grand and do it (whatever it may be) while you can. Just make sure you live through it. Many of us in the Boomer generation are certainly breathing a sigh of relief that we are still here to enjoy the over 30 years. 

Duh,this is news? Some kind of 'everything old is new again'?

As one who, in bygone days, was known to occasionally venture forth looking like a hoochiemamma (or, as one friend used to call it, attired in "slutwear"), I have a body of hands-on research proving beyond a doubt that there was a huge difference in how I was treated based on how I was perceived. And I could pretty much control it (yes, children, men are easy -- like that's another news flash).

Who the heck dresses the same way for a job interview as for a night of pub-crawling; for meeting one's prospective mother-in-law or for hitting a friend's birthday party? Nobody who is serious about landing the job or impressing the future MIL, I submit.

This is fundamental stuff most of us learned at our granny's knee. And although the tone of the column is pretty insufferable, she may as well be saying that oranges are orange and a diet of whipped cream and mashed potatoes will make you fat. No revelations here.