The recent Bored Panda story about the girl in Kamloops BC who was sent home from school for wearing a turtle neck and a ‘slip’ dress got me thinking about how much women and girls are judged for what they wear. And how much females are blamed when they are assaulted or harassed.

Then I found out about an art exhibition is displaying the clothes people were wearing when they were assaulted.

“The exhibition, titled “What Were You Wearing?”, was created by sexual violence and intimate partner violence survivor advocates Dr. Wyandt-Hiebert and Ms. Brockman after hearing a poem by Dr. Mary Simmerling, titled “What I Was Wearing” during a conference. It deeply affected them and inspired them to create a visual representation of the poem. The exhibition was first held at the University of Arkansas back in 2014 and featured clothes and stories of the students. The aim of the exhibition is to prove that clothes have nothing to do with initiating sexual violence.” (From Demilked)