There are many different cultures and different styles that people may have. Some styles may be forced because of religious reasons or laws and others simply can make a personal choice for what they wear and how they wear it. Different countries have different laws and in some cases a lot of countries have strong religious beliefs that may control a lot of the countries way of living. Historically, European and Euro-American women were not underdressed compared to women in Asia and the Middle East. The standards for women's clothing varied somewhat from the medieval period up until the end of World War I. Most common clothing had necklines rising or falling and arms being covered more or less, though there has never been a Euro-American equivalent to purdah or full veiling overall the prevailing trend remained concealing with voluminous skirts falling near the ankle, pants were deemed inappropriate for women, and the shoulders and décolletage generally were covered in …show more content…
In Canada, toplessness is not an indecent act on the basis that the act of being topless is not in itself a sexual act or indecent,In 1991, Gwen Jacob was arrested for walking in a street in Guelph, Ontario while topless. She was acquitted in 1996 by the Ontario Court of Appeal due to this. To a woman of a non western culture that would be considered suicide to walk around topless especially in a place like Saudi Arabia where a woman isn't allowed to show but an inch of her skin.There are some similarities between western and non western culture in this case , in western culture you cannot have certain private areas visible through clothing. The way that you are punished in western culture is by a fine or being placed in holding in a police station. Compared to being whipped 40+ times in a place like Sudan , that would be considered as time out for a