InStyle's Mission: Saving Us From Spinsterhood

From InStyle’s “The Look,” February:

We’re also seeing a spike in the shoulders and a softer, more fluid reworking of last season’s mutton sleeves on schoolmarmish tops.  (You’re forgiven if you bought one, but you didn’t wear it on a date, did you?)  [emphasis ours]

Right.  How could we have forgotten?  We women are supposed to choose our clothing solely to look attractive to men, because our appearance is really the only thing we have to offer!  Nothing could be worse than wearing an unflattering mutton-sleeve top on a date, which almost certainly would doom us to dying alone and unloved.

Sheesh.  They are joking, right?

This isn’t InStyle’s first insinuation that women should dress to snare a man and that, without the proper clothing, garnering any kind of romantic attention would be nearly impossible.  Either they truly believe this garbage, or they just don’t know any better.  We don’t know which is worse.