Streetfilms

Yea, I like wearing stripper shoes and bikinis when I bike around LA. After hearing and being inspired by so many women at the women bike conference, I found the fashion show disappointing and pandering to women. It should have been called "Only wear this if you want to be harassed on your bike fashion show."

Not to mention that many of those clothes would be impossible to wear on a bike. And I know, because I have actually showed up on a bike at an event in a formal dress and high heels! If they want to shows those over-the-top "fashion" statements, at least show that you can wear anything on a bike.

Most of the people I spoke to thought it was pretty disappointing.

Real Bike Gal, Thumbs up, you beat me to the punch. So the women's summit decried the current role of women in cycling as models to hawk goods (with T&A) and serve as podium girls (note they are referred to as girls), yet the cycle chic show had plenty of overtly sexualized women showing how chic bikes can be. This was merely marketing of bicycling and bicycles using high heels, hot pants, bikini tops and other scanty clothing. Mixed messages? Hypocrisy? I also think the whole chic thing helps define yet another stratification of cycling and doesn't really do anything to create mass appeal of bikes/biking.