Letting most of it just hang out for Carnival

The young and slim look fabulous in the costumes consisting of a few beads here and some further beads there.

Topped with feathers, false eyelashes and flawless makeup, they are a joy to behold prancing and dancing in the streets.

Because this is TT where fat women are considered equally pretty, they dress exactly the same covered in the same few beads and plenty feathers.

Seemingly unembarrassed, I saw thong-like swimsuit costumes on some physically and numerically challenged women.

Here in TT we wear whatever is the latest style, never mind how brief the design of the costume.

What has size got to do with it? The priests and the pundits could cry scorn and preach about Sodom and Gomorrah and we don’t care.

We jamming still. People could laugh at how fat girls shaking down the town in thongs, but we jamming still.

We have the feminist lobbyists telling us to free up and wear what we want.

The men will still carry on with their raping and wounding, so we jamming still.

It has precious little to do with what we wear because men are still going to grab you.

This is the point at which we must redefine the meaning of the word “victim.” For Carnival 2017, fat, thin and in-between women were wining right down to the ground in their costumes.

The police reported they received no stories of women being attacked and that this Carnival was among the safest ever. See for yourselves in all the Carnival magazines.

TT women of all ethnicities, shapes and sizes were jamming and likely to do exactly the same jamming in 2018.

LYNETTE JOSEPH Diego Martin