Bras are worn for many reasons – among them are comfort, appearance, or to conform to social expectations.
Societies' emphasis on appearance and pressure to conform to contemporary ideals has been translated into activities such as dieting, exercise and 'weight watching' [ 22].
Mr. Vespa retorted that he had cut 12 minutes from Mr. Berlusconi's taped appearance in an effort to conform to Italy's new law on political advertising, which requires broadcasters to give political adversaries equal time.
But that is not how everyone wants to live, not all the time, not even among people who agree to conform in appearance, like Ms. Rafat and Ms. Gindy.
Irrational memes — which are more interesting, and more diabolical, and which Deutsch thinks of as summing up the essential character of pre-Enlightenment societies — reproduce themselves by disabling the capacities of their hosts (by means of fear, or an anxiety to conform, or the appearance of naturalness and inevitability, or in any number of other ways) to evaluate or invent new ideas.
A study by Jung and Forbes (2006) suggests that women in cultures such as South Korea, where increased opportunities for women produced a marked shift toward gender equality, are likely to experience increased pressures to conform to unrealistic appearance standards.
With an influx of Western media images and practices since the 1990s (Shim 2006), South Korean women seem to experience increased pressures to conform to unrealistic appearance standards that emulate Western body ideals.
During the election, much was made of the extra pressure that Clinton was under to conform to expectations of appearance and behaviour.
Kurtzman and Elder desired to have a more "lovable" Goodman, so Elder reworked Goodman's appearance in later stories, redrawing Goodman's features to conform with this new look for later reprintings of the "Goodman Meets T rz n" story.
We assumed that participants might use completion rules to conform to the required "random appearance" of sequences.
By all means remained well groomed (which is a different matter from appearance) but don't feel that you have to conform.
