In the episode, Zaria wears a revealing dress to a dance, against her parents’ wishes. Her boyfriend also objects to the way she's dressed and refuses to go with her. At the event, she attracts a young man who misjudges her character because of her clothes. When she rejects his advances, he gets angry with her for dressing in a way to mislead him.
Ultimately, Zaria realizes that she’s judged by the way she dresses.
“It’s an issue that affects teenage girls and women today,” Gomez-Preston said. “Fortunately, I myself have not been in that situation. But you don’t have to go up to the experience to know what it's like.”
According to Townsend, it’s messages like the one in Sunday’s epsidoe that make the show different. “When I heard about the idea, I was excited,” he said. “I want the show to be timely.”
As for the reaction of network executives, Townsend said they, too, were behind the show.
“The censors really embraced [the concept],” he said. “I’ve seen [the episode] and it’s disturbing on a level because we really push it. You know something is going to happen on a deep level.”
Said Townsend: “I think it’s important to understand that you can be very funny and say something as well.”
- Clothes Encounter With Harassment, NYDailyNews.com, October 17, 1996.
3. In early 1952 many Johnson Citians were probably less than pleased to learn that Look Magazine had named the city as one of the “Hot Spots for Vice in the U.S.” It was not the kind of distinction favored by the Chamber of Commerce.
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