Who Wrote the Book?

Tell me please who wrote the book?
Who penned the rules on how we look?
Who set in stone how we should act?
Who made opinion speak as fact?

Who decreed what we should wear?
What type of shoes, what shade of hair?
We're free to choose, or so I thought,
So who decides what hem's too short?

"You can't wear those, you're much too fat"
"You're five-foot-one, you can't wear that",
"The styles you like are far too young"
These songs it seems are too oft sung.

Plaudits go to those who quest
To mould a six-pack 'neath their vest,
While other folks with "beer keg" guts
Receive instead snide sneers and tuts.

Tell me please who's on the side
Of those less tall and those more wide?
Of those less young who don't feel old?
Of those of us who will not fold?

Who ruled that girls should have plump lips?
Be pencil thin and have no hips?
And who ordained that "double D"
Should stand above cups A and B?

If she wears jeans, her boyfriend's shirts
Why's he barred from wearing skirts?
Tell me likewise what's the harm
If nature guides her underarm?

How was it that the "VPL"
Became the height of fashion hell?
Yet why should thongs above the waist
Be held by some to scream bad taste?

Who then deemed it's now top-notch
That young men sport a baggy crotch?
Socks with sandals? Piercings? Ink?
Whose thoughts are shaping what we think?

Who held that women of mounting age
Should dress in brown, in cream, in beige?
And old men don V-neck and tie?
Who wrote the rules that we're ruled by?

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copyright D M Pamment 25/5/2012