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I don't see how.
Imagine it's a sunday, and you intend to stay at home, lounge around doing nothing, and not go out. Nobody is coming over. In short, you are not going to leave your house and nobody is going to see you. So, do you go put on a nice dress, do up your hair, and put on makeup and accessories? Remember, nobody is going to see you.
If you are normal, I assume you're just going to not dress up. If you DO dress up, then you are probably insane / neurotic. After all, the point of this stuff is to be seen. Feeling attractive is an outside feeling, in that when someone says they feel sexy, sexy means "attractive /appealing to others". In a sense, if you are the only human on Earth, feeling attractive or sexy is kind of impossible isn't it, since there's nobody else to attract!
I know a lot of women who live alone, and every single one of them only dresses up when they are going out, i.e. in a place where they can be seen (or when others come over).
But, we have unfair standards in our society which tell women that dressing purely for the purpose of attraction is slutty. But men still want women to dress that way. So what to do?
Invent the fiction that dressing up / wearing makeup is "purely for myself". Perfect. Young women today like the idea of a woman driven by her own self and desires, so wearing sexy clothing can now be done without shame because it's not JUST to attract a man, it's to feel good about yourself.
Which of course, is preposterous when you think about it, but convenient for us because now women dress the way we want them to dress by their own accord.
What's the real feminist solution? What should be done is for women to simply admit that the purpose of dressing up is to feel attractive and nothing more. Period. Then, remove any stigma attached to dressing purely for attraction.
If that's done, a lot of the complaints like we see here about Quiet could magically vanish.