Ironically, in Islam, the blame for being sexually provocative has fallen on the female.
In response to the inability of men to control their baser instincts, it was decided to make the female form altogether invisible and make women wear clothing that covers the entire body in black (even to eye covering).
The result acknowledges that men are beasts, but women are punished (protected) from the male procreative instincts.
That is half the truth. All women know men are beasts, with the male procreative instinct often thinking for the male. Men call this their lower brain. Mothers teach this to their daughters and women teach this to each other. They all have similar stories and observations. They also teach each other and learn how to take advantage of this, to gain leverage. Withholding and offering sex, from/to a sex starved male, can be used like a training tool; stick and carrot, to help a women change her man into what she thinks he should be. All wives try to do this, with some more successful. Women will use sex and sex appeal like a tool to gain leverage.
As an analogy, consider the situation of women who like shoes, to an exaggerated degree. Say each day, I brought a new pair of designer women's shoes to work and display them on my desk, like a knickknack. I could create a pleasant distraction in the work place, for all the women, that can further induce the shoe obsessed women. They will want to look and hold the shoes each day. Once they are hooked, I could then use that distraction, to leverage and even undermine some of these women. Some may even start to cross lines; steal the shoes. If I stop bringing in the shoes, I lose my leverage and my ability to undermine and play the innocent victim.
In Islam, women are not allowed to induce and manipulate men, in public. The wife is only allowed to leverage her husband at home, with her leverage even stronger, than in western cultures. The reason is, she owns all the sex appeal, her husband can see and have, to trigger his inner beast. I bet there is less divorce there. There is no reason for the male to wander. When women are allowed to leverage men, beyond their husband, divorce goes up and men will start to cross the lines in public. They start marking territory beyond their own.
The women do not want to admit this, because this is one of their aces in a hole, that they assume men don't see. They fear that without the leverage to undermine the men and help alter behavior, they will not be able to keep up.
Another consideration is, from the POV of a male, a beautiful woman can look sexy in anything. You put a super model in a potato sack and she is still sexy. If all women had to dress down, the pretty girls will still be able to leverage the males, however, the majority of women will be at a disadvantage. Under the current rules of the game, makeup, cosmetic surgery and clothing can enhance the appeal of even average women, so there is no pretty girl monopoly on leverage. The problem with this is it cranks up the inducement of the males, with the males being blamed for acting natural to the cause and affect. It is a female competition, with men the victims of the game. It is very predictable. It is not healthy for the men to become unnatural to cause and affect, even of this benefits the women. Sex drive is natural to men.
One last consideration can be seen by looking at male dogs. When a female goes into heat the scent is in the air and all the males nearby get worked up. The males become more aggressive and more obsessed, to where even none fertile females will approached as though fertile.
The lesson learned is women who dress down and try to avoid any inducement, can become still victimized, due to the scent trails of the women trying to leverage, using sex appeal. Women can place other women at risk. This results in two layers of victims.