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"it's typically a female thing to be into flowers a lot. may that be as a gift, as decoration on cloths, furniture, books or as ornament in illustration. are you trying to deny the fact that women have always enjoyed this?
it's the main principle that when people like to dress with an erotic touch, they will include a sexual notion in one way or another. it's not you who's been smart about this, fashion designers throughout the centuries have found a lot of ways to do that. for men, there are cloths that emphasize the muscles, decorated seams which run along a contour, ways to accentuate the crotch area and so on.
the erotic and lure in female cloths is employed in an elegant way, but it has a long tradition of experimenting and finding different things that symbolize sexual anatomy. as I've said, it's present in frills of a skirt, in an oversized sweater that ends exactly on the crotch line along with leggins that accentuate not only the legs OP pic, floral designs on the cloths (the flower as the symbol of blossom, innocence, "to deflower"), showing hints of skin (trendy atm: shoulders, sideboobs, knees and legs in ripped jeans; traditionally: neck, cleavage, back, legs, tummy), the ripped jeans being another good example of unclear origin: did someone "rip them apart", violent force from outside? do you want someone to get "under your skin"? do you want to hint at what's underneath? underage girls are wearing ripped jeans these days, which is in a way problematic, as this is another strong sexualization.
the subc. connection of the flowers as a sexual symbol is so widespread, it is found in classic literature and in fashion in hundreds of examples. are you trying to deny that? the pleasent smell of the flower alongside the experience that most women will have at one point - unpleasent body odor in the genital area - is another aspect in this whole story. flowers are even used in tampon ads! it all has a history and clear connections."
