"Though at that time men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit." (51)
Atwood makes this sentence - a common practice in the past and today - sound so bizarre and wrong. It must seem like a horrible thought to all of the women, too, as they're so used to not even talking to others. As it said somewhere in the text, they are the transitional generation, so it is the hardest for them, as they know how free life was before all of this. Not only can they not engage with others sexually, but they can't even have conversations or make eye contact with anyone else. Atwood creates a sort of free imprisonment for all of the women.
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