@meenieg To my understanding too, purely clothing isn't at all important to the rate of victimization to severe sex crimes (but no stats or studies at hand, so take with a grain of salt.)
But while I agree on the dressing part, fault was never questioned there. I'd go so far as to say that in crime prevention it's most often irrelevant. You're not at fault if you get burglarized and it is common knowledge that burglary is wrong, but you're still at a great difficulty in trying to find a house without locks. Crime happens; people are shit. You still have to consider prevention, despite how faultless you fashion yourself on the spot.
Edit: typo