I would certainly characterize it as a crisis. Why any less than the “Shidduch Crisis”? When you have an epidemic where people are shamelessly wearing a miniskirt (i.e. above the knee – either literally or with movement or sitting) and shaitel combination, and even have the audacity to come to shul(!) like this in the frummest of neighborhoods, yeah I think crisis might be a little tame of a description for it.
And what is this telling men not to look have to do with the issue? Sure they shouldn’t. But we still need to dress non-provocatively whether they look or not. That means (amongst other things) at the very minimum an *always* covered knee. There’s no way you are not going to be seen even inadvertently. You can’t go in public (and that includes cars) immodestly, period.