Lately, it seems like the amount of clothes that some women wear seems to be diminishing. Even very young kids are starting to have this problem. Once when I was shopping with my friend, we saw a bikini that was as revealing as one a teenage girl would wear, but it was fit for someone as young as five. Young girls are more interested in fashion. Some teens think that the less clothes they wear, the better. Some people comment that the clothing seen on some school girls is "worse than what we see in Hooters." Personally, I do not believe that is necessarily true, but the revealing clothing should be regulated a bit more. Skirts and shorts should at least cover the butt. The boobs shouldn't be popping out of the shirt. If teenage girls and celebrities continue to dress that way, then all it does is lead to a future generation of girls who want attention for all the wrong reasons.
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Can you blame these poor girls?
Guys are ogling these half-clad celebs, and they want that attn too.
I don't approve by it at all.
ALL Women want to be beautiful but unfortunately they have serious comptetion.
I think it's better to leave room for mystery by covering up.
All in all, skimpy women in skimpy clothes are saying, "hey guys the best part of me is my body" but ddep down guys know there is nothing more worthy in them.
My great-gram used to always say "if it's not for sale, don't promote it"
I think that revealing clothes has had its time, but so many companies are pushing more modest clothing now. Showing off your bare midriff isn't nearly as common as it was a few years ago. Shorts and skirts have gotten shorter, but at least the clothing industry is starting to turn more modest.
You can think what you want, but I really really disagree with your use of the word "reguate."
We don't live in times anymore where women are told what they can and cannot do based on their gender (or, in this case, what being a woman includes, and that's possibly having a good figure.)
You can't make a girl wear something more covering just because she's a girl. It's a question of society. You think that seeing a girl topless is way too revealing, but on any Brazilian or Spanish beach, it's normal.
You have the same mindset of the people who make Middle Eastern women wear fully covering burkas, just on a smaller and what seems to you a less-alarming scale. But it's the same principle.
Don't label the girl a slut, ask yourself why she's wearing those clothes. If she's wearing them to get guys' attention, then sure, slut. If she's wearing them because it's hot outside, or because SHE likes the way she looks or she likes the clothes, then you outta mind your own business and if you don't like it, look the other way.
Respectfully,
Brooke
I agree with your thoughts - if the girl is in high school.
I, like the poster, have seen five and six-year-olds walking around dressed like the Pussycat Dolls. If a teenager wearing short-shorts and a midriff top is trying to exude a sensual, sexy vibe and show off her body, what kind of message does it send when a little girl of ten does it? Frankly, that's where it becomes sickening.
I think high school girls in skimpy or revealing clothes is a little skanky, but elementary school girls in the same outfit? That's like putting a neon sign above their head that says "Pedophiles, free jailbait here!"
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I have to agree. I honestly don't know what self-respecting parent would buy that type of clothing for a child that young OR let them wear it. It is really just asking for pedophiles.
These arguments are beginning to sound like the old "she was wearing that so she must have been asking for it" defense that sickens me.
If a ten year old looked and liked a shirt that showed her midriff and her parents bought it for her, there is no reason to assume that either the ten year old or the parents are asking for pedophiles to come violate their daughter.
Plus, I have never met a ten year old who has ever said "I wear this because it makes me look sexy" and I have a hard time believing that they fully understand what all that means.
They know that their high school aged sister or cousin wears it (in what school, I don't know since most of them have dress codes saying no to midriff shirts) and, like all kids, they want to look and act older.
Kids start wanting to be older and start copying "grown up actions" from like age 4, the first time they play "house" or trying on mom and dad's clothes, shoes, or make up. They don't know it's "sexy" - they know it's "grown up" and clothing marketers know that children want to be grown up, so they make and sell them.
When parents start raising their children to not need these clothes to feel grown up, younger children won't try to copy and clothing marketers won't feel the need to sell them.
As far as regulating them, I disagree. We are way too bent on trying to form and suppress childrens' characters to match the clothing we want to see on them when we should be focusing on building their character first and allowing them to choose and portray their character through their clothing. Then we boot them out into the "real world" with no idea of who they even are.
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Actually, at age 4, I was wearing shirts off my shoulders because it was "sexy," and I was pulling my shirts down and sticking my chest as an attempt at cleavage. If I understood sex appeal at age 4 (hell, even at age 3), most 10-year-olds should also understand it. Yes, I was 4 and I knew about sex, how it happened, why it happened, and how to be sexy.
Well, you're the most mature four year old I would have ever met, LOL. :)
But I wouldn't take your knowledge and compare it with most people...
My 5 year old neice has no understanding sex or sexy; all she knows is that boys aren't allowed to touch her "there or there". She's brilliant for her age and we talk about it a lot - it's just a concept she doesn't "quite get". My six 1/2 year old nephew doesn't have a clue about sexy or sex; he just knows that "no means no". My 16 year old sister had absolutely no clue about what was "sexy" until she was about 12 or 13 - somewhere in there. At 10 she wanted to wear the short skirts not because she thought they were sexy but because her mother wore them. Now, one of her friends' of the same age claimed to know what sexy was, but when I asked her she froze up and couldn't answer me.
And the list goes on. Given the knowledge of your childhood, I will rephrase my statement to say that in my experience 10 year old don't understand what being sexy is and they wear clothes that they see older people wearing because they want to be older.
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In my own experience, most people in the area I live in know these things. I led a pretty sheltered life, yet still knew this. It may or may not have something to do with the fact that I was molested at the age of three, but I still knew other (very religious) children who understood sex and sex appeal at the age of eight or nine.
If you look at designer fashion though, wearing skimpy clothes is not what is in style. True fashion does not focus on a lack of clothes, but on the woman wearing them, as a WOMAN, not a body.
Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that very skimpy clothing is being sold to young children. I was at Target last week, and I found a pair of shorts for a toddler girl that had about a 1/2" inseam. Not appropriate in the least! I've seen seven-year-old girls shopping with their moms in shorts that look more like underwear, and skirts that look more like belts. It's not right at all! It is good that the designers are making clothing that acutually covers people up - those are very pleasant to see.
I wear cleavage every day. I don't want attention "for all the wrong reasons".
I wear cleavage because I can and I enjoy doing it. I don't want sex. I'm not trying to attract men. I do it because I feel like it. Not every girl who wears cleavage is a slut and people really need to stop using that stereotype.