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Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Some of us were not old enough in the waning years of the '70s to have "braless" matter so I don't think if we wore tube tops it would have been considered slutty. 
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Hell, it barely matters for some of us now.
I didn't even mention the butt-exposing short shorts (worn with roller skates, of course!). I wouldn't be caught dead in those now. Nor would I let any child of mine wear thekind of bare, clingy, gross stuff I wore when I was a kid. Not because it was slutty, but because it looks like shit and is no longer fashionable (even with the resurgence of tube tops, the stuff I wore in the '70s has emphatically NOT been back in fashion).
But frankly most girls I see on the streets these days look fine to me. While I find it distressingly unambitious for anyone to wear jeans or t-shirts or tank tops in public, I find it no more shocking to see a 12 year old girl in the latest low-rider tight fashions than I do their mothers - usually less so. Do these people not remember the '80s, when we teens were all running around in acid-washed Guess jeans so tight they cut off our circulation, with heels? Sparkle eye shadow? Low buttoned blouses, big hair and racoon eyes?
Do these people not remember that, for the last 25 years at least and probably the better part of the last century, the "older" fashions worn by the 19-22 yo models that the 12-14 set mimic did not in fact make the little girls look 19-25? It made them look like they were wearing the usual 12-14 yo clothing. Seventeen Magazine was always meant to be outgrown when you hit 13. I outgrew Teen when I was, I think, 11. The statement "oh, a generation ago only a late-20s sexpot would wear that" doesn't at all imply that the girls are today dressing like late-20s sexpots. They are dressing like 13 year olds. They look like 13 year olds. It just shows that the parents blissfully unaware that fashions might actually have changed since they were kids, while also somehow being unaware that the generational fashion issues have not.
When they are 17-18, these girls will have abandoned Brittney and discovered Vogue, and there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth among parents wishing for the simpler, more innocent days of $15 tops in the Jr.s section.
