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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
What I doubt is that they, in general, look any more sluttish to your eyes than many of your friends' clothing did to their own parents when you were their age. Except now you are the generation out of date and out of touch with what actually qualifies as looking slutty for a 14 year old. I don't believe that the generational-clothing-gap is any greater now than it ever was - this is not a new development, just the current version of the same old thing. And, compared to some past generational-clothing shifts, this seems pretty mild.
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I think there are two differences. The first is the age of the girls. I don't remember my parents being shocked by what the pre-teens and young teens were wearing -- pretty much high school and up. And when I was 11-14, my parents weren't shocked at what I was wearing because they decided what I could wear and that was that. If for no other reason than stricter parenting, the past generational clothing shifts weren't so quickly copied by young girls. It was young women being scandalous, not girls.
The second is the overt slutty sexuality -- not only are really young girls dressing as provocatively in style as older girls and women, but in case you missed the message, their strappy little tops have glitter sayings that make it perfectly clear.
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