jt, darlin' you are missing my point.
These girls ate LEARNING to dress and act like hos from their mothers.
Again, having been a teenage girl, I respectfully disagree. And I'm not missing your point--you are saying a teenage girl dresses trampy because her mother does. Again, I respectfully disagree as someone who has btdt and you have at least one other example on this board of a teenage girl pushing boundaries with clothing and I doubt--no I know her mother did not set a bad example for her, nor did mine despite the fact I acted out in dress too(think more alternative clothing though). Hell, I can think of a whole lot of hippies in the late 60's who rejected very ladylike examples in their own mothers
. Also, you leave out the critical role that fathers play in the self-esteem of a young woman besides.
Now, back on the topic at hand...
I happen to lean more the direction toast and shamrock were going on that topic. People dress up as lots of things for Halloween, doesn't make them spiderman, a beer keg, a nerd, or a sexed up snow white the rest of the year. Plus, it's a time of year to be over the top and silly. I know no matter how I looked in one of the outfits posted here, I'd be acting really silly in it because I goof on myself like that. Kinda like when we take this thing akin to Zumba class with lots of wiggling and shaking and me and my girlfriends die laughing during it. There isn't anything sexy about it--it's just...fun. A time to laugh at yourself in the indulgence that is a costume or a booty shaking dance class.
Of course, I'd never wear one of those outfits. I don't know...just don't have a desire to do so. I think I'm going to dress up 80's chick this year. God, I'm so old that how I dressed as a teenager everyday is now a costume.
eta: free I didn't address your point about what you see 'everywhere'. I will agree with you that a lot of parents are pushovers for their little 'prince and princesses' and allow sh*t they otherwise wouldn't. Usually, they justify the 'personal expression' by the fact that the child is good at this or that and behaves themselves otherwise. I tend to lean your way on this that it is inappropriate in its extreme presentations and that parents need to stop treating their children like leaders of the kingdom. That part is a just a fear to parent and wanting to be the buddy. I will give you that in the day, at least us girls used to sneak around. Many today don't have to and it's not that their mothers are tramps, but just way too permissive--dad too for that matter. Both sexes also seem to have an issue with living vicariously through their children.
