What We Don't Wear...

As the weather gets colder it's time to change our wardrobes again from summer to fall-winter. Most of us will be donning heavier jackets, mittens, scarfs, hats plus long sleeved shirts/sweatshirts and jeans. However there is a great number of the population that will still wear shorts till the snow is above their knees, refuse to wear coats because it's a hassle, and those (mostly pre-teen, teen and early 20's) that have the extremely low cut on every entry point shirts.

As a nineteen year old, I thought these styles were fun and hey, that's how you got the guys to look at you. As a mother, I don't quite want to hide every body I see but I am getting exasperated at how young these trends seem to go. My daughter has always loved to wear dresses, but once you grow out of the 6X size and move into 7's it's very hard to find dresses that don't make our daughters look like sluts. As my daughter is tall for her age, she got into the size 7 early and there is no way my kid would wear half of he dresses I found for her until she's 16, at least.

A few years back I read an article about how these trends start in Hollywood then of course work their way down and that the amount of clothing we wear - or don't wear - goes in phases. However, this scantily clad phase seems (to the best of my memory) to have started in the 90's and every year has gotten shorter and shorter for the girls, and for the guys the pants have gotten lower and lower. After seeing the amount of Daisy Dukes this summer... I'm not sure we can go any lower.

Every image our children see of how people dress and look anymore is reflecting who they are. There is a commercial out right now about how many subliminal messages there are for pre-teen and earlier children on how to look "good" and this all affects the way they perceive themselves. Do we honestly want our children dressed with as much makeup as hookers and wearing clothes that get even older men to look at them like they were 21 when they're 16? Do they need to wear words across the butt which cause any person to be drawn right to their hiney? Do the guys of these generations need to wear their pants so low that it would take a gust of wind to put them on the ground.

What do these children think of themselves? Do they think they're the rock star like Miley Cyrus or rappers (sorry, don't know any current rappers). These children strut their stuff because that's what their idols do, and it all opens up to earlier sex lives, gangs and a host of other problems.

I know there will come a day when my daughter will defy everything I try to dress her in, but for now she's happy with what I pick out for her. She truly doesn't mind not wearing the low cut, show it all stuff and I'll keep it that way for as long as possible. She's already been told by her father that she will not wear anything with words across the butt. And you know what? She has enough other clothes that it doesn't bother her.

Now all we have to do is get Hollywood to follow suit.... I just don't have the faith for them though....