HoCo dresses- Could they be any shorter

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Anonymous wrote:I care more than my daughter is a good kid. People that are concerned about the short dresses have their own issues they’re dealing with. Something about it makes these ladies feel uncomfortable inside. Maybe they didn’t have the confidence at that age or they truly believe men can’t control themselves when they see skin.

+1. It seems like 95% of these posters do not have a teenager daughter but they sure have a lot of opinions on teenage girls.

+1. Really gross to see these comments in 2024.

I have a teen DD who went to HoCo. I would not let her weary a trashy dress. They look like prostitutes. Her friends came over our house all dressed up, and omg.. they looked like they were spilling out of their dresses, constantly pulling the skirt down, but the bodice up. FYI if you constantly have to fidget with your dress, it's probably not appropriate.

^^^someone has clearly never seen a prostitute in real life. I assure you, they aren't wearing a shiny, brand new dress and heels.

I have also seen them irl. Some of the prostitutes do indeed wear similar dresses.

No . . . they don't.

Hm.. maybe you were in the poorer parts of the area. I saw them in CA, and they do indeed wear skimpy clothes to attract johns.

No one cares if they are new. We're talking about styles, not how much you paid for the dress. Even so, I've seen the same dress sold for $10 at a discount store that you would find in a department store for $70.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's immoral to wear a short and tight dress. I also would not compare these girls to prostitutes and I also think it's inherently misogynist to use "prostitute" as a pejorative as though women who sell sex are selling to themselves -- prostitution doesn't exist because *women* are "immoral" weirdos.

Anyway. I just think these dresses are tacky and unflattering and look really impractical. Glad to hear they are wearing shorts under them and I do hope they feel good in them and enjoy the dance. I don't judge these girls but I do judge their clothes -- yes I'm a middle aged lady and I view it as my right to look at the clothes the kids are wearing and roll my eyes!

They dress like prostitutes, not that they are one.

We are judging the clothes, as you stated.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a 52-year-old mother to two college-aged sons. It is weird to me that so many people are triggered by these dresses. I don't have any issue with them -- they cover up way more than the bikinis that were on display throughout the summer. Have you guys been on college campuses recently and seen what girls are wearing to their classes? It looks really uncomfortable to me, but whatever. The amount of skin truly doesn't bother me (and it is certainly appreciated by my sons). Don't we all like to look at pretty things? (Or silently judge those who don't pull it off?)

DH went to a visit a friend who has a teen daughter. She is quite busty and was wearing a tube top. When he came by, she was constantly lifting up her tube top, and it was clear she was not comfortable wearing it. He kept thinking, "why are you wearing that ? You look so uncomfortable". And before you call him a perv, no, he thought she was ridiculous. He has no problem with nudity in general, but clearly she was not comfortable wearing that.

But why do you guys care if she was uncomfortable? Women have been uncomfortable in the name of fashion for centuries -- stilettos, corsets, headdresses, etc. (And why in the world would I call him a perv? That seems a strange reaction as well.)

When someone is constantly grabbing at a tube top and adjusting their breasts, it is poor manners and distracting. Don’t wear underwear that you feel compelled to pick out of crack in public either. Same thing

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Anonymous wrote:I am a 52-year-old mother to two college-aged sons. It is weird to me that so many people are triggered by these dresses. I don't have any issue with them -- they cover up way more than the bikinis that were on display throughout the summer. Have you guys been on college campuses recently and seen what girls are wearing to their classes? It looks really uncomfortable to me, but whatever. The amount of skin truly doesn't bother me (and it is certainly appreciated by my sons). Don't we all like to look at pretty things? (Or silently judge those who don't pull it off?)

DH went to a visit a friend who has a teen daughter. She is quite busty and was wearing a tube top. When he came by, she was constantly lifting up her tube top, and it was clear she was not comfortable wearing it. He kept thinking, "why are you wearing that ? You look so uncomfortable". And before you call him a perv, no, he thought she was ridiculous. He has no problem with nudity in general, but clearly she was not comfortable wearing that.

So you didn’t even poster to post a story about a homecoming dress? Just a girl wearing a tube top in her *own* home, where your DH was both a visitor and judgy AH? Uh, ok. You guys really are telling on yourselves.

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I don't really care about tightness or length but the fabric in most of these dresses is so cheap-looking. That makes the look appear cheap more than anything else imo.

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Anonymous wrote:9 pages of pearl clutching opinionated grandmas. Every comment here says more about you than any teen and what they wear. It’s embarrassing for you all.

EXACTLY!!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:I don't really care about tightness or length but the fabric in most of these dresses is so cheap-looking. That makes the look appear cheap more than anything else imo.

Were you one of those mothers who didn’t really like it when her preschoolers wanted to wear sparkles and cheap neon?

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Anonymous wrote:I am a 52-year-old mother to two college-aged sons. It is weird to me that so many people are triggered by these dresses. I don't have any issue with them -- they cover up way more than the bikinis that were on display throughout the summer. Have you guys been on college campuses recently and seen what girls are wearing to their classes? It looks really uncomfortable to me, but whatever. The amount of skin truly doesn't bother me (and it is certainly appreciated by my sons). Don't we all like to look at pretty things? (Or silently judge those who don't pull it off?)

DH went to a visit a friend who has a teen daughter. She is quite busty and was wearing a tube top. When he came by, she was constantly lifting up her tube top, and it was clear she was not comfortable wearing it. He kept thinking, "why are you wearing that ? You look so uncomfortable". And before you call him a perv, no, he thought she was ridiculous. He has no problem with nudity in general, but clearly she was not comfortable wearing that.

But why do you guys care if she was uncomfortable? Women have been uncomfortable in the name of fashion for centuries -- stilettos, corsets, headdresses, etc. (And why in the world would I call him a perv? That seems a strange reaction as well.)

When someone is constantly grabbing at a tube top and adjusting their breasts, it is poor manners and distracting. Don’t wear underwear that you feel compelled to pick out of crack in public either. Same thing

I'm sure your one of those who is always adjusting your frumpy tops due to your muffin tops. Get over it.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel for you parents this year. They literally couldn't be any shorter or tighter. It is almost comical. Wondering if any schools turned any of them away.

Who are you the morality police shut up

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These girls are minors who have been brainwashed by a society that tells them that sexualizing yourself to appear sexually desirable to the male gaze is empowering. They are minors and therefore naive, adults really should know better.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel for you parents this year. They literally couldn't be any shorter or tighter. It is almost comical. Wondering if any schools turned any of them away.

Who are you the morality police shut up

Shouldn’t you be in shop class right now?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't really care about tightness or length but the fabric in most of these dresses is so cheap-looking. That makes the look appear cheap more than anything else imo.

Were you one of those mothers who didn’t really like it when her preschoolers wanted to wear sparkles and cheap neon?

DP but the position of "let kids wear cheaply produced synthetic fibers!" is a weird one. Like I let my kid wear what she wants for the most part but the other day I was folding clothes and she has some message tees she got online from some cheapo retailer with her birthday money and I was like "oooh that's why she has a rash on her armpits." I pointed this out to her and she had no idea that bad fabric could irritate your skin like that. She told me later that those tees also transfer dye to her skin even after several washes and the hems have already unraveled. A good lesson in being willing to spend more to get fewer items in order to avoid cheap fabric.

It's okay for parents to not want their kids to wear cheap fabric. It's also environmentally awful. I'm happy to encourage my kid to make better choices!

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Anonymous wrote:I am a 52-year-old mother to two college-aged sons. It is weird to me that so many people are triggered by these dresses. I don't have any issue with them -- they cover up way more than the bikinis that were on display throughout the summer. Have you guys been on college campuses recently and seen what girls are wearing to their classes? It looks really uncomfortable to me, but whatever. The amount of skin truly doesn't bother me (and it is certainly appreciated by my sons). Don't we all like to look at pretty things? (Or silently judge those who don't pull it off?)

DH went to a visit a friend who has a teen daughter. She is quite busty and was wearing a tube top. When he came by, she was constantly lifting up her tube top, and it was clear she was not comfortable wearing it. He kept thinking, "why are you wearing that ? You look so uncomfortable". And before you call him a perv, no, he thought she was ridiculous. He has no problem with nudity in general, but clearly she was not comfortable wearing that.

But why do you guys care if she was uncomfortable? Women have been uncomfortable in the name of fashion for centuries -- stilettos, corsets, headdresses, etc. (And why in the world would I call him a perv? That seems a strange reaction as well.)

When someone is constantly grabbing at a tube top and adjusting their breasts, it is poor manners and distracting. Don’t wear underwear that you feel compelled to pick out of crack in public either. Same thing

I'm sure your one of those who is always adjusting your frumpy tops due to your muffin tops. Get over it.

An interesting turn this thread has taken is the people who claim to be defending these young women to wear what they want in peace by making aggressively misogynistic and body-shaming comments about older women.

There's a PhD thesis in these comments.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't really care about tightness or length but the fabric in most of these dresses is so cheap-looking. That makes the look appear cheap more than anything else imo.

Were you one of those mothers who didn’t really like it when her preschoolers wanted to wear sparkles and cheap neon?

DP but the position of "let kids wear cheaply produced synthetic fibers!" is a weird one. Like I let my kid wear what she wants for the most part but the other day I was folding clothes and she has some message tees she got online from some cheapo retailer with her birthday money and I was like "oooh that's why she has a rash on her armpits." I pointed this out to her and she had no idea that bad fabric could irritate your skin like that. She told me later that those tees also transfer dye to her skin even after several washes and the hems have already unraveled. A good lesson in being willing to spend more to get fewer items in order to avoid cheap fabric.

It's okay for parents to not want their kids to wear cheap fabric. It's also environmentally awful. I'm happy to encourage my kid to make better choices!

Oh so that’s why you don’t want your kids to wear these homecoming dresses - the environment and rashes? Huh. I swear one could walk away with a different conclusion from these 11 pages.

These are clothes kids wear one or twice. Kids outgrow their sparkly unicorn clothes. I don’t understand spending a lot of money on them or getting overly worried that the hem might unravel after several washes. These are quite the opposite of say black work pants for an adult.

My point was not about the fabric itself but about adult woman finding those little nitty ways to criticize girls.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a 52-year-old mother to two college-aged sons. It is weird to me that so many people are triggered by these dresses. I don't have any issue with them -- they cover up way more than the bikinis that were on display throughout the summer. Have you guys been on college campuses recently and seen what girls are wearing to their classes? It looks really uncomfortable to me, but whatever. The amount of skin truly doesn't bother me (and it is certainly appreciated by my sons). Don't we all like to look at pretty things? (Or silently judge those who don't pull it off?)

DH went to a visit a friend who has a teen daughter. She is quite busty and was wearing a tube top. When he came by, she was constantly lifting up her tube top, and it was clear she was not comfortable wearing it. He kept thinking, "why are you wearing that ? You look so uncomfortable". And before you call him a perv, no, he thought she was ridiculous. He has no problem with nudity in general, but clearly she was not comfortable wearing that.

But why do you guys care if she was uncomfortable? Women have been uncomfortable in the name of fashion for centuries -- stilettos, corsets, headdresses, etc. (And why in the world would I call him a perv? That seems a strange reaction as well.)

When someone is constantly grabbing at a tube top and adjusting their breasts, it is poor manners and distracting. Don’t wear underwear that you feel compelled to pick out of crack in public either. Same thing

I'm sure your one of those who is always adjusting your frumpy tops due to your muffin tops. Get over it.

An interesting turn this thread has taken is the people who claim to be defending these young women to wear what they want in peace by making aggressively misogynistic and body-shaming comments about older women.

There's a PhD thesis in these comments.

I don’t support this type of comments and I have been defending these girls. That said, it’s pretty weird to dish it out and not be able to take it, no?