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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t find anything in conversations about modest dressing that is steady as far as the actual clothing. It seems like parents from different cultures and sub cultures freak out the same way and the line about what the offensive clothing actually is moves pretty arbitrarily. So that feels like it’s more about enforcing the rules of our particular cultural niche than it is about something I can really defend to a teen as being about safety or morality, at least not until way past the point where I start to feel the clothing is more revealing than I want it to be.

Honest to god when my teen wants to wear a crop top and I don’t want her to I’ll probably make her write and discuss an essay about why I’m wrong so hopefully I’m making her too nerdy to have early sex anyway. [/quote]

Too much work.  Assign her to read a few DCUM posts then have a scholarly debate about which parents get it right and which do not. LOL.

Unfortunately, since I only have teen sons, some people on here think I shouldn't be allowed to have an opinion.  But as a professional woman, I want women to know how to dress up and project a positive image and to be attractive without having to be fairly naked or wear skin tight clothes.  To me these are life skills for women.  And I'm not religious so I don't have any morality policing in my background beyond lapsed mainstream Protestantism.  I have to admit that it caused me to step back a bit when someone pointed out that some Indian dress occasion saris are midriff baring. I know those outfits and they are gorgeous.  Maybe they are ok because the focus is actually on the clothing and jewelry more than the stomach skin?

We obviously won't settle it here but not buying skimpy fast fashion is the best/only practical way to address it.[/quote]

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