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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, some of them are very short.  What I don't get is how their mothers let them out of the house like that?[/quote]

My daughter is tall and has long legs. She's also athletic. Basically, she's got a great body. As long as her butt won't show, I don't mind her wearing a short dress. I told her you either show off cleavage or leg but not both. She chose to show off her legs. I made her jump up with her hands over her head both facing me and facing away from me in dressing rooms. Then I had her bend over as if writing something leaning on a table, and I took a picture of her ass and showed it to her and said "are you really comfortable showing this much?" It turned out to be a brilliant idea - she picked a dress two inches longer because of that pic.

But she's got a great body, knows it, and dresses for it. She likes how she looks in the shorter dresses. There is zero correlation between skimpiness of dress and having sex. [/quote]

I'm sorry, but it sounds like you're living through your daughter. [/quote]

No it doesn't, it sounds like she's giving her daughter some good solid guidance. Most of what she said is how I still choose dresses to this day. Pick one aspect of your body to highlight -- several at once will likely be too much. Try to move around in the dress -- can you? Figure out how you look from all angles. Decide if this is a look you like and are comfortable with.

Most teens and young adults need to be taught to be good dressers and find things which look good on them rather than just following the trends even if the trend isn't good on the individual.I say good on the mom for helping her daughter out. She will probably appreciate it later.

What part of this is "living through the daughter"? I typically hear that phrase when the parent is pushing the child to have/do something the parent always wanted but never had a chance to experience. That doesn't seem to apply here.[/quote]

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