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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I need some perspective. I took my oldest son to his first homecoming event where pictures were being taken.  There must have been over forty couples there in various groups.  I expected to see some "sexy" dresses but I was taken aback.  The first  30% looked appropriately dressed in pretty dresses, the second 30% were dressed in dresses I would say are "too short" or "too low cut" but at least not both, and the third category of 40% of the girls, in my opinion and please excuse the harshness, looked like they were dressed as hookers -- super-tight ("bandage"), crazy-short (how can they sit?), strapless or very low-cut dresses with four-inch heels.  Is my opinion regarding the third category out-of-date?  Anti-feminist? Too prudish   When my daughter gets to that age, will I "mellow out" about it?   It felt so weird, because I was actually shocked and no one else seems to be. [/quote]

You may or may not mellow out about it, when your daughter gets to that age.

But what you need to be very careful about, right now, is giving the message to your oldest son that girls/women who wear revealing clothing have less worth as human beings than girls/women who wear less revealing clothing.[/quote]

But is it ok to give the message that those girls have bad taste, and they lack dignity and class? You're fooling yourself if you think how a person dresses says nothing at all about the person. [/quote]

Not that poster. I'm not sure, but I lean towards saying yes that's OK because that would be how I feel about the choice to wear such outfits. But maybe that's a bit harsh especially when applied to young ladies whose personal styles are still evolving, so if I were at my best during the conversation with DD I might try for the message that the choice of that particular dress was in bad taste, and that the look the girls selected for the event lacked dignity and class. Because in theory it is possible that their style could change especially if someone guides them towards more tasteful choices for future events and I wouldn't want to have made too sweeping a judgement at first.[/quote]

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