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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry girl moms, but a lot of the short skirt dresses look really trashy.  Just like all the leggings that girls go around in to high school.  I have a teen boy, and he comments a lot that the girls at his school dress poorly thinking they look good/sexy/flirty when they'd look much better in a less clingy outfit or a full sweater.  And if I had a girl, I wouldn't buy her mid-thigh hem dresses.  They are just too hard to sit in.

I do like the Nordstrom Rack dress that is high/low with the jeweled belt.

I sense that the divide here is between the moms who think their daughters are dressing fun and flirty and the rest of us who think we're wading through a sea of garbage fast fashion.

In particular, I know many women wish trendy dresses would go back to having sleeves.  It's a pain to try and coordinate appropriately matching shrugs/cardigans/etc. to go stylishly with the all too common sleeveless dresses. Same problem applies to many of these occasion dresses suggested for teens.  Have to find that topper that works with the bust size and also works correctly with the dress's waist so the line's not spoiled.  More wasted time for mom.[/quote]

You don't have a teen DD. Until you do, your opinion on this matter is irrelevant. And you have no idea what you'd do. [/quote]

Are these girls dressing for themselves?  Get real, girl mom! We were both teens once.  Who tells them these dresses are in fashion?  Who tells them they look pretty?  Teens buy what the stores stock without thinking about it and to fit in.  A lot of this stuff brings two words to mind: "Inappropriately sexualized". And girl moms are enabling it.  So many of these dresses are flimsy junk.

I have a pretty good idea of what I'd do.  Just like my mom did.  I had a miniskirt in high school but I wasn't allowed to have any tube tops.  Also, my mom was more conservative but now I can look back at my high school pictures and think how nicely dressed I was for the time instead of "so cringe".  My mom taught me early that trendy fashion doesn't have to be a big part of your value as a woman.  Also that it's appropriate to go more modest when visiting a religious building.  It doesn't matter what you can get away with, or what other people do, it's about respecting the norms of the congregation you are visiting.

I went to the service part of a Bar Mitzvah 2 years ago out here in flyover country and none of the girls were wearing bodycon dresses or anything skimpy.  I did not attend the party. Millionaire family, reform synagogue.[/quote]

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