Less Skin Is Back In For Young Americans
Great news for fathers with daughters, everywhere.
Reuters reports: “Hip-hugging jeans and tight-fitting tiny tops are out. Less skin is back in for the young American.
U.S. fashion experts say a trend toward modesty is evident in new fall styles for clothing aimed at girls in their early teens, and will become more common with spring 2006 designs.”
“We’re seeing skirt hemlines that are at the knee and are very demure, very proper pants, prim tops and large pearl necklaces,” said Gloria Baume, fashion market director for Teen Vogue.
Baume, who said she looks to European fashion runways to spot what will be hot for American teens, said designers have been focusing on “ladylike and almost old-fashioned” styles that were inspired by the 1950s.”
If “less skin” really does become the new fashion trend, it would be very interesting to study the levels of promiscuity and unwanted teenage pregnancies.
Some might argue there’s a correlation between what styles girls wear. Too bad feminists hate the ’50s.
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July 15th, 2005 at 5:52 am
I’m not a father, nor to I have a daughter, but I’m quite happy to see a fashion swinging back towards the art of appealing without revealing. Still, I think it’s a little simplistic and naive to think that this trend represents a return to modest times with respect to our attitudes towards sex, and I certainly wouldn’t draw any conclusions about teen pregnancies and so on. Sociologists have suggested that fashion trends a cyclical, driven by the perpetual desire of the wealthy to separate themselves from the lower classes by changing styles once the latest fashion trends trickle down from Armani to JC Penny. This interesting theory was first proposed by Quentin Bell, so feel free to read up on it. The main point I want to make here is that a connection between fashion and the moral attutude of the nation or its young people is a little hasty.