Our Teen girls and Fashion
When girls are
young it doesn’t matter what nationality or skin color they are from. Anything they put wear looks cute, and the stores
are full of adorable stuff, with different colors and styles. But as soon as
girls start growing up those cute things don’t apply anymore. Their wardrobes start
changing but usually not for the better. The outfits become shorter and
shorter, to the point where it hardly covers the body.
I am the mother of
two daughters and I know how delicate the adolescent age is for girls. The
self-esteem and confidence level is low. At this age they are very self
conscious and fragile. The main goal is to fit in with everyone else, in
addition to dealing with peer pressure and other things. Clothing plays a big role in this area. I have
talked to many mothers and all of our views are the same on this topic. I don’t
know what fashion designers are trying to promote by making clothing small and
low cut for teenage girls.
Whether going shopping
for school, prom, etc, it’s all same. It’s a struggle to find a decent article
of clothing that is fashionable and modest the same time. The first time I took
my eldest daughter shopping for a homecoming dress, she had a hard time finding
a simple dress. I took her all over town and out of town as well. Both of us
were getting frustrated but she came up with an interesting idea. She found a
dress that she liked that was relatively low cut, but her solution was for me
to sew the neckline to make it higher. I did that and it worked perfectly. I
have done that to many other dresses now too.
Clothing changes a
person’s personality and we all know our society judges us based on our outside
looks. Some of the clothing takes away a young girl’s innocence. It makes them
look far more mature then they should. This being the case, they look at
themselves differently as a result. What is the big rush in growing up fast? I
dislike it very much so and I don’t understand why we are trying to promote
that?
We can’t blame our
kids entirely either because it isn’t their fault that there aren’t respectful
yet fashionable items for them. In a way it’s as if companies are forcing us to
buy small and low cut clothing. These teen girls are fashion designers marketing
target. They are telling our girls what to buy because it will make them feel
older and more beautiful. I hope this trend doesn’t keep going on like this.
At this age they
are searching for their identity but at the same time they want to be accepted.
Not all but most girls tend to have a
low-self-esteem issue. Those kinds of girls become easy targets. There are many
things that are associated with revealing or insinuating clothing. Rape can be more prone to occur because of it,
of course it isn’t because of the teenager but the clothing speaks for itself.
It’s our job as parents to teach our girls how to look nice without attracting
that type of undesired attention. We need to explain to them how special they
are.
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