What happened to the days when women dressed with class and poise like Sandra Bullock and Charlize Theron. They were covered but still looked gorgeous. The VMA awards was just disgusting and "twerking"? Really? I have seen videos of girls as young as eight shaking their butts and shaking them provocatively while being egged on by others that find this funny.
Shopping for school gets more difficult every year. Finding a shirt that not only covers my 13 years olds belly used to be the issue. Now I finding something that covers the belly and isn't sheer is almost impossible. We finally had to buy tank tops to go under pretty much every shirt that she will wear including t-shirts since those also have been made to be see-thru. Now I am no prude but whoever designs clothes has to keep in mind I would prefer my child doesn't look like a mini prostitute.
Thank God my daughter has a good head on her shoulders and has some modesty and feels the same way as I do. As we were walking through the stores she kept saying how disappointed she was with her choices. Even Newbury comic and Hot Topic (yes she is kind of a geek like me) have let her down. She likes to dress differently than everyone else and not look like she walked off the girl factory floor and this year we had nothing to work with, all the stores were pretty much the same, no originality.
When I look at the magazines and things like the VMA awards I see why. The people that are guiding the fashion and the music, tv show, movies have no originality of their own. Just Pack Mentality and right now for the women of the "Pack" they are trying to see who can out slut who. Unfortunately the ones who suffer are the young girls who look up to these "ladies" (and yes I use this term loosely). Hopefully the stores will suffer for their choices and the clothes will sit on the shelves (we bought very few clothes this year and we are waiting it out) and people will come to their senses and modesty will make a return. Until then we will have to suffer through "twerking" videos, barely there clothing and God help us Miley Cyrus.
