Aug 12 2008
Shocking Trend: Modesty
August 8th, 2008
A shocking trend is gaining ground in teen dressing: modesty.
What has happened in the last 10 months to increase the modest fashion trends?
The author suggests:
Layering. The economic downturn. Traction from an entrenched parents’ backlash against highly sexualized looks for their daughters. Oh, and fashion’s do-or-die need to throw something new at the gigantic but fickle teen/tween market as quickly as you can say “MySpace” or “Facebook.”
I like the result: too-revealing camisoles and tank tops now paired with a covering hoodie or graphic T-shirt. Dresses topped by ’50s-ish cardigans or shrugs. Vintage ’70s-ish pieces picked up cheaply at thrift shops.
Also, layered items are interchangeable and can be put together in different ways…
“It’s all media-driven…It’s about girls seeing celebrities on TV shows, movie and concert tours and now they get to communicate about clothing on social networking sites…That drives tween fashion.”
In the emphasis on layering, many parents see a welcome trend that is long overdue.
“A lot of the very fashionable looks right now are very modest,” said Brenda Sharman, national director at Pure Fashion, a Catholic-based organization that has put on modesty teen fashion shows in nearly two dozen U.S. cities. “It’s almost a flashback to looking very demure and proper.”
The group has long deplored the low necklines and sexy looks that have marked teen fashion, and they aren’t alone. Last year, an American Psychological Association task force reported that cognitive performance and health can suffer when teens and young women make themselves into sex objects by wearing sexy clothing or styling themselves after sexy celebrities.”
We aren’t the only ones to notice the pending trends toward modesty-
Sources: Eileen Putman for The Associated Press, for the entire article click HERE
So true! How a person dresses is a huge reflection on how they view/value themselves. It also defines you as a person. It’s called “markedness” when you see how someone is dressed it triggers an outamatic response based on their appearance and can autimaticaly prejudice you against them for the better or worse.