Is this a new trend.....??? went into town couldnt believe what the young and ..not so young girls were wearing must have been cutting into thier privates ;)... seriously..if I had a daughter no way would she get out of the house in them.... most of the young girls had them on I was shocked... it wasnt just me I heard other people comment too...

i have seen girls as young as 12 where you can see the bottom of there bum cheeks and its bare legs not even tights.
i am only 35 but disgusted by it. i would never let my step daughter out the door wearing anything like that!
lea

It is the latest fashion. Have seen girls with bum cheeks exposed!! To be fair they are young and experimenting with fashion, its no differnet to hearing my mum telling me how my nan used to complain that  her skirt was too short in the 70s :-)

I have to admit I was shocked at how tight and how high up thier backside they go , we saw lads turning around following girls in town and giggling ...

I wore short skirts in the 70's too but when walking around you couldnt see my lady bits;).. which is what is happening with this fashion.. if they wore tights it wouldnt be so bad but its bare legs..

I have shorts on now but very baggy and reach my knee, never was into very short dresses or skirts, ,my school skirts got short enough as I grew, being at an all girls school they were very strict, the deputy headmistress would stand at the bottom of the stairs and check we had the regulation shoes and skirt length, if not it was a call to our parents and if things still didn't change you and your parent/s would have to see the headmistress,very few got that far.

Some fashions do beggar belief and don't look very comfy either.

What about the boys who wear their jeans/trousers half way down their backsides? Do we really need to see the state of their underwear??

What I find so hard to believe in todays warped society is that Mothers of under 10's dress thier little girls in high fashion...I see little girls tottering around on heels with tiny short shorts on or tight leggings with cropped tops, hair all fluffed up handbags, make up, earings and jewelery looking like the 16 17 year olds. Then we wonder why perverts are leering after what was called in my day "Jail bait" I am not excusing the behaviour of the pervs but why would you want to parade your young daughter around like a piece of meat for sale ? I struggle enough with seeing the teenagers out at the week end with dresses that show every curve, so  short thier knickers are on display, high heels they cannot walk in bellies exposed and stuuded with jewelery.
Meybe we should be able to walk about flashing our bodies without being molested (in an ideal world) but we live in a world where danger lurks and I cannot understand why anyone would want to court danger for thier children.
Let children grow up slowly high fashion and short skirts/shorts are for the teenagers who have a chance of lokoking after themselves. Dressing provocativly, dancing sexily, and drinking/drug taking is the sure fired way to inviting trouble.
I grew up in the late 60's early 70's and we were much more liberated than our parents. Sex was much more common in casual relationships, the pill was available and AIDS had not arrived in the UK. However if you overstepped the mark by dressing like a hooker you got a bad name. The girls who put it all on display where considered "easy" Now I see what would have been classed as "Easy" wandering round town on a Sat afternoon in both the under 12's and the tenagers.

It's about time we stopped opening the sweetshop doors wide and tempting the children in only to be horrified that they actually took the sweets!
Aileen

What's that my mum used to say, ah yes, your pride will keep you warm! ;)

yes Patrick. it would not be so bad if the underwear was worthy of being seen but half of it i wouldn't even dare put it on the line for embarrassment let alone walk down the street showing it off!
lea

> Now I see what would have been classed as "Easy" wandering round town on a Sat afternoon in both the under 12's and the tenagers

Not just them IMO :( I hate the current fashion for these very tight, figure-hugging skirts/dresses. Some women look great in them, but most just don't have the figure and the skirts are way too short IMO. Mutton dressed up as lamb often :) If you think how good the Duchess of Cambridge looks and how great her sister looked in a full-length dress at the wedding - why do women think that they need to show their (fat) thighs, buttocks and leave very little to men's imaginations ?? :)

Another thing that gets me is pregnant women flaunting their bump with cling-fit clothing. I'm not saying they shouldn't be proud of what they are carrying, but do we really need to see every contour. And I hate protruding belly buttons. We don't have to go back to the tents that used to be worn, there are far more stylish and flattering clothes available these days......

Haven't come across the shorts yet, it's the over weight ( usually with a few kids in tow )girls, dressed in short skimpy tops, revealing their magnificent bingo wings , muffin top and uni-boob that amaze me, I mean, do they never look in a mirror before they go out ?. 

>Mutton dressed up as lamb often

I hate that too!  Some older folk don't have any respect for themselves, looking like tarts.  I saw Anthea Redfern on a youtube film last night and I could have puked.  So much botox that her face looked deformed, and similar to a burns victim.  And her low cut dress was horrific.  Who wants to watch wrinkly, baggy breasts?  Definitely not sexy.  

Clinging on to youth is as bad as the young exhibitionists.

> Clinging on to youth is as bad as the young exhibitionists

The problem is that a lot of older women just don't have 'style' (and a lot of younger women too, but it does take a while to develop it) :) Just because something is in fashion does NOT mean that you have to wear it :) You must wear what YOU look good in - what suits your age and figure. I'm not saying that older women shouldn't wear fashionable clothes - but to look really classy you must know what suits you and a lot of fashion, IMHO, is rubbish :) :)

C'est la vie

Some 'fashion' is not for me and mine - my husband rolls his eyes, my 17yr old son nudges me, my daughter doesn't notice and at 16 is still having a 'covered-up' phase, and I just think a little bit better about myself and my own clothes choices.

Mind you Wurzel Gummidge had nothing on me this morning - I came back from a bike ride with helmet hair and just grabbed the dogs for a walk.  I dropped a blackberry down my t shirt then squashed it getting it out, my youngest dog skidded to halt flicking me from top to bottom with mud splashes, and one of the others zoomed in for a kiss from on top on some hay bales and gave me some glass slobber and a bump on the cheek.  Ooh I felt so glamourous :)  Oh and the faint whiff of muck spreading just completed the picture for my conversation with the postman when I got back - poor man.

There is one thing with them wearing hot pants but to actually walk about with them bearing their actual butt cheeks is more like wearing underwear and virtually bordering a thong!!!
Also I'm concerned some parents think their kids look good in these, sorry but you do need the right figure for anything like this and overweight girls wearing these isn't a nice look either..
The nappy nights at the local nightclub around here is a real
Nasty sight for sore eyes, even the parents picking up their kids with not only less than hot pants but also crop tops, topped with the huge belly flopping over, sorry these parents need to be teaching their kids some decorum...
It also attracts the wrong attention too :-(

>sorry these parents need to be teaching their kids some decorum...<br />

They probably haven't any decorum to teach them!!  :)  :)

I drive past the local High school in the morning when taking dd (7) to Primary.  Judging by what all the teenage girls wear the school uniform obviously is a black skirt...bum length!  I am not an old fuddy duddy but feel they are ridiculously short!

Suppose the only saving grace is that they are (generally) worn with tights.....so at least they aren't paired with Scottish blue legs (bbrrrr!)

And on that note.  It was snowing in Glencoe today.  Summer is over!

> They probably haven't any decorum to teach them

LOL - you're so right :)

Many not but after speaking to some parents they were shocked only to collect their little darlings in the same if not worse attire, lol!!! Maybe a few choice words were said in private?

But yes I agree in the main or the kids change after leaving home? However these kids weren't carrying bags to hide said covering clothing items

Parents should be taking better care of their daughters no matter what the trend, the pure and simple truth is girls wearing these shorts are enticing men/boys to think s*xually about them, it doesn't matter about all of this 'we should be free to wear what we want' rubbish the truth is we are animals with the same instincts as any other, just more controlled, but if the action isn't there the thoughts certainly will still be, if we don't want our daughters to be having unwanted male attention, early s*xual experiences and pregnancies we should take better care of the messages they are sending out, with little experience on how to handle what comes with it.

I'd like to re-vamp a lot of clothes stores..............

> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Another thing that gets me is pregnant women flaunting their bump with cling-fit clothing. I'm not saying they shouldn't be proud of what they are carrying, but do we really need to see every contour. And I hate protruding belly buttons. We don't have to go back to the tents that used to be worn, there are far more stylish and flattering clothes available these days......

When pregnant I wore fitted tops because I was extremely proud of my changing body, carrying and growing new life doing what nature intended. I dont think that is anything to be prudish about but each to their own.

I don't blame the kids, or the parents, I blame the so called fashion designers. If they didn't desin these things no-one would wear them :-(

>no matter what the trend, the pure and simple truth is girls wearing these shorts are enticing men/boys to think s*xually about them, it doesn't matter about all of this 'we should be free to wear what we want' <

couldnt agree more..

>When pregnant I wore fitted tops because I was extremely proud of my changing body, carrying and growing new life doing what nature intended<

fitted looks fine to me... its when the bump is exposed which is all too common these days.. I also dont think this is necessary ... of course I was pregnant when the big flowing dresses were the norm.. :)

> I blame the so called fashion designers. If they didn't desin these things no-one would wear them

That's a bit like blaming the gun manufacturer for someone shot with a gun ! I can't be the only person who can look at the latest fashions and say 'I don't like that therefore I won't buy it' :) :) :)

I don't think we can blame the designers either if we don't buy they will not be produced.

Trouble with this sort of thing is it escalate if short shorts shock then micro shorts will shock more and so it goes but I agree I do very much miss seeing innocent young girls around with beautiful skin and budding adult figures, it is so sad to see their faces covered in more makeup than you would use in the theater and nothing left to the imagination sad thing is a scantily clad body is far more evocative than a nude. We should be able to dress to please ourselves but I do doubt that many of these young things do the are going with the pack and will do what it takes to attract more lads than the next girl, very sad they seem to lack any self respect.

I don't like that therefore I won't buy it'

Yep! I agree,

I remember a few years ago when Britney fever was at it's best and all the tops in many high street stores were showing your belly button and all the jeans/trousers etc were very low.

Even though I still have a good figure, (for my age :-) ) no way was I wearing clothes like that, I'd have looked like a hooker, it's when I first started buying clothes from M & S but thank goodness they got more trendy and have kept my business.

The difference is, I knew the clothes would be sending the wrong message, whereas young girls don't, it's all about attracting a mate as a teenager so clothes are more daring, but girls under 18yrs should not be sending that message out.

As you mature you learn that less is more and a nice figure hugging outfit is better than one that flashes your top or bottom, but young girls don't know that, the consumer plays a part but parents are the ones who should say "NO! Are you joking, my daughter is not wearing something like that!!"

It is the only way the consumer learns..........

You mean you didn't just succumb to wearing a tent? How very dare you!!! *shakes head* personally I hate the attitude that pregnant women should hide themselves under a tent! It's one thing being half-naked but quite another just trying to dress comfortably while still trying to retain some confidence in your 'womanly-ness'.  I expect it's the same attitude that opposes breast feeding in public.

Your comments are probably aimed at me as it was me that mentioned my dislike of pregnant women wearing cling-fit clothing and exposing their bump (and protruding belly button) to all and sundry. I have no objection to women breast-feeding in public and am far from prudish (mentioned in another post). It seems it's either expose everything or a tent, where in reality it is quite possible to wear nice, feminine clothes without showing every contour. For those of you in the Look East region I can remember Julie, the weather girl, wearing some lovely clothes when she was pregnant and I think it was far more flattering than the tight clothing some wear. JMHO. :)

Exposing your bump (ie showing skin) and wearing fitted tops are two different things!
Go and have a look at maternity clothes. The majority are normal clothes (t shirts. jumpers, dresses jeans etc) but in larger sizes so will naturally cling to the curves of the body. The days of smocks and tent like tops in maternity are gone.
Sadly you have an aversion to belly buttons but pregnant women can do nothing about what is happening to their body so if they stick out, they stick out :-)

> I can remember Julie, the weather girl, wearing some lovely clothes

Yes - although my OH was most disappointed when she stopped wearing her white jeans in the summer :) :) :)