Why Do Parents Buy And Let Their Daughters Wear Revealing Prom Dresses?
especially mothers…how can they let their daughtes wear revealing prom dresses?
why do they buy it for the girls?
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That’s a good question as to why parents allow it. I remember when I was a teen always wearing the modest prom dress because I was more comfortable dressed that way and also my parents would never allow me to have left the house wearing anything but something that covered me up.
September 12, 2009 7:51 am | #1I won’t be buying anything revealing for my daughter and as long as she lives under my roof, 18 or not, she won’t be leaving the house in anything revealing either. Hopefully I will teach her to respect herself enough to choose not to wear those clothes, but just because something is fashionable does not make it okay.
Oh, yeah, modest doesn’t mean old-fashioned or even ugly. My mom MADE all my formal dresses when I was in high school, and they were all very beautiful. They had sleeves, decent necklines, covered my back and were long enough (I preferred long to short anyway–even now I’d rather wear mid-calf skirt rather than even knee length–less chance of the wind blowing them up and revealing something). When my parents moved away when I was in college, they sold them all to younger girls who wanted something modest to wear to their own proms.
So many mothers are just as consumed as the teenagers are by the positive connotation put on being sexy by the media. It’s just another way that women are being degraded into thinking that their bodies are what makes them attractive, and the more they flaunt the more beautiful they are. Such a lie.
September 12, 2009 8:23 am | #2The only person I want to see in revealing clothes is my wife.
I honestly don’t know. I had to have my mom make mine because there wasn’t anything available that I would have wanted to be caught dead in. It’s even worse now that I have to find dresses for military balls. I seriously have to hunt to find an appropriate dress for my tastes. Last time I had to go to the malls in five different cities to find a modest or easily altered dress that was also a maternity formal.
September 12, 2009 8:42 am | #3there are a few reasons i believe. most prominently because now it’s sort of an excuse to dress slutty but with glitter so it’s ok. and parents are soooo concerned with pleasing their teenage girls or else they won’t be the cool mom or dad.
September 12, 2009 8:47 am | #4psh. it’s horse baloney.
you can be pretty, attractive, hot, whatever you want to call it without being revealing.
Because mom are jealous that they aren’t the ones that can’t dress that way anymore. Just a guess. I think subconsciously they want to be the ones in the dress so they are “OH I WOULD LOOK TOTALLY HOT IN THAT DRESS”. so then they buy their daughters the dress to make themselves feel better.
September 12, 2009 9:15 am | #5I am not at the point where I need to do the “prom dress thing.” My daughter is seven. Different people find different things revealing. I would be okay with a strapless gown, for example, but not one of those gowns that has the middle cut out to show the stomach. Sorry, but that looks cheap and trashy. Different parent have different standards, and some may make exceptions because it’s the prom.
September 12, 2009 9:24 am | #6I have no idea! Maybe to teach them a lesson? Or maybe they really don’t care. I’m guessing that some of these girls buy it themselves, hide it, and somehow manage to change before prom.
September 12, 2009 10:16 am | #7I remember, at my prom there was a girl who’s dress was SO SHORT you could see her butt hanging out. And she would open her legs… =[ Poor thing. She wasn’t wearing underwear. She was heavy-set and people just kind of stayed away from her.
EDIT* I’m not offended by the human body, but it is morally unacceptable for girls to dress in such provocative ways in a public, FORMAL event. They can walk around that in clubs, around their house, around their friends, in whorehouses… I don’t care. But they need to realize that not everyone wants to see their body. It is just rude for people to force others to see them dressed in such a way.
EDIT** What is in style is one thing, but what it outrageously inappropriate is another. When there is too much skin being showed, it is no longer ‘classy’ or ‘in’, but trashy. EX: http://s3.amazonaws.com/wisdm/attachment…http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/20…http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SD06kDHcZ6w/Sb…
well basically because thats whats in style..i jus had my prom last night and ill tell ya there really isnt a girl without somewhat of a revealing dress..girls dont want to wear 1800’s clothes..and girls like feeling comfortable and cool (temperature that is)…plus its the night that a girl can wear those slutty-ish looking clothes and honestly not get beaten down for it bc most of the dresses r like that and especially if its expensive and from a really good store then other girls will admire it not hate it….mothers are women too u have to remember and they had proms aswell
September 12, 2009 10:55 am | #8Link an example of what you mean OP
September 12, 2009 11:47 am | #9Did you mean something like an open back sleeveless coctail dress? That’s in the norm, it’s hot, celebs wear them, teens wear them. If you mean ones that allow for Nip slips and are at the same length as a miniskirt then you have a point thats its too much.
I chose my own formal dress. And I paid for it myself, with my own money.
September 12, 2009 12:21 pm | #10At the age of 17, I was making my own clothing choices. There is nothing wrong with revealing a little every now and then. There is a difference between revealing and sl^tty.
ya know thats a good question.
September 12, 2009 12:36 pm | #11As a teen girl, i always thought that was pathetic. they need to cover up! it shows their insecurity. they feel that they will be more attractive. so parents need to make them cover up and gain self confidence.
my mom doesnt. I dont want to look like a “slut”. some women have lower standards of what is right for their daughters to wear…
September 12, 2009 1:02 pm | #12Because proms are for high school seniors, right?
September 12, 2009 1:39 pm | #13They aren’t girls, they are mostly 18 year old adults.
not sure
September 12, 2009 1:47 pm | #14um why do u care!!!
September 12, 2009 1:53 pm | #15