New Fashion Trend: Girl Gone Mild

By Alex in Fashion on Aug 24, 2008 at 3:10 pm

There’s a strange (and refreshing) fashion trend afoot with today’s teenage girls: they’re dressing modestly!

While skimpy clothes still dominate the fashion scene, today there’s a flip side to girls gone wild.

Call it "girls gone mild" — a building modesty movement among many young women. "The young girls themselves, they are the ones leading the modesty revolution," said author Wendy Shalit.

The "modest fashion" these girls wear may not be to everyone’s taste, but most looks are straight off the catwalk. A slick new magazine Eliza caters to the modest dresser. Shalit said the thousands of young women she’d heard from wanted to fit in and be cool, just not trashy.

These new modest fashionistas prefer their necklines higher and their hemlines lower — no more than four fingers above the knee.

Link | See also this CNN article "Mom shocked by teen’s modest clothing" – via AdFreak

It seems that the Texas polygamist sect’s new online clothing store is catching on!


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  1. Sofar
    Aug 24th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    Not a new thing, it happened in the late eighties, remember? Shoulder pads and frilly blouses that went up to the neck.

  2. HollywoodBob
    Aug 24th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

    Damn now I’ve no longer a reason to go to the mall!

  3. Patrick B
    Aug 24th, 2008 at 6:06 pm

    I looked up the magazine they mentioned and it is awesome. Several of my neices will be getting subscriptions.

  4. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    Aug 24th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

    It goes in cycles.

    I really hope we don’t end up wearing corsets and full-length underwear again, though.

  5. earbox
    Aug 24th, 2008 at 7:40 pm

    It’s the end of the world!

  6. HollywoodBob
    Aug 24th, 2008 at 8:10 pm

    “I really hope we don’t end up wearing corsets and full-length underwear again, though.”

    I know a few women that wear corsets regularly, so I don’t think they’d mind that. Myself, I’d like to see men start wearing suits and hats more.

  7. Johnny Cat
    Aug 24th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    Yup, back into the wane of the cycle, which Alanis Morrisette ushered in circa 1994. Big comfy sweaters for all, then after awhile, overtly sexy waxes back into style.

  8. Idil
    Aug 24th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    Geeze, the skimpy crap people are wearing today aren’t in fashion anyway, it’s just the sluts that wear them…but that doesnt make it fashionable… and if people are calling the fashion now too skimpy, then that’s just sad…

  9. Courageous Grace
    Aug 24th, 2008 at 11:52 pm

    “I really hope we don’t end up wearing corsets and full-length underwear again, though.”

    Hey, I like my bloomers worn under a skirt. Very comfortable. In Texas heat they keep my legs cool.

    And when I spent a weekend in Wisconsin after a recent blizzard, them full length longjohns came in mighty handy.

  10. Sammy
    Aug 25th, 2008 at 6:52 am

    As a teenage girl who has never followed the fashion trends, I still have yet to see this trend in my high school.
    I swear, I wonder how these girls sit and get around school without a peep show!

    I dont dought its coming, but I havent seen it

  11. sw
    Aug 25th, 2008 at 9:09 am

    i can’t wait for the grunge look to come back around. should be any day now. flannel forever!

  12. anon
    Aug 25th, 2008 at 10:21 am

    I guess the old addage is true.
    Hem lines follow the market.

  13. shecky
    Aug 25th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

    What a load of horsecrap. Teens have always mostly dressed modestly. There is no “modest movement” because there was never a trend against modesty. Unless you’re one of those types who are still agonizing over females wearing long pants. This is the regular type of crap article that feeds into the inner fogey in many folks about how kids are all wrong these days.

    Around here in the big city, teen girls usually wear jeans and t shirts. The immodestly dressed are the exception rather than the rule.

  14. Thomas
    Aug 25th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    I am all for men wearing suits and hats again. I look dashing in a suit.


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