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> Spicy schoolgirl outfits give parents fits
> by Margery Eagan
>
> Tuesday, June 15, 1999
>
> We are not sure when ``hooker chic'' became the de facto fashion
> statement of 12-year-old girls from nice families living in nice
> homes. But it's here.
>
> ``I try not to notice it,'' says Bill Haney, a Brookline father of a
> 12-year-old girl. He was looking for a pair of boring pants at the
> Back Bay Marshalls yesterday.
>
> ``I try not to,'' he says, ``but I have.''
>
> How can you not? It's everywhere. At the mall, of course. At
> graduation parties for junior high or middle school, even sixth grade.
> If you've happened by the barely pubescent in line for the new Austin
> Powers movie, what you saw is a sea of tube tops and halter tops and
> hip-hugging spandex, suck-in-your-gut capri pants and bare shoulders
> and belly buttons.
>
> Girls barely riding two-wheelers stood 5-feet 9-inches on platform
> pink glitter heels, opened toed, to match the pink glitter powder on
> their face and eyelids and lips, carefully outlined to a saucy pout.
>
> Lolitas by the dozen do Circle Cinema.
>
> And these are the daughters of the feminist revolution. Something, it
> appears, has gone awry.
>
> ``I didn't own a black bra 'til I was 21,'' said one worried mother
> decked out in a baggy housedress last week to beat the heat. ``Or a
> strapless bra either. My daughter has a strapless, backless bra. . . .
> She's 13.''
>
> As any doorman at any local hotel can testify, the high school prom
> scene for years now has been the Parade of the Trollops.
>
> What's new is the full trollop in grade school, for girls still
> wearing a JonBenet Ramsey size 6X. What's new is sex-kitten casual
> clothes, too: platform sneakers in second grade, body-clinging tank
> tops with spaghetti straps in third; T-shirts clinging like Saran
> Wrap.
>
> It doesn't much matter where you shop, except, perhaps, for horsey,
> pricey Talbots. Department stores like Filene's. Preteen specialty
> catalogues like Delia's. Preteen boutiques like Imagine in Newton or
> discount stores like Marshalls where, yesterday, next to Bill Haney's
> boring pants hung rows of cotton lycra and spandex tube tops the size
> of a kitchen-floor square tile, $9.99.
>
> Try to find what, in ancient days of yore, we called ``modest''
> attire: puffed sleeves, a collar or two. Maybe a full skirt falling
> from a high waist. Forget about it.
>
> ``The Spice Girls changed the world,'' says Scatha Allison of Newbury
> Street's trendy teenage boutique Allston Beat (which, happily, does
> not sell many of the studded dog collars hanging above its checkout
> counter to 12-year-old girls).
>
> But Allison may be right about the influence of the Spice Girls, the
> rock group all the rage a while back among 5-year-old girls, who're
> older now. And then there's the influence of MTV and Dawson's Creek
> and a slew of highly sexual teenage movies and girls' magazines.
>
> It's much in vogue to blame parents for everything now, including
> their daughters' come-hither attire. Yet the baggy-housedress mother
> can't be the only one aware that her teenager has left home in one
> parent-approved outfit while the one she'll actually wear to the party
> - or even to school - is stashed in her backpack.
>
> Says that mother, ``It's a strange thing to see men on the street, men
> older than I am, leer at my daughter,'' who is, as we said, 13.
>
> Therapist Charles Foster, author of Parent/Teen Breakthrough, offers
> some small comfort. ``Whenever young people have been able to push
> back the boundaries, they've pushed back the boundaries.''
>
> He points to the ``Flash Dance'' fad: torn sweatshirts falling off
> girls' shoulders. Or the ripped jeans fad: ripped knees, thighs, even
> rear ends. Or the micro-mini skirt fad from the '60s. ``It's a game.
> If I'm a teen-ager and I create consternation, if I shock an adult, I
> win.''
>
> But Foster also says many girls don't realize how provocative they
> appear. ``They understand in a general sense that dressing
> provocatively gives them power, but I don't think they understand
> they're playing with fire, or danger, or the kind of interest they're
> creating in the minds of the men looking at them.''
>
> So how hysterical should we be?
>
> I'd say we have our answer: Very.
>
>
>
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