Modesty in young girls’ fashion?

14/15 year-olds are young girls; below that age they're children, and when they reach 18 they're young women, in my opinion.

You were literally wearing modern scrunch bum short shorts in modern gym fabrics, that pull right up to show the inside of your bum crack, @DemelzaandRoss ? Were you really?

I very much doubt it. Even Twiggy hadn’t yet obtained the power of time travel.

My image hasn’t even cleared image review yet. MN’s auto filter may well have designated it as porn, but it’s only of a shop selling current gym shorts 😆

Yes I absolutely was as were my friends. We copied Twiggy who was 15!!
At school we pushed the boundaries & wore makeup as subtle as we could get away with.
We also went out on school nights, went to clubs & were very independent.
I’m not a fallen woman & consider myself to have had a good life with lovely children & their families. Life was incredibly exciting then, not all doom & gloom like today.

It’s laughable the way some people moan & whinge about today’s so called standards.

I live in a large city and near a high school and I honestly have not seen anything like you describe. Leisure wear of various sorts and very short school skirts but young teenagers in basques and body suits? No, that’s not a thing here.

(and on the subject of well, we wore things like that back in the day, I have remembered that a body suit thing was called a cat suit and I had a couple of pairs of cycling shorts and cropped sweatshirts were a thing. Would I have worn them at 13? No, but probably only because I didn’t have a Saturday job until I was fifteen and there was no money in our house for multiple sets of clothes. I did have great fun and many missteps experimenting with clothes once I had a job, though - wish I had kept some of the pieces. My DD wore my tiered skirt, which I had kept, when they came back in fashion, what we would have called a ra-ra skirt - showing my age here).

You were wearing stuff like this at the time, were you @DemelzaandRoss ?

Well, of course the exact same clothes didn't exist - but clothes that were just as revealing certainly did exist, yet you still seem to be banging on about how they didn't.

The term "modesty" makes my skin crawl. It reminds me of those Neo-puritan American "Christians" who like to slut shame women.

Ye boys just walk around completely topless or with those vest tops cut out at the side so there's barely anything anyway...

But it’s just fact that the very specific sports clothes worn today by young women just didn’t exist in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

Posting pictures of adult women wearing things that don’t look remotely the same is not somehow proving this wrong 😆

"You don’t think a 14 year old is a young girl?"

Of course a 14 year old is a young girl.

All girls Grammar school in Dorset here, we certainly did roll up our skirts!!

Think we have Madonna to thank for bras as being worn to be seen. That's from 1984. So 41 years ago. It's not new!

You don’t think a 14 year old is a young girl?

I am definitely not lying. I was there! Young girls & teenagers wore mini skirts which got shorter & shorter each year. We also wore false eyelashes & very black eyeliner with white eyeshadow. Current fashion has copied this era!!

It definitely wasn’t fashion forward to have one’s thong on show! But absolutely fine for an adult woman to wear whatever she likes.

Would I have thought it was fine for a 12 or 13 year old to have a thong on show, however? No. Would you?

The rolling up of school skirts didn't happen at my school circa mid/late 70's. It was an all girls school, so maybe that was why🤔.

I don't like the word modesty applied to women's clothing. It implies we should all cover up but my God why do young women wear flesh covered bum scrunch leggings. There is nothing attractive about them at all.

14/15 year olds are not "young girls"
Stop infantalising teenagers

God, you're like a dog with a bone aren't you?

People have given their own experiences but because it doesn't match yours, you've decided they're all lying. Weird.

@GarlicPint is 100% correct, We must be of a similar age.
This is exactly how it was in the 1960s & beyond. Crop tops were called mini jumpers in the late 60s. We used to buy children’s sizes that were way too small. In my case a beige jumper from about M&S age 7/8 when I was 15 or so.
There is nothing new or particularly immodest in 2025. They weren’t called mini skirts or hot pants for nothing.
Also school skirts rolled over to convert to extremely short minis too.
We’ve seen it all before.

We all know what the fashions of the past looked like, but those are pictures of adult women doing sports or out on the town, and none of the clothes look like the current gym fashions, nor are they pictures of young teenage girls.

Women used regularly to go clubbing in bras and tiny hot pants in the 90s; does that mean twelve year olds were wearing the same out and about? No it doesn’t.

These are all just false equivalents.

You be you, @greengagesummers, and I'll continue to be fashion-forward in my own way. FWIW I was in my best-ever shape from age 35-45 and make no apology for having taken pride in it.

@GarlicPint but PP said it didn't happen so you must be lying

Just 'cause I enjoy this - some more pics of 1970s fashion. Yes, folks, this was FIFTY YEARS AGO!

Shucks, but young people today have no 'modesty' any more.

Ds(21) came home with his gf last night, I was sitting with my boot slippers on, blanket over my legs, and a thick jumper (we are in Scotland so it’s cold here). She was wearing shorts that were probably smaller than the knickers I was wearing (under my denims!) and a crop top! Must have been freezing although she said she wasn’t! 🤣

Having mostly boys in our family, and the girls we do have are more likely to be wearing denims, or leggings and longer tops it is a bit weird having this half dressed young woman in the house 🤣