Bums hanging out of the bottom of teeny tiny shorts

They look nothing like this, they're way shorter and most of the girls wearing them do not have figures that those girls have in the photos!

Seriously, where do you draw the line? Do some people think it's acceptable to go round Tesco in a bikini? No matter what you look like in it? But it wasn't okay for people to wear PJs round the shops? Happy for it to become the norm that people are 95% naked in a food shop? On the bus? At work? Why don't we just all wear what the F we want all the time? Why?

People had a hell of a lot more self respect and pride in 1976 than they do now. You wouldn't have seen massive beer guts hanging out all over the place back then. Society is grim now in every respect.

Unfortunately if you look at pop music today it’s like feminism never happened. Half if not more of the most popular female stars are stripped off half the time - Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift, Black Pink, Beyoncé, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa etc

The best advice I can give is concentrate on your own life, keep your eyes to yourself and mind your own business.

MN is obsessed about what people wear - it’s weird.

Some young women will always want to attract the male gaze and so some fashion lines will always cater to that look. The most shocking thing is some parents allowing their children to go out half dressed. But if adult men/women want to “dress to impress” that’s their prerogative.

It's a pity that a lot of the verbal putdowns are no longer allowed because the little cherubs are too sensitive and they might be 'triggered'. They were certainly effective, a 'well endowed' newly qualified teacher used to get comments from the teenage boys until the day when one of them told her what he'd like to do to her. She drew herself up to her 5ft 2ins and told him 'Don't send a little boy to do a man's job', his coterie of friends fell about in hysterics, he was as red a a post box but he never said it again, to anyone!

Google topless dresses in the 1960s! They were like a dress with a very low back worn back to front! Outside of Carnaby St and similar conscientiously trendy places they never reall caught on though/

Yes a little bit at the bottom, not the whole cheek.

1970s hot pants often did reveal bum cheeks.

In my early years of teaching there was one pupil who kept doing the button undone zip half down trouser look. She was hauled in by a mature female teacher who told her to sort it out because she looked like a tart ( no you couldn't say that now) This put a stop to it.

Why, just for being men? Why is it OK to criticise male clothing choices but not female? The MN hypocrisy bus is on the road again!

All this talk of “Dirty Old Men”, when does a male become a dirty old man ? is it when they pass 45 years old or earlier? Females in all species on this earth are attractive to the male species, otherwise we would not exist.

I'm a wheelchair user, it's a bit difficult not to when they're at my head height and walk in front of me....

No you dont. People didn't dress like that in the 1970s, it would have been totally unacceptable.

It's just a bum - I don't really have an issue with it. I would have an issue with leering men but that's a separate thing. If a man is that way inclined, longer shorts won't solve it - he'll still find someone to leer at.

I wore short shorts when I was younger but not with half my arse showing. But it's up to them.

Thongs on the street with a couple of inches of fringed belt? We're not talking hotpants or Daisy Dukes.

I'm in my sixties. This is a look that comes and goes. I remember it in the 1970s.

I agree people should wear what they want but within reason.
When I see these young girls walking around with their cheeks hanging out and then the men, young men, old men looking at them knowing exactly what’s going through their minds it makes me feel quite sick. Doesn’t take much imagination.
No way would I want my daughter being thought about like that.

It is an unsavoury sight, I agree.

On Saturday afternoon driving back home from town, a young woman was walking along the road with her very short jeans type shorts that had the button undone and the zip halfway down so you could quite clearly see the top of her pants.

Both me and friend in the car noticed as we drove by, it was very hard not to.

I really don't understand why you would go out like that no matter how old you are, classy it definitely isn't, vulgar it certainly is.

I saw a girl in big knickers in Tesco. And there were teenagers in bodysuits in the shopping mall. It's too much.

It matches my experience though. I've been harassed and yelled at wearing long skirts with long sleeves, full business trouser suits and all kinds of conservative and even ugly stuff. There was an uptick if I was wearing something sexy (although I was also much younger then) but I absolutely got harassed, a lot, when nobody could possibly argue that it was about my clothes. Actually, the only times I ever got groped were when I was wearing trousers and a fitted top.

Hah, yes, that's pretty unwelcome as well! Luckily, no one is trying to argue that's an empowering choice, and people all seem to understand that no one wants to see it!

Not my cup of tea, but it seems to be the fashion. These things tend to go in cycles.

What ‘certain type of female’ is that then?