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Aibu about this trend for young girls

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Lime19 · 22/04/2017 08:33

I keep seeing teen girls about in my town wearing super short tight dresses (usually black), sometimes skirt and crop top with lots of flesh on show. The dresses are made out of material similar to leggings. The bit that gets me though is they wear it with trainers! Sports trainers!

It looks horrible in my opinion. Is this a trend? Where did it come from?

Maybe I'm getting old... I'm pretty sure my mum didn't get the trouser skirt combo I used to wear. Grin

It's just I don't get the "nice" dress paired with trainers. To me it's like wearing heels with jogging pants... not a good look.

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SoulAccount · 22/04/2017 08:57

Anything is better than high heels.

If young women are choosing trainers over high heels: good for them.

I don't care what they wear them with.

AnnieAnoniMouse · 22/04/2017 08:58

It's a look I used to wear, I like it. I'd still wear it now except I'm all the wrong shape for those dresses these days.

What's your 'look'. Per Una?

fishonabicycle · 22/04/2017 08:58

Can't see what's wrong with wearing comfortable trainers with a little dress. It's been a thing for years. Clubbing in the 90s, and before that i wore small dresses with DM boots ...

metalmum15 · 22/04/2017 08:58

I've spent my life wearing pretty girlie dresses with bovver boots - I like the contrast. Teenage fashion changes every year, I just never grew out of my early 90's teenage fashion!

metalmum15 · 22/04/2017 08:58

I've spent my life wearing pretty girlie dresses with bovver boots - I like the contrast. Teenage fashion changes every year, I just never grew out of my early 90's teenage fashion!

CaptainBrickbeard · 22/04/2017 08:59

As someone who sustained nerve damage from high heels and now has to wear trainers all the time, I didn't want to give up nice dresses as well! So I wear them together. Am delighted if a trend for comfortable and safe footwear is taking off for girls, hopefully they won't end up with the problems I did!

ohtheholidays · 22/04/2017 09:01

It's just a popular look that's been recycled.

That's been happening for years and years now with all sorts of trends and I think it looks cute,I'd rather see very young girls in trainers/flat shoes than them nearly breaking they're neck in high heels(and I love heels)that I can't yet walk in properly.

Spikeyball · 22/04/2017 09:01

It's better than the bare legs and white stilettos trend of the early eighties (complete with plasters and ankles covered in blood).

Heirhelp · 22/04/2017 09:02

I know I am getting old (I am 33) when I saw a teenage girl at the weekend wearing a cropped jumper and my first thought was she needs to put a coat on as the poor girl must be cold. My second thought was I wish I still had a flat stomach.

Cropped tops were a thing when I was a teenager.

All teenagers must wear hideous clothes, have a hideous hair style or wear hideous make up a sling it is a rite of passage.

CycleHire · 22/04/2017 09:03

I thought this was going to be about the massive bows they wear on their heads.

ShoesHaveSouls · 22/04/2017 09:04

I can remember wearing tiny dresses and Doc Martin boots at Uni in the 90's. My stepfather used to look at me and say "it's a incongruous look" Grin

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Lime19 · 22/04/2017 09:05

I'm not keen on the bows either to be honest! They are ugly

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FriendTillTheEnd · 22/04/2017 09:06

I still wear 'nice' floral dresses and the like with DMs...

usernumbernine · 22/04/2017 09:07

I wouldn't call teens young girls. Young girls to me are primary age so up to about 11?

T'was ever thus. For as long as I can remember the adults have thought the teenagers looked daft and the teenagers have thought they looked cool.

ohtheholidays · 22/04/2017 09:08

Haha,sorry that they can't yet walk in Blush

Edsheeranalbumparty · 22/04/2017 09:09

It's just I don't get the "nice" dress paired with trainers. To me it's like wearing heels with jogging pants... not a good look.

You do realise that 'formal joggers' (satin) worn with heels is a big thing at the moment? As was combat trousers with heels in the early noughties - i LOVED this very short lived look!

I noticed with amusement that running trainers are back amongst teenagers, but i actually quite like the look worn with dresses and agree that it's much better than heels. I often wear converse (which i know are the preserve of the thirty something school run mum) with dresses, is that ok?

Another one interested to know what your 'look' is OP. Do you like to look 'groomed' and 'polished'? Do you wear a Breton top with skinny jeans and a blazer and a scarf?

FrancisCrawford · 22/04/2017 09:09

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AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 22/04/2017 09:09

I still wear DMs or Converse with dresses. I'm 38.

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Lime19 · 22/04/2017 09:10

Some dresses look good with trainers. I think it can look nice. These dresses are not great. They look cheap. Skin tight and too much flesh. Dont get me wrong women can wear what they want, and I remember wearing my micro skirt to under 18 nights Grin and it's just light hearted conversation I'm having here!

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Lime19 · 22/04/2017 09:11

It's not really being individual though. It's become a uniform. Whole bunches of girls wearing the same thing...

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Lime19 · 22/04/2017 09:13

Haha my look is quite boring. Fat face jeans, plain tops and a hoodie. Converse or white stuff shoes.

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BarbarianMum · 22/04/2017 09:14

Isn't the point of teen fashion to make you wince when you get the photos out 20 years later? Or was that just the 80s?

PigletJohn · 22/04/2017 09:14

if it didn't offend oldies, they wouldn't be wearing it.

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Lime19 · 22/04/2017 09:15

Shit I think Ive realised I'm getting old. This is the first sign isn't it. Soon I won't know any of the top ten in the iTunes chart.

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Lepetitmarsellais · 22/04/2017 09:16

I was wearing mini dresses and trainers 20 years ago. It's nothing new.

I'd far rather see young girls looking comfortable in trainers than crippling themselves in stupid shoes.