Aibu about this trend for young girls

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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.

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.

Stevie - I've never got married but I'd probably do the same!

Used to do this back in the 80/90s in my clubbing days. Old Skool or skate trainers plus a dress. Much more practical for dancing til dawn.

I still do it- Breton tunic plus Norman Welsh cobras is my uniform.

Plus flat shoes make a sexy dress/mini skirt a bit more casual, less dolled up. Like the wearing tough heels with a flowery dress thing a decade or so back.

First person I remember seeing doing it was Neneh Cherry IIRC.

Yes Gatto! First person I thought of when I read the OP was Neneh Cherry. Good times!

ahh, in a Buffalo Stance on memory lane

The 90s is now vintage. Officially (well not 1998 or 1999 just yet)

My DD wears trainers and dresses which I prefer to her wearing sky scrapper heels as I would be concerned she'd look tarty and older than she is - I'm not a particular fan of the look per se, but I'd rather she wore trainers than heels

I wore skintight dresses with Adidas superstars back in the 90s, often with a denim jacket. It's kind of depressing I'm apparently so old it's already back round again!

I once visited my home country only to find that all the teen girls were wearing their socks over their jeans. In a style of "got dressed in a hurry in the dark". It didn't look good or quirky, just like an embarrassing mistake. When I first saw it I was going to gently let the young girl know to save her any embarrassing moments. Just in time, I noticed that all her friends had the same thing going on and indeed all the other teenagers I saw that day. it was bizarre, this was a couple of years ago. i think they've moved on to another bizarre trend now.

the point is, they probably think it's the height of fashion so our opinions don't matter to them one bit.

I wear dresses with my adidas gazelles. I will be 54 in June. Otherwise I wear DMs.

It didn't look good or quirky, just like an embarrassing mistake.

It didn't look good to you, or to me, but I don't think we are the people they are dressing for.

I'm sorry but I HATE this look! Fair enough it may be comfier but I do think the trainers ruin a good dress and don't look as nice as they would with a good pair of heels to match!

I'm currently a mum to a 14yr old girl hopefully if her attitude checks itself in she will turn 15 in summer and the things her & her friends wear at times is questionable my pet hate is the make up and more to the point the eyebrows!!!!
Was never a girly girl so this is a new thing for me hard to be nice when they look like a bunch of clowns!!!
Deep breathes x

I think we've gone back to the 90s

I once visited my home country only to find that all the teen girls were wearing their socks over their jeans. In a style of "got dressed in a hurry in the dark". It didn't look good or quirky, just like an embarrassing m

Some teens7young women I know wear this around the stable (not in the UK). I would have assumed it's meant to appear "country/outdoorsy"?

Fashion is pretty weird, tbh. But honestly, I don't see how anybody could have anything against comfortable shoes!

That was my clubbing gear back in the day!

Bodycon dress with Adidas gazelles is basically my uniform and I'm in my 30s. I have a selection of 7 or 8 bodycon dresses in different colours which I rotate and wear with a cardi or jumper and black tights. I think I look alright! Wear it out raving, to the pub, on the school run or to the supermarket... I dont really have 'going out clothes'.

Oh and I wore converse with my wedding dress

Feed - socks over jeans/breeches is just more comfy for riding boots. So if I've changed out of riding boots and have put trainers on then I'm likely to have long socks on

Olli

Ah... I don't ride anymore (and I used to have what we called mini-chaps and riding shoes. At least usually). But I don't remember seeing it when I was little/younger, tbh.

But my sister does that (she's much younger than I am). I honestly just kind of assumed this was a horsy-fashion thing. Oops ;)

So, if you wear riding shoes and these socks...There's no need for mini-chaps etc?

I still think people doing this as a fashion statement (so, not in a stable) may be wearing it to appear outdoorsy/horsy. But I may be wrong...

Also thinking about it... what's wrong with a nice pair of pumps or flat sandals? Or flat boots. There's plenty of other shoe types that aren't running shoes!

Also, clubbing is one thing but these girls are just hanging out round KFC on a Friday afternoon

At the end of the day people can wear whatever they like but in my opinion this look is not good.

I remember rocking a summer flowery dress with docs, loved it.

You need to butch up the frock. Nice pumps will look too ladylike.

Feed - you don't have to. What generally happens is people ride and then take the chaps or long boots off (mine were ££££) and swap to short boots or maybe trainers to drive home in or muck out so you keep your expensive stuff nice! So if I nip to the supermarket on the way home I'll just be in socks over my breeches

Olli

Oh... Yes, that makes sense. I obviously didn't have to go to the supermarket etc when I was little.

I refused to even use my boots for riding (on normal days...). I think I drove my mother mad, but I insisted that any even remotely pretty riding stuff was only for "pretty occasions" ;)

(and I used it to play "riding" at home when I was very little...)