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.

My actual riding boots aren't designed for walking in at all, very thin sole and I am desperate not to ruin them as made to measure so I literally ride then change instantly

Sandals 😂😂😂

I'm going out tonight and will be rocking a floral tea dress and a black cardigan with thick black tights and my 10 hole docs. Will have curly auburn hair, and nothing but some black mascara and a bit of rose lip gloss.

In my head I'm still a teenager!

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

That was a hideous and baffling look.

I always wore doc martens with pretty dresses. Never wore uncomfortable high heels. To me it was all about comfort and not being crippled by your footwear.

I love the very girly dress and Doc Marten combo. It never worked for me. The girly dress part was a doddle but the most uncomfortable, unwearable, crippling footwear I've ever owned was Doc Martin's.

OP whats wrong with commuting in trainers? I walk 45 mins each way. Couldnt do that in work shoes for certain!

Shoes they can walk in? How will they get husbands?

I used to wear dresses with trainers/boots/cons/dms in the early 90s.

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!

I agree. Trainers look horrible.

There is everything wrong by definition with a 'nice pair of pumps'.

One should always guard against looking like a Lady.

Trainers look weird with "going out" dresses if you know what I mean. Its like wearing a tracksuit with stilettos, it doesn't look right.

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In the 80s i remember puffball skirts and stripey tights. Must have looked ridiculous.

I remember my English teacher asking me , in about 1985, why I was wearing doublet and hose. He had a point!

I feel my generation looked fairly amazing wearing a ruff and plus fours.

I actually walked around my city centre wearing a black ruff and black blusher with blue lipstick. I thought l looked amazing😄😄😳😳

In 3 years time, 1990 will be THIRTY YEARS AGO!

Nice pair of pumps?😵😵😵yuk l've never owned a pair and hope l never will.

Aren't pretty dresses being worn with ankle boots also a thing now?

This has been a thing since oooh at least 1850. Honestly, much as I like pretty dresses worn with flat boots, ankle boots, little lace up Victorian boots, Doc Martens it is hardly cutting edge.

As for guarding against looking like a lady - speak for yourself. I greatly admire Audrey Hepburn , Grace Kelly and Catherine Deneuve. I bet they never wore trainers except on a tennis court.

Nice pair of pumps?yuk l've never owned a pair and hope l never will

I feel exactly the same about trainers. And I have never owned a pair and never will.

I like the contrast of a formal, pretty dress and trainers. I love wearing a maxi dress with converse.

I actually think it's a positive if young girls these days can "dress up" without mangling their anatomy/feet in stupid heels or wedges like I used to squish my poor feet into!

Sensible teenagers. Those of us who walk a lot (most people) have to wear shoes we can walk in like trainers and then you might change at work or for a meeting.

Also it's really important teenage girls realise they can be strong and fit and run and jump and have shoes that allow them to do that even when they are going to parties. They are humans and need clothes they can move around in. If boys don't like that or older women that's just tough. they will have to lump it.

Totally agree tinsel heels are the work of satan. I did a Naomi Campbell style fall in platforms back in the day and ended up with a bone sticking out of my foot and its never 100% recovered.

It's edgy don't you know.

Why are people so bitchy about what teenage girls wear? They are kids. They think they look nice. If people were bitching about what any other woman was wearing, they would be (rightly) jumped all over. Why are girls fair game?

It makes me laugh that there seems to be this acceptable MN uniform of "Breton, skinnies and Converse" ( which I wouldn't be caught dead in) and yet when teenage girls wear their own "uniform" it's somehow worthy of derision.

And OP, you do realise that trainers can be for fashion, not just sport right?

IMO most teenagers look fab in anything. I wore lots of different "looks" in my younger years. It's fun

It's now I'm older I find I have to put some thought into what suits me.

I wore Mary Quant dresses and mini skirts with over the knee boots. White ones.
Another combo was a purple tunic worn with yellow tights and turquoise shoes.
1967, I was 19 and studying fashion and design at Art college.

I wore leggings with silver stars down the sides. Under a rara skirt and over fishnets. With DM's with red ribbon laces😵

I was also studying fashion at university. In the 1980s.