Yes,I know,none of my business

[Idayatatime]

Last night DH & I enjoyed a rare night out. As we were waiting in the queue for our taxi home two attractive girls who couldn't have been more than 18 got out of the taxi & headed across the road to a local nightclub. As they emerged from the taxi I couldnt believe it.I am not exagerating when I say one of the girls was wearing a skirt that was so tight & short her bum cleavage was totally visible. I find this offensive & can't believe a girl would leave the house dressed like this. I believe its nobody else's business how a girl wishes to present herself but I can't understand why anyone would agree with this particular look.

Was the a hole showing? I presume they wouldn’t let her in. Bum cheeks are always on display, like boys’ pants. It’s grunge, but so what? I admire their laissez-faire attitude 😏

I don't think i'll ever be as relaxed as you. I'm so dreading my 8yr old getting into her teens, I cannot imagine being proud of a 17yr old going out "wearing barely anything" 😮

Again I will iterate. I pointed this out to him.

My friend in the 2000s used to go clubbing in body paint and a pair of knickers. Looked amazing. Your only young and beautiful for a short time, let them have a bit of fun.

Doesn’t mean he didn’t have a gawp though, as you yourself admitted

I just don’t want to see anyone’s bum cheeks in any public place but a beach. The sex, age, size and shape makes no difference. I’m free not to like this trend.

I keep reading about the 1960s and most short 60s minis look positively conservative against the belt skirt displaying buttocks. Same as 70s hot pants - yes there were a few who pushed the shortness but most covered the whole bum despite being very very short. In the 60s and 70s I think trad knickers rather than thongs would have been worn. I don’t think it’s comparable.

I think the point is that they do not care. I'm not saying it's right, but look around you. Do any of the people you see out in the public seem to care about anything else except themselves and the clicks and likes they may get on the social media? Very few do. Nothing we can do about it, tbh.

I did not

That comment wasn’t aimed at you.

Thank you. The fact I don't think its appropriate for girls to go out at night displaying their bum is neither here nor there. To those who support it you do you with your own daughters.

Imo it’s an ugly, vulgar trend and not one young woman or girl looks good in that style, no matter how attractive they are.

@Passingthroughagain In the real world, on any given night, there is a multitude of men out there sniffing for prostitutes.Unless they have some weird boiler suit fetish, they will hone in on skimpily clad women who fit their idea of what a prostitute looks like. This is not to say a skimpily clad woman is a prostitute, of course not. But is it any great surprise if she is mistaken for one?
That's not victim blaming, it is the real world. Not the world you would like it to be. Sure, women should be able to dress how they want, no matter how hideous some of us think this bare arse fashion is. But you cannot change the fact that men on the hunt will simply follow their instincts

So what's your solution? That women should stay covered up?!

I don't have a solution. But common sense tells me that hanging out in a red light district flaunting your arse would be asking for trouble

Who's hanging out in red light districts?! The thread's talking about women in skimpy "next to nothing" clothes on a night out.
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Who are being likened to prostitutes and "asking for trouble" if they're not sufficiently covered up.

I was replying to a poster about women being abducted by men thinking they were prostitutes. Some clubs are in red light areas. Many people actually live in such districts too. Not a great idea to be coming home from a night clubbing looking like some punter's dream

I'm a mother of boys, so thank God I don't have experience of trying to moderate teenage girls' clothing.

However, I have been a teenage girl, in the 1980s, when my role models were Siouxsie Sioux (probably spelt wrongly, sorry), Claire Grogan, Debbie Harry, Annie Lennox.

Can you imagine any of those women walking around with their butt cheeks and cracks on show (and Debbie Harry was/is one of the sexiest women ever)?

Yes, it's an old-fashioned view, but my friends and I would never have been allowed to set foot outside our homes with our arses on show.

At school we wore massive thick, dark coloured knickers over our "ordinary" knickers when playing hockey or lacrosse or netball or tennis, to cover up (very frankly) any hint of bum-crack or cunt/labia when our short skirts flew/blew up during exercise. We viewed it, grumpily, as repression, at the time, but actually it was a freedom, to be athletic.

I disagree strongly with people saying it's fine for girls to dress this way, as it's just the current fashion, it's "empowering". No. It's demeaning. It's disempowering.

Those teenage boys shambling around with their jeans or "trackies" pulled down under their Calvins (or whatever is the current fashion in idiot underpants) are laughable, right? Why encourage girls to go that low?

Looking like a whore?

Hang on a min, you saw a young woman oblivious to her wardrobe malfunction on a boozy night out and you said nothing to her? I couldn't stand back and not tell her. Would you not just leg it up to her and say 'Excuse me love, did you know your skirt was riding up?'. Especially with the likelihood of encountering drunken males. I'd rather mention it and risk getting told to fuck off than say nothing only for some dirty get to grab hold of her backside.

I'd be more concerned if he didn't

What do you mean by that?

it is true i dont really like that type of gym shorts that highlight butt cheeks… but hey so many 50 yo women told me to pull my low waist jeans up because my g-string was showing when i was in my 20s…

Exactly.
The more I read these replies the more I realise that some MNetters have lived sheltered lives or never lived in cities.
Most nightclubs are in the town centre of a city, because no-one in a suburban area wants to have a building there that creates a lot of noise until 2.00.am and means a load of drunken people vomiting in their doorways or urinating in their front gardens..
You'll also find that a lot of "red light areas" are close by. That's because the 'ladies of the night' work in areas where there are a lot of people and hopefully a lot of punters
Try Hull city centre and Paragon Street station at night to see what I mean. Or Liverpool Lime Street Station and Lime Street itself.

A man will look. It all depends on the amount of flesh a woman gives them to look at. If it is bum cheeks that appears to be the fashion today then so be it. I don't apologise for saying no relative young daughter of mine would leave the house looking like that.

Wow, the misogyny just drips from your posts.