Verified by Psychology Today. Parenting Is a Contact Sport. Clothes are a very powerful way to communicate. They connote certain things about who you are and give specific messages-to express anger or sophistication, to flirt and indicate that you're ready for a sexual encounter, or to show the world that you're prim and proper.
Battling With Your Teen Over Sexy Clothes? Tips for Parents – Psychology Benefits Society
Dina Simpson used to get upset with her daughter when she wanted to wear leggings to school. But as offensive as the leggings seemed, they were not half as bad as the outfits Simpson herself used to don as a teenager in the 80s. Fashion, she eventually reasoned, changes as quickly as the seasons. Indeed, the history of the American teenage-parent clothing wars dates back to at least the turn of the century, says Beth Dincuff Charleston, a professor of fashion history at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. Mothers in the s, for instance, wore stiff corsets and close-fitting dresses in order to fit the Gibson-girl, wasp-waisted feminine ideal of the time.
One Mother Puts Her Foot Down on the Subject of the Bandage Dress
This is a story about how the unwritten fat girl rules used to control my life. Back in the day before social media and the internet, checking snail mail in an actual mail box was an exciting time for a new teenager. I waited with bated breath for the latest edition of Seventeen Magazine to show up in my mailbox. Combat boots optional.
It's the start of a new school year - which means it's also the time of year where controversy over school uniforms starts to appear across the UK. Take the case of one teenage girl who was sent home from school on the second day of the term, after teachers told her that her trousers were too tight. Scarlett O'Donoghue, 14, was pulled to one side by staff and told to change her pants or go home. Claire was contacted by Forge Valley School in Sheffield, on Wednesday to be told her daughter was not allowed into class.