The Fate of Your Daughters Depends on.... Leggings?

 

When I was in high school... all of 4 years ago... leggings were just starting to be popular and acceptable again, a step down from skinny jeans, at first they were mostly worn with tunics and short dresses. Today, leggings are pants (my sister used to say "leggings aren't pants!"), yoga pants are go to the pep rally pants, and one high school principle isn't happy about it! (http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/minnesota-high-school-cracks-down-leggings-yoga-pants-162400819.html)

At first I was really self conscious about wearing leggings as pants, I thought people would be staring at my butt all day, and I wasn't to happy about that, I also felt kind of... naked. Leggings are basically a second skin, at least skinny jeans are jeans and look like jeans, not like your going to speed skating practice. Would I let my 15 year old daughter wear a spandex skin to high school? Since I was a teenage girl, chances are she is bound to do it anyways, I did, but when you have a baby its like everything you did as a kid is now a lesson for you to tell your kids NOT to do... again they will probably do it anyways. But to the question... no, because I know how boys (and creepy men) are and I'm not ready to let my (fictional) babygirl grow up yet!!!

More importantly I want to know, how did we go from thinking an ankle was sexy, to little girls wearing belly shirts and dancing like strippers? Somewhere in the last 70 years, women have voluntarily turned themselves into everything their mother's were not, and it's like a competition between the generations to see which one is the sexiest... but not when your mom goes to the club in a shorter dress than you... you definitely win that one, it's what you don't show that can be the difference sometimes. My mother is a "cool" mom, she likes to shop and she doesn't wear pants, only skirts and dresses, also, she mostly wears high heels, a habit I am trying to break myself out of (flats are not frumpy, flats are not frumpy) she taught me all I know about being frugal, and she has some modesty about her, but she goes out and has a good time, she certainly isn't a wallflower. So growing up, she pretty much let us do almost anything we wanted within reason, so I never felt the need to rebel... rebel against what? Oh mom you suck, I hate that you didn't make me clean my room *insert other various teenage issues* so I'm gonna try to get attention from the world by dressing prospectively ... that will surely show you! As a result,  I was able to slowly become my own person and make my own decisions... blah blah blah and I came out awesome, in the scope of things, would it have mattered if I wore yoga pants to school or not? Probably.. NOT. Seriously, teens are wearing these "pants" because they are lazy, because leggings are comfy, because they think they look good... newsflash... your 15, who are you looking good for? The senior boy who is just going to want you for your sexy yoga pants and then break your heart, leaving you with baggage for the next yoga pant lover... dating in  high school is so WACK, don't do it. I think leggings and yoga pants are so popular now because we see them on celebrities and what not, TV makes girls want to be sexy, and leggings come in all kinds of cool designs now too! So I can't really blame the girls, I wear them too :)

So who are these "sexy" girls? I'm willing to bet... the only ones they are concerned about from a sexual perspective is, well, the skinny, curvy girls (size 4 with D cups in 9th grade, I hate that bitch, it took me at least until 11th grade to past a C cup!)< combination of all the hormones in our food not to mention the birth control they throw at growing girls. ANYWAYS, if your shapely teen is going to be a slut... she will be a slut with or without the help of yoga pants, let's get real.... Yoga pants might turn the boys on, but your daughter is the one who has to allow it to be anymore than an awkward boner in class, I'm just saying. I agree with the principle from the article... cover your butt, your underage, and haven't these girls heard of camel toe? When did that stop being embarrassing?  Also, the female faculty is not "hating" on you(teenage girl) because you "look" good when they ask you to dress more modest... OHH how did she know that's what I was thinking? Again I was a teenage girl... but they really were unfair to me, I did NOT break the dress code as much as she said! School is there to mold you into productive, classy ladies who can only hope to be able to attract a man who is about something more than the stripper dress you wore to the club that night... trashy teens turn into trashy women. So if they can catch you on that slippery slope now, maybe you will be saved... before you need to "saved" as men say.

Modesty starts in the home and can be enforced in school, but at the end of the day, if you don't raise your kid right, they are gonna make bad decisions, yoga pants or not. You(parents) do know Stacey can still get down with the boys in a turtleneck and long skirt, right?

What's your take? Are yoga pants and leggings really THAT bad? Do you negatively judge parents who allow their girls to wear leggings as pants? What do you tell your teen? Sound off in the comments section!