Homecoming season is upon us and all the bubbly teen girls have gone shopping for hours and come home with what they think is the perfect dress. Facebook and Twitter is awash with photos in front of suburban brick homes taken by proud parents.
Expecting to see girlish dresses and big smiles, you cannot imagine my horror in viewing some of these photos, posted by mothers and fathers for all the world to see more of their baby girls than anyone really should. Pretty Woman, starring Julia Roberts as a street-walking prostitute, came out in 1990.
In just 23 short years, what she wore on the streets of Hollywood Boulevard to pick up Richard Gere for an expensive hotel romp is now worn by pre-pubescent, suburban 15-year-olds to their first high school dance.
And these girls aren’t stowing their tiny dresses in backpacks to change once they get out of parental view, oh no! They are buying this stripper-wear with the permission of their parents and then posing for photos out in front of the family home. “Look at my daughter! Isn’t her tightly wrapped body and bare thighs stunning to look at?” This is incomprehensible parenting.
My father did on many occasions stop me on my way out of the house with the standard, “That looks like underwear. Go put on some pants!” order. And my mother accompanied me to every dressing room and made me do embarrassing things in every outfit I tried on like, “touch your toes, bend over, jump up and down,” and am I glad she did. She saved me the embarrassment of having photos like these wandering around the Twittersphere.
Parents, I don’t know where you’re going with dressing your little girls like $10 hookers, but I don’t think it’s wise. Is there anyone out there who understands what age-appropriate means? Further, is womanly beauty only able to shine through bedazzled hooker costumes? Out of all of these dresses, not one of them is beautiful or flattering to the girl wearing it.
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