Have you gone shopping for a homecoming dress lately? Who is buying these dresses? Let’s start with the fact that 80 percent of the dresses are strapless. Does everyone really want to go to a dance and spend the evening tugging their dress up? And what about all the dresses with cutouts in the middle – when did this become fashionable?
I know the teens reading this are thinking – she is too old to understand. But maybe, just maybe I do understand. So let me guess – you want a great dress, one that you look good in and feel good in – right? I agree that’s why I’m suggesting that you don’t want one that you have to worry about.
Tugging up the top of a strapless dress, or pulling down a short skirt is not the photo you are hoping everyone will see (and you can bet that the worst shots are shared the most). Homecoming should be fun – a night of friends, dancing, having a great time… and yes maybe a bit of romance. But in order for all that to happen, trust me ladies, you want a dress you feel confident in. Confidence (and lack thereof) is easy to see on anyone. Everyone recognizes it when it walks in the room, don’t you? So give yourself that extra boost, and get a dress that you don’t have to think about all night.
I have been to several stores last Spring and already this Fall shopping for dresses for my teenage daughter. I can’t believe what stores are selling young teens. Why are so many of them strapless and cut short? And who wants to wear a dress with diamond shaped cutouts at the waist? What is the point of this? To my teen readers – believe me enjoy your youth – don’t try to look 25, until you are 25. Should you get a cute, fun dress? Yes, definitely! But don’t let the stores and magazines convince you what you should wear. Just because that is what they are trying to sell, doesn’t mean you have to buy it. Pick a dress that you can confidently dance all night in and not worry who is getting a picture of what while you’re out on the dance floor.
Does how you dress matter? Yes. Don’t get me wrong, the way a person dresses is never an invitation for unwanted attention, but let’s be sensible girls – you wear a dress cut down to there, with a hem up to here – guys are going to notice. So wear a dress that lets them notice you, without wondering if that satiny fabric is going to slid 2 inches and reveal more than it should.
“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women’s clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.”
Anatole France April 16, 1844 – October 12, 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist
“No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.
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