is modesty in dressing dead?

I agree with you. It's pathetic. I just love it when women wear low cut shirts and very short skirts, and then complain when men ogle them. Puh-lease! It's really annoying. And what I can't understand is how parents let their own kids go out half dressed. I've heard a mom say she just lets her daughter express herslef. Okay lady. Then don't whine when your 13 year old daughter spends the night with a 30 year old dude. Barely wearing clothes attracts the wrong kind of attention. I realize I'm 29 and I sound old. But it bugged me when I was a teenager, and it bugs me now. Parents, singles, tweens, teens...some of them say that they are just following the fashion trend. Okay, you want to do what they are doing? Ya really want to? Because I don't think I'd want to dress like Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Miley Cyrus, or anyone else. I wouldn't want their lives, and I don't want their clothes.

I understand what you are saying...most women would like to flaunt their wares in public...although it looks sexy and men do lavish attention on women dressed scantily but all they get are men lusting after them not the man respecting them and seeing them in another light other than being someone just good for a ride.

I think there is a time and place for everything. Unfortunately, Madonna with her wearing her underwear on the outside and some other stars wearing clothing that belongs in bed out in public seem to have blurred things quite a bit. It is in the newspaper quite often that people wish everyone would wear more professional clothing. I feel badly for parents that have to try to dress their teenage girls if the girls want to wear the latest styles. Esp. if they go to a school that the other girls will pick on them if they don't. That's why some schools have school uniforms.

I still hold modesty pretty high. People keep on telling me that if I've got it then I should flaunt it... but I don't want to. I don't like guys treating me like I'm a piece of meat. I'm not ashamed of my body at all, quite the opposite. I happen to think that the world doesn't deserve to see it.

I don't think so, not necessarily. Of coruse, we aren't in the 1950's anymore - it's more socially acceptable, at least in the US, to "flaunt" what you got, but I know quite a few girls who just aren't comfortable enough with themselves to do this.

As a guy, I'm sure I'm not qualified to say anything here because I'm sure my side of the gender has helped propagate the notion of dressing 'sexy' and having revealing clothes for women. But also call me old fashioned because I think what women wore in the 50's and 60's are also 'sexy' to me. When girls were modestly clad and all prim and proper.