[daybreakcoming]

I believe it is more complex. Reseach needs to be done on why women/mothers dress their young daughters as Britney wannabes. Are they trying to market them in a way that they themselves can't be marketed any longer? Is the media/parent teaching them they are of no value unless they dress this way?

[weegee]

Some parents want to be "friends" to their kids instead of parents. They want to be perceived as "cool".

[Rubber_Duckie_27]

Some of it may be due to parents simply not caring what their daughters wear. I know that had I tried to dress in the more popular styles when I was in high school, my mom or dad would have dragged me back in the house and made me change. I wasn't one of the "cool kids" - who were incidentally the ones drinking, smoking, having sex, etc - but as a young adult I now appreciate that my mother took the effort to get me to dress nicely.

It's hard, even as an adult woman, to find nice, younger-looking clothes that are feminine yet modest. I obviously don't want to appear frumpy. It is very worth it, though - my clothing is modest enough that my male co-workers are comfortable looking at me (other young women at work like to show off a lot more!), yet I certainly don't "blend in" with the men.

I feel quite feminine by wearing nice clothes that cover me up - I don't need to wear a long frilly flowered dress to feel feminine.

[bootless]

Reseach needs to be done on why women/mothers dress their young daughters as Britney wannabes.

I have no research, but I think these mothers are trying to be their daughters' friends rather than their mothers. (Anyone who saw Mean Girls would remember Amy Poehler as the really pathetic mom trying to be hipper than her teenage daughter and friends.)

[Smokin' Joe]

Reseach needs to be done on why women/mothers dress their young daughters as Britney wannabes. Are they trying to market them in a way that they themselves can't be marketed any longer?

Go and look around any national chain department store and you will see why. There is almost nothing non-trashy and feminine for young women to wear. There was more femininity in a parochial school uniform than what you find on the racks.