Decent people wear clothes to cover themselves up. Girls who wear too little clothing and show too much skin are the target of negative feedback. “Slut”, “skanky” and “whore” are just some adjectives commonly hurled at scantily clothed women. Frankly these are not words anyone would want to be associated with. So girls, cover up!

This rage of girls over-exposing themselves is nurtured by the media. In music videos, movies and the Internet, this idea of dressing scandalously is being picked up by younger generations. I recently saw four pictures of preteen girls in Newsweek, featuring Halloween costumes that looked more like the early symptoms of the skanky disease than high fashion. A girl was wearing a witch costume that had no resemblance to the witches when I awas young. Witches, in my time were ugly, foul-looking women that rode on brooms. Now witches look like porn stars.

The media portrays beauty the same way skanky fashion does. By dressing scandalously, women are throwing away their respect and dignity. Dressing like sluts destroys everything that women have fought for. People look at sophisticated girls as smart women who know how to live their lives. Dressing sophisticatedly is like making a statement: girls that dress well show people that they can dress modestly and still gain respect among peers.

Dressing is not something that should be meant to impress guys. Girls who focus too much on how they look are on the wrong path. To me, a girl too focused on her appearance will slowly begin to lose her personality, since all she considers to be important is getting attention. Even if a girl get s a guy, he may only like her for her appearance.

Even though it seems like we live in an age where you have to be beautiful to get a job in acting or a hot boyfriend, you just have to ‘fight the influence’. I bet that if girls who over-expose themselves were to put on a t-shirt over that tank top or tights with that mini-skirt, they would be able to find a group of friends that appreciate them for who they are. So, my advice to girls who think that showing what they have is the “thing” to do, and the only way to get attention is to get a grip and keep covered. Because, honestly, we do not want to see that.