Traci, Lena Dunham is 24. I also believe she is quite mature, even for her age. She is the owner of her own bussiness. She is making her own money and paying her own bills. And she is an independent, working adult that actually shows a good self-esteem of her as a person. She is intelligent, knows it and flaunts it every single time she opens her mouth, maybe even too much. AND I think she looks great in that outfit, which is showing off her legs but not her upper body (te shorts could have been a bit longer though). She actually knows how to dress herself in a flattering way, and that's easy to see when you watch 'Girls', since almost none of the outfits Hannah (fictional character) wears flatter the actress' body, whereas what she wears on TV interviews or formal events make her look much better. Hannah has no clue as to what flatters her body and doesn't even care, but I think Lena does.
Teenagers, on the contrary, are known for their low self-esteem, and it doesn't really have to do with whether they are good-looking or not. It is a rule that almost every teenager has low self-esteem. Either they are growing into a body that's 'weird' and different from what they were used to as kids, or they are NOT growing into any new body while the rest of their peers do, which also affects their self-esteem. The truth is, teenagers don't like to be unqiue. Even those who claim they want to be unique want to find other teenagers that dresslook/think like they do. They need to belong to a group. And they want to look like some of their peers. If your peers dress like that, so do you. Whether it looks good or not is almost irrelevant.
The problem is that when I was 12, I dressed like a child. All of my peers did. We wore patterned leggings and comfortable cotton tees and sweatpants and trainers. We had the occasional girly dress or suit for formal events. That was it. And this wasn't even that long ago. Now I see 5 years old dressing like I would: tight jeans, tall boots, blouse. They go dressed like this to school. And while they look extremely cute and stylish, it's hard for them to distinguish themselves from the adults. They dress like their mothers and their teachers! So when they start developing and having the body of a young woman, they dress like such. And because they are exploring their sexuality like there is not tomorrow, they want to attract older boy's attention, which is why they show so much skin.
- Done with the rant lol
