Gaylene, you are right. At the college where I teach many young girls have them, and I hallucinate because I am transported back in my own teenage years looking at them. True, with no hips it does look different, but there are also many girls with fuller figures proudly donning the style, especially in baby-blue thin and moulding denim. And I admit, as impossible as it sounds, it does flatter them, in a strange, antipodal way.
This said, the powder-blue denim ones are VERY hard to pull off even among young girls, and most of them are a miss to my eye.