Modesty: Cover Up, Please!

Today, I was reading my magazine, Seventeen, and I noticed that in the 'fashion' section it is now 'in' to cut off the bottom half of your shirts to show your stomach.  Apparently, it is not only extremely cute, but also modest.  I'd like to hear out the person who came up with that one.  What happened to real modesty?  Do people even know what modesty means anymore?  Dictionary.com says that modesty is 'freedom from vanity; regard for decency of behavior, speech, dress, etc.; simplicity, moderation'.

Let's face it; in our country it isn't popular to be the good girl and it's because of who girls are looking up to.  Nowdays, we have Lady Gaga walking around in only police tape calling herself a role model to young girls; Miley Cyrus posing for undressed photos with a fan range of 7-12; and Kesha wearing next to nothing while all her fans try to 'get her look'.  I think that a big problem right now is that so few are telling young girls that immodesty is wrong.  Everyone is so worried about hurting others feelings and not being politically correct that we're letting too many things pass by.  If we continue to 'let this one pass', our morals will slip away.

This is a hard statement for a teenager to write, but here it is- parents aren't controlling their kids enough.  When I want to go out somewhere with my friends, I have to go through a series of questions and my parents make sure I have enough clothes on.  Not enough parents do that.  When you have children, you have to be a boss and you have to watch your kids.  I really wish someone would get up and tell the stars that they need to put on some clothes.  I really wish that someone would tell bad parents that they need to parent their kids. They are not helping their kids and they aren't helping anyone else.  You can wear nice clothes that flatter you while covering everything up.  You don't have to show your stomach.  You don't have to wear skin-tight clothing.