Inspecting Adolescent Underwear Models
Thursday, September 24th, 2009Lingerie manufacturers have already discovered a booming market of teenager girls for whom shopping in a lingerie department is a real adventure.
As young customers is the biggest demographic group, and it quickly increases, the sellers take into account their tastes and likings which can be very different from that of the elder generation.
They are fond of spangles and bright colors, but nevertheless they see the border between relaxedness and dissoluteness and tend to choose more modest lingerie units that they are supposed to do according to the common prejudice.
That’s why the manufacturers strive to find the golden middle. Recent survey conducted among adolescents in the U.S.A. show that they like some playfulness in lingerie they wear but still don’t appreciate completely transparent things.
But sale results tell us another story and disclose a big interest of young people towards open bras and almost invisible panties. But should it mean an increase in adolescent sexual activity? We should rather treat it as their attempt to imitate a “grown-up” style.
The undergarments for grown-ups have made their way from comfort to a more stylish design, and we can expect the same for youth lingerie. And pop-stars whom teenagers admire will definitely encourage such tendencies. However, it happens not for the first time. Remember the 90-s? Then Madonna’s style made a revolution in youth clothing.
Though there exists another opinion coming from the organizations guarding family values. They claim that it’s very difficult to bring up children when the pictures of half-dressed women hang everywhere. They maintain the idea that if there were less such sexual pictures all around, teenagers wouldn’t choose such open underwear.
The manufacturers don’t want to quarrel with them and claim that their lingerie is for 18-year-olds and older at the same time admitting that a great many of their buyers are teens. Statistics says that only 10 percent of young people prefer traditional lingerie while the others wear bright, provocative and very sexual garments.
In less than a month bikini will be celebrating its 63rd birthday. On July 5, 1946 it was presented to public on the demonstration of a new summer collection from Christian Dior. Dancers from Moulin Rouge were invited to demonstrate bikini because none of the models agreed to step onto the podium in such an undisguised outfit. There are rumors that Micheline Bernardini, who demonstrated bikini, received over 50,000 proposals afterwards.
