Fashion

[[image:http://www.plusshe.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Jeggings-Front-and-Back-View.jpg width="150" height="150" align="left"]]Here come Jeggings!
Jeggings? Leggings made from denim and Lycra are a bright spot in the apparel industry this holiday. At department stores, jeggings are ranked as a top 10 trend in its women's and juniors clothing departments. Demand has doubled over the past year. Levi's has racked up such success with jeggings that the company is expanding the line this spring to zippered and acid-washed.

What do you think of this new denim trend?
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**Pendulum Swinging From Trashy 12 to Sweet 16?**
Billions of dollars are on the line in the fashion industry which targets the 8-to-12 set known as tweens. But it's a line increasingly blurred between cute and hot, adorable and sexual. In addition to spending $30 billion of their own money, American tweens hold sway over another $150 billion spent by their parents each year. It was just about a decade ago that the marketing and advertising industries popularized the phrase "tween" to sell 8- to 12-year-olds everything from entertainment to clothing.Check out the video for more info. === Do you think today's teens and tweens dress to provocatively? Why do you think they want to look older? Dress older? And more importantly, do you think the sexualization of tweens/teens can be harmful? === [|Join the discussion]

SteamPunk: A New Look with an Old Twist
iPhones encased in burnished brass. Unlikely fusions of current and neo-Edwardian fashions and sci-fi gadgets: This vision of steampunk, a subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world, is one that embraces music, film, design and now fashion. More on Steampunk from MTV

This fall's fashion runways prove the heavy influence Steampunk has had on current culture, but will teens start dressing this way?
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Looking good could effect your grades?
According to men's fashion expert Andy Gilchrist, "Researchers have come up with some scientific evidence to support the fact that what you wear really does make a difference in how you influence the world around you."

"The guy in English that gets all the high grades, may not be smarter nor study harder than you, he may just know how to look smart to the teacher," according to Andy who runs AskAndyAboutClothes.com.

What do you think? Does "Looking" smart really help make you smart?
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Fashion Police : Girl Fashion Trends Too Provocative?
As tween girls start to look toward new fashion influences, parents may resist. Naturally, parents don't want their tweens dressing provocatively. Neither do schools. But many of the items on store racks don't come close to meeting dress codes, so shopping for 8- to 13-year-olds can be challenging.Developmentally, they are at a turning point, looking to peers and celebrity taste makers, instead of parents, for what to wear.

Style choices are either too old for the girls section and often too young for an older sister's hand-me-downs. Preteens are targets for a $43 billion tween fashion industry that crafts child versions of most everything women are wearing, right down to this fall's leopard minis and skintight jeggings (denim leggings).

Ladies, how do you define your style? Is it ok to dress provocatively?How do you walk the fine line between fashion and too much?
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Exciting new fashion brand that empowers girls to give back
In addition to really cool clothes and accessories, the Bold Girlz website will spotlight girls all over the country with amazing stories in areas of music, sports and giving back in their community.They are looking for stories from girls in middle school and high school.

What stories could you share to help give back to the community?
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media type="custom" key="7098015" align="right"Hundreds show up in their underware to new Spanish Clothing Store, Desigual
A line of semi-nude youths on 34th Street started to form at 2 a.m.. Some were guys, some were girls, some looked great without clothes, some not so much. But they were all in line to get a free outfit from the Spanish clothing store, Desigual, which promised that the first 100 people to show up at its new store wearing only underwear would get a free outfit to cover themselves up -- one top and one bottom.

Would you show up in your underware for free clothes? And do you think this kind of marketing works?
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How do you define your look?
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Trends - What is Yours?
Trends differ from place to place -

What trends do you see where you live? What do you think will be the next big trend?
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