The battle over what clothing is and is not acceptable for teenage girls often begins early in adolescence, with parents favoring modesty and girls favoring more adult dress. Parents should be aware the main drive to dress in a certain seems to come from the need to conform to peer groups and not to attract sexual behavior.
Darcy Santor's article "Measuring Peer Pressure, Popularity, and Conformity in Adolescent Boys and Girls: Predicting School Performance, Sexual Attitudes, and Substance Abuse" in the 2004 Journal of Youth and Adolescence, finds that although teenage girls often feel pressure to dress in more revealing fashions, the drive is not sexuality.
This work continues to make the need for parents to be aware of teenagers peer groups of paramount importance. The values of a teen's friends will be reflected in the teen's behavior, and this appears to include dressing and fashion.
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