I'd like to add to your piece, Mona, that how young women in particular are dressing has more to do with their longing to belong to the “In Crowd." They are barely self-aware enough to know how they may appear to men. The hot new dresses may be skimpy, or revealing, the young girl thinks she belongs. I know this first hand, and it had dire results for me as a 15 year old taken to a party where I should not have been.