I'm just very glad that my daughter (rapidly approaching teenagerdom) is happy being 'weird, out of the loop and considered strange'... she has a good circle of friends who like her for who she is not what she looks like. If I thought she'd be happier in scanty clothes, I'd buy them for her. As it is, I am content that she is happy in baggy black things. She's already commented that she's "skinny" but not overly worried that she's fat. She knows, given the family she was born into, that she's likely to always be on the podgy side and she's OK with it.

That's one good thing about the 'folkie' world, where beer bellies are the norm - she's not pressurised into being a stick.

LTS