Princess

It's ironic. Homeschool girls are mocked and ridiculed for wearing ankle-length skirts, and if you wear one, you darn well better have the body and style to pull it off. Yet, most if not all Disney princesses wear long skirts and are held up as the epitome of beauty. Could be just a cultural thing, Beauty would look odd in a miniskirt, and Pocohantas certainly doesn't wear a long skirt, but I wonder if, culturally, we are more traditional than we like to admit. In older times, little girl's wore short skirts and wore their hair long, and when they became women they wore long skirts and pinned their hair up. Have we perhaps switched the roles? Little girls may idolize long skirts but women bear the right to take off the inches? And the long skirts of the Disney princess must be cast aside along with all other childish things, like, perhaps, love of romance, idealism, and a black and white view of the world, also traits that characterize the homeschooled girl and the Disney princess?