LOS ANGELES – Two decades ago, adolescent stars and boyhood idols still looked and dressed appealing abundant like accustomed kids. They had braces, coiled hair, freckles that weren’t airbrushed over, and clothes they bought at the mall.
“Full House” brilliant Candace Cameron-Bure, now 37, afresh acquaint a annual from the old canicule to her Instagram account, featuring her adolescent cocky alongside co-star Andrea Garber (Kimmy Gibbler), “Family Matters” brilliant Jaleel White, and Jeremy Miller of “Growing Pains” fame.
“Young Hollywood 1990’s. No stylist or aerial heels. Instead: baggie clothes, pimples & advantageous weight,” she wrote alongside it.
80s pop brilliant Debbie Gibson agrees.
“I didn’t put on a brace of heels until I was 21. And that was for a Matthew Rolston-directed video. These days, the couture angel and sexier vibe happens way earlier. I had a way added attainable and affordable style,” Gibson told FOX411's Pop Tarts column. “They (current adolescent stars) affliction way added now about not actuality appearance policed than I did. In fact, I still don’t!”
A quick attending at contempo red carpets seems to buck Gibson out.
AnnaSophia Robb, 19, channeled a attending far above her years in a connected abbreviate dress at the New York premiere of “Way, Way Back” a few weeks ago, while her 18-year-old co-star, Zoe Levin, too looked far above her years in a little atramentous ensemble and red lipstick.
Teen magazines abide that theme.
Seventeen magazine, aimed at girls 12 to 19, about consistently shows flawless-skinned, pimple-free, ceramics teeth able photographs on the brand of Victoria Justice, and Nina Dobrev on its covers, with its ascendant awning babe – Nickelodeon awareness Ariana Grande – akin an bright doll. Her “purse raid” shows she keeps cher artist Chanel lipgloss on-hand too. This presents a aciculate adverse to 1978’s simple plain-faced Brooke Shields cover, or Alicia Silverstone in 1995 or alike a somewhat awkward Kelly Clarkson in 2002.
Over at Boyhood Vogue, the accepted Emma Watson advance is about as high-fashion as its ancestor publication.
Gibson told us back she co-hosted the American Music Awards at age 19 in 1989, she bought her own dress from a bounded bazaar in her built-in Long Island, New York partly because she capital to attending like a approved babe with admission to adorned frocks, and partly because she absolutely had no abstraction what “Dolce & Gabbana” alike meant.
It’s a far cry from the artist dress activity that reigns absolute today. At aftermost year’s ceremony, boyhood admired Taylor Swift did her affair in a nude sparkly Zuhair Murad dress, while “Pretty Little Liars” awareness stepped out in a atramentous glassy Elizabeth and James ensemble. At the contempo Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, Belle Thorne autonomous for a Bec & Bridge cardinal with blush Alice Olivia pumps while Victoria Justice wore a artist Pia Pauro dress.
According to Emmy-winning stylist David Zyla, the better about-face from no-name to big-name appearance happened about bristles years ago back it was apparent how affecting the amid bazaar was, and how impactful they were on what their parents purchased.
“Every business in every class of the apple took note. This of advance included the business of fashion. Sensing amazing befalling for artefact exposure, these adolescent stars were now offered actual adult-style accouterment and the aftereffect was a assembly of a actual altered angel from what we accepted a adolescent above-mentioned to this aeon to attending like,” he explained.
When Roger Neal aboriginal started in the ball industry as a arranger and angel adviser to a ambit of adolescent stars, he said they did absolutely act and dress their age.
“Today boyhood stars accept developed up quickly, every career move is calculated, and it absolutely does not let the boyhood aloof be a teen,” he noted. “There is no allowance for error.”
According to Gibson, the acutely “perfect” acumen and unattainable angel we see in adolescent stars today can accept some abrogating ramifications for their fans.
“What kid in Middle America has a trainer and a stylist?! Kids charge role models who advise them how to be healthy,” she said. “Young stars accept so abundant power.”
Hollie McKay has been a FoxNews.com agents anchorman back 2007. She has appear abundantly from the Middle East on the acceleration and abatement of agitator groups such as ISIS in Iraq. Follow her on cheep at @holliesmckay
