Age does matter...and if someone is a teenager or in early 20s fashion (especially clothes) is a big deal and it is more than likely that his/her dress (or how and what he/she wears) will likely attract some wanted (or unwanted) attention from other people.  

I dont believe it will cause extensive degratdation to any specific culture. Almost every people who might dress provocatively or have extensive taste for outragious fashion will eventually grow out of it as they grow older unless you are Madonna ("who still dresses like an old hooker"- as mentioned by Saron Osbourne [ Ozzy Osbourne's wife]) or Mick Jagger  (who still thinks he can get a bunch of groupies from his hay days of 60s and 70s) if he dresses in outragious ways.

Believe me, 95 percent of people will grow out of it...well...the rest of the 5 percent ...that's too small a number to overwhelm rest of the world.

Key word here is dont panic...