Maybe there are more generalizations than necessary. We are all different and that is a good thing. The media may influence what we think of ourselves and what we look like. Guys take steroids, starve themselves, and overwork their bodies.
Girls turn anorexic or bulimic to look like models, actors, and other people in the media.
The media affects the ways teens adorn themselves in bad and good ways. No matter how good you look there will always be someone to stereotype or judge you because you have different tastes. Fashionable History 40s fashion from Seventeen magazine, a part of the media. Advertising in fashion is not new. It's the message and medium that have transformed over time.