Posted on 09/03/2004 10:42:54 AM PDT by presidio9
Shelby Raley spent last weekend sketching on a notepad, filling it with her ideas of what girls her age should wear. She's 9, a fourth-grader at North Elementary in Fair Oaks, and she knows she doesn't belong in skintight T-shirts with "I Flirt" and "Take Me Home" printed in big letters across the chest.
Little girls always want to be big girls, at least until the age of 40, when they'd like to start looking younger again. The fashion industry knows this, which is why a flood of highly age-inappropriate clothes are being marketed for kids.
Porn star chic, let's call it.
And so our little girls have been in danger of disappearing, replaced by a creepy horde of underage Britney and Lil' Kim wannabes wearing hip-huggers, high-heeled sandals and teensy tops adorned with sequined cherries.
"I've seen that shirt," says Shelby's mother, Andrea Raley. "It's marketed for little girls who aren't even aware what the cherries on the shirt are supposed to mean."
Let's not tell them yet. They're not supposed to know when they're only 8 or 9.
When they were shopping for back-to-school clothes recently, Raley and her daughter ran across pink thong underwear in her daughter's size at a Ross store not far from their Fair Oaks home. Across the triangular front panel appeared the words "I Tease Boys."
This, for a 9-year-old.
It's a good guess that left unchecked, the fashion industry would gladly transform all our little girls into tarty young replicas of Jodie Foster in "Taxi Driver."
"Exactly," says Raley. "As a society, we're encouraging our little girls to dress like sluts and tramps."
Hookers, every little girl's role model. It's a pedophile's dream.
"That's where I'm going with it," says Raley. "We're sexualizing these girls. There's no doubt about it."
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"Little girls always want to be big girls, at least until the age of 40, when they'd like to start looking younger again"
Try 25.
One of the many reasons I hate the movie "pretty woman"
My daughter(10) buys boys clothes.
Where. Are. The. Parents?
They be called "Ho clothes."
8 year-olds dressing like streetwalkers ping
This is a serious problem. I have two little girls and my wife and I agree, we are keeping them innocent little girls for as long as possible.
This whole trend is encouraging the predators is society to grow even bolder, where we now are lapsing into women exploiting young boys for sexual relationships.
This not only goes with fashion but also plastic surgery. Younger and younger women (really girls) are getting breast implants. Just surf the channels, these shows showing these procedures being performed to these girls are out there.
www.hannahanderson.com....nice old fashioned, all cotton clothes for girls, boys and babies.
The Decline and Fall of American Civilization continues...
Some of my daughter's friends do as well. They say they are more comfortable and they aren't revealing.
It's impossible to buy decent clothes for girls in stores anymore. My daughter is 13 and we both dread shopping for school because she hates the current fashions as much as I do. She says she doesn't care if her clothes are "stylish" or not because she doesn't want to look like a tramp.
My daughter still finds some decent clothes because we make her find them. It's not easy.
I was walking around a county fair the other month and was just amazed at what the girls were showing. And one of them who was showing the most (and had the most to show) was with her boyfriend and what I'm pretty sure was her dad. Astounding.
Getting so you HAVE to go mail order even for basics like t-shirts and jeans anymore. Land's End, L.L. Bean, Eddie Bauer...those sort of places still have plain old normal clothing - almost nowhere else does! They're all too short, too tight, or have stoopid messages printed all over them.
Sadly, often they are the ones buying them. I volunteer with a second grade group and every year there are a couple and lately that number seems to be rising who dress like slutty dressing teens, and the slutty dressing teens are emulating rock/pop stars and actresses. But really just look like streetwalkers. The parents often try to justify by wanting their girls to 'fit in' or saying the clothes are 'harmless', it's just a skirt, shirt, whatever. At some stores, the only selections are ... not appropriate. Even 'regular' or bargain stores like Walmart or Target often carry these more than others. Sad and true.
Your daughters are adorable!
Thank you.
From what I've seen the children's fashion industry (or at least the little girls designers) are full of pedophiles. I can't walk into a standard chain anymore without finding the little girls department full of jr. hooker clothes.. can anyone give me a suggestion where to shop? I'm completely baffled and my little one is growing like a weed!
I was in JC Penneys the other day and I passed the wall full of "training bras" for little girls (size 2 to 6x). I kid you not, there were several padded bras on that wall. Made me want to puke.
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