Children at the Vermont State Fair, September 1941.
Not just toys, but clothing. You can more easily dress your toddler girl as a streetwalker than you can dress her as a little girl. The clothing thing drives me bannas. I end up buying at certain very expensive stores just because they have "real" little girl clothes. I've purchased a sewing machine also. I can sew things that are age appropriate and modest, even though its not really cost effective. Who would have thought it would cost more money to dress a 4-year-old like a 4-year-old???
Same here and try finding jeans with a waistline where it is supposed to be. Remember when the media criticized Judge Robert's children for being dressed like real children?
Children at the Vermont State Fair, September 1941.
We shop for clothes at a lot of 2nd-hand stores when it comes to clothing for our girls.
It's getting harder and harder to find jeans that aren't made skin-tight and/or hip-hugging. Sometimes, with our 5 year old, we have to buy her boys jeans, just so she has play clothes that are modest and appropriate.
My wife has been learning how to make dresses, she's been using the sewing machine more and more. It's indeed a blessing.
I remember the first time I saw preschool underwear for girls that were bikini it made me just plain sick. And I am talking about little girls and toddlers.