Ok Folks! Time to Be Grown-ups!! Parents and Children's Clothing...

08.26.03 | mlmr

[mlmr]

Every few days or so on FreeRepublic, those of us who follow the Common Culture and its focus on sexuality start complaining about the clothing in the local stores that is available to children. Mothers and fathers here complain about the trashy, sexualized clothing that little girls are sold. They complain that there are no others choices.

Well, I don't know about you folks but I COMPLAIN. To management. Each time I cannot find modest, decent clothes. It takes at most, five minutes. Each time I shop. And I expect I will get results. For each person who complains...mangement extrapolates that there are dozens of customers who do not say anything and feel the same way.

I want to encourage all parents to find the manager and complain about the things sold for children in the stores, especially the chains, that you don't like. Inappropriate and sexualized items. Emails help too.

Bsck a few years ago, when I was complaining about the movie choices for children at my local theatre, I was pulled aside by the manager and told that many parents were complaining and the chain was trying to find decent movies for children. I notice that there has been a broader selection of childrens films recently. I think there is untapped power in complaining to the right people.

When you complain, do it kindly and politely. Tell them what you do not like and what you are expecting to buy instead. Following it up with an email drives the point home. IF you want to change the culture...if you want to take it back...you need to open your mouths and ask for what you want.

For this is really for the children, and our culture, and our future.

[Tax-chick]

Not while I was watching, but it could be people were inhibited by my presence, in my ankle length dress and head scarf :-). (Not Moslem - my husband asked me to grow my hair longer, and it looks too awful to show in public.)

[Corin Stormhands]

You mean the ones that say, "Look at my butt - it's the most interesting thing about me!"?

I was thinking about the ones that say "Cheer." But I heard Glenn Beck the other day talking about a pair he had seen that said "Juicy."

[sweet_diane]

"Parents have a choice. They can let their underage daughter go out of the house looking like a two dollar whore or they can pay attention to their kids and actually put some effort into raising them."

Exactly. I drop one daughter off at the high school and one at middle school everyday. I see these kids getting out of mom or dads car looking like floozies and that's with a uniform code in place! Dress codes are selectively enforced, which drives my kids crazy cause they know right is right and wrong is wrong (no uniform violations here!.)

I really bothers me how parents allow they daughters to go to school in super low rise pants and belly shirts...like they are putting them on the auction block or something.

[Tax-chick]

I was thinking about the ones that say "Cheer."

I think it's a little presumptuous to order men to cheer your rear ... they might want to boo or hiss, or yell, "Put some clothes on already!"

[Constitution Day]

Well, it's one of my wife's friends, and although she agrees with me, she politely thanked them.
Those shorts are a dustrag now.

The weather at Nags Head was not too bad... a little overcast, and it rained once or twice.
The worst thing was the COLD ocean temperature! When we arrived, it was around 58 degrees. By the time we left, it was maybe 8-10 degrees warmer.

I'm not complaining, though.
There is no such thing as a bad day at the beach, and we had an excellent time... thanks for asking!

[Alouette]

And there are few things scarier than a 40 something, over-weight bleach blond "Mom" with a navel ring and some tats who tries to cram herself into a halter top and a pair of low-rise jeans.....

The 60 something "Grandma" in a matching outfit....

[najida]

And there are few things scarier than a 40 something, over-weight bleach blond "Mom" with a navel ring and some tats who tries to cram herself into a halter top and a pair of low-rise jeans.....

The 60 something "Grandma" in a matching outfit....

You guys saw them too!

[mtbrandon49]

The girls stuff is to short and the boys stuff is to long and baggy. I went with my wife school shopping for my son. She made him try on everything. He tried about 20 different pairs of shorts to narrow it down to a few pair for school. Most of the shorts came below his knee. Not a little but a lot. Just as well to have gotten jeans.

[Jhensy]

Then there's revolting teen idol Christina Aguilera, who wore shorts that said "Dirty" across the behind.

It gave the impression that she had a wiping problem.

[CJ Wolf]

hey that sounds like my mother-in-law. She is nuts.

[tiamat]

lonestar wrote: There was an article in the Saturday paper about teens and where they shop. The latest fad in this part of Texas is Goodwill. High school and college kids are buying old jeans and t-shirts at good will. They aren't buying the extra large, baggy jeans but jeans that fit. The biggest fad is old t-shirts that are from fast-food workers. The kid in the picture was wearing an old "Der Weinerschnitzel" t-shirt.

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I'd not have a problem.

Besides, how many old Taco Bell T's could you get for 10 bucks! LOL!

tia

[sweet_diane]

"The latest fad in this part of Texas is Goodwill. High school and college kids are buying old jeans and t-shirts at good will."

My girls and I go to Goodwill about once a month and go thru all the 'uniform' shirts and tee shirts. My oldest found one for her favor local restaurants "The Biscuit King...Home of the Ugly Biscuit" and wears it often. Her style is "straight edge punk" (I learning what that means lol), yet her school is full of belly shirts and the like.

My girls say the thrashy (or Brittney) look is soooooo over.

[tiamat]

Alouette wrote:

The 60 something "Grandma" in a matching outfit....

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Oh EEeeewwwwww!

I've seen this pair in bars, often "cruising" together. And then they wonder why 15 year old Chantelle gets prgnant!

[yoe]

There are still 'seamstresses' out there who make clothes, find one and make good use of her/him and tell your friends who want more modest clothes for their children.

Dressing your child like a hooker certainly prepares them for the future....(sarcasm off). More dumbing down of the American culture through MTV and dumb parents who will latch onto any Fad thinking it will make their child more popular. Good taste and good manners are a huge part of parenting.

[Tax-chick]

You'd want to get a laundry marker and write WASH!

[tiamat]

najida wrote:

You guys saw them too!

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Yep. And I haven't been the same since! LOL!

Of course, maybe I am just prejudiced.

After all, "Mom" and "Gran" are SO close.... sharing the same clothes, the same lighter, picking up the same guys......a tribute to family is what this is really....

;-)

I hope my daughter and I still do things together when she's grown!

Tia

[mewzilla]

Did anyone just catch the ABC News radio spot at the top of the hour? They had a brief story on this subject, about a school enacting a new dress code, and viloators who come to school will be given a t-shirt that says Tomorrow I will dress fior success. The storty concluded witha sound bite from a giggling teen-ager who had a problem with the T-shirt, saying that students only wanted to show off a bit of belly, to show off their cute bods. Sigh.

[Maelstrom]

That's right...so a simple complaint will indicate a very real market force demanding clothing for children that is less indecent than the current choices.

[najida]

...saying that students only wanted to show off a bit of belly, to show off their cute bods. Sigh.

Then they will just have to wait until the weekend to 'show off' now won't they ;)