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Posted on 04/20/2011 4:29:15 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife
I get it, Rihanna's really popular. But that's a pretty weak reason for someone to dress their little girl like her.
I don't care how popular Lil' Wayne is, my son knows I would break both of his legs long before I would allow him to walk out of the house with his pants falling off his butt. Such a stance doesn't always makes me popular -- and the house does get tense from time to time -- but I'm his father, not his friend.
Friends bow to peer pressure. Parents say, "No, and that's the end of it."
The way I see it, my son can go to therapy later if my strict rules have scarred him. But I have peace knowing he'll be able to afford therapy as an adult because I didn't allow him to wear or do whatever he wanted as a kid.
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She is actually a very attractive woman, yet chooses to dress like that. Not flattering and lloks like a tramp.
I don’t get it.
Ain’t attractive at all.
Jax and I pretty much wear the same size, except for hips, and length - I’m broader abeam and still taller :)
We do wear the same size tops and so when I can’t find one of mine I head for her room and generally find what I’m looking for. She hasn’t grown into my canal boats yet, but I figure by the time September rolls around we’ll be wearing the same size shoes as well.
The outfit she will be wearing for the All County Chorus Concert next week are all my clothes, and she is wearing one of my dresses for the Spring Formal next month. I give it another year and I will be getting her hand-me-downs !!
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So are their pedophile promoting ads.
Anoreth used to wear my clothes, and I’m wearing some things now that she left behind, but Elen is too short-waisted right now for most of my clothes. She’s at the “filled-out but not full-height” stage. If she grows into the feet, she might be 5’8”, and I’m under 5’4”.
Her new dress is floaty, quite girly, while mine is “older.” She can wear mine if she wants to, but I’d look silly in hers!
This trend has surely grown quickly. My daughter is now 29 and the worst I had to deal with was the ‘grunge’ look, t-shirt or turtle neck with flannel men’s overshirt, and jeans.
Given my preference they’d all wear skirts/dresses (better yet, uniforms!) to school and jeans for play time after school. But I noticed, even back ‘then,’ that by 2nd grade the girls who were totally into dresses in 1st grade would go to wearing pants/jeans because of PE and not wanting their little panties to show when they would do gymnastics activities. I guess now by 13 they want those panties showing. It’s rather sad.
Do you think the choices children make regarding their clothing is influence by the clique culture found in our prison-like schools? ()
Personally, I had **no** conflicts with how my homeschooled girls and son dressed. I can not remember a single time when I had to correct them concerning their clothing choices. They bought nearly all of their day to day clothing from the local Goodwill. The girls sewed their own Sunday things, and my son wore a white shirt tie, sweater, and dark dress pants to church.
Perfect description of Jax as well. It will not surprise me if the child closes in on 6'. And this is the child I used to call a shrimp.........
Shopping around here remains, as always, very limited. It's a 50 mile trek to the nearest "city" with any real choices, so I check into the Hospice thrift store frequently to see what they have "new."
Nearly **all** slacks! They are almost impossible to find. I have to sew mine.
Penney’s has some decent slacks in the old-lady section, including petites, and Dress Barn had slacks and capris that were in good taste, with a selection of matching tops.
I hear Old Navy sells “normal” jeans, but I haven’t looked. I have one pair of jeans, which I wear about once a year when I’m breaking ground in the yard.
I don’t wear women’s slacks at all and really never have. I wear men’s jeans and/or khakis. Even back in the late 70s when I was in HS and our uniform was changed to allow us to wear slacks I had a tough time finding ladies/women’s slacks to fit properly.
Old Navy’s Sweetheart cut is sold as a regular cut, but they are still lower rise. None of their pants fit well. I’ve tried up to three sizes larger than I wear and they are just too low and too big. Levi’s has their 550 and 545 styles which cover everything nicely and wear forever.
Thanks, I didn’t know that; just repeating a FReeper-report from another thread on this topic.
What little child needs to have this low-cut stuff? This is what we're up against.
The last time I could get my hips into men’s pants was 1980 ;-).
LOL!!! Then I promise I won’t tell you about the pair of men’s jeans I bought in 1976 that still fit me..........
I swear, clothes for women in their 20s and 30s are no longer cut for a figure that’s borne and nursed babies. I can’t find tops that go over the chest and still cover the belly, can’t find pants that fit round the hips without gaping at the waist, and forget about shirts with button fronts. It’s like fashion designers expect pregnancy to happen once, at age 39, somewhere between your pilates session and lipo appointment....
wow, this ran on CNN?
I have a nice pair of black Navy uniform pumps from 1986 that I still wear. Elen wore them last Sunday, but they were a little too small ... sigh.
And she was badly beaten up, do people who look at her as a role model forget about that?
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