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To ask why my DD doesn't have as much of a choice?

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drspouse · 16/02/2025 22:35

DD is 10 and fairly tiny but it's getting to the point I want to talk to her about crop tops.

Looked up to see where we can get some. She wears white polos and I know from teaching girls with white school shirts that you want skin tone bras and crop tops. Maybe a tiny bit lighter but not white if you have brown skin.

Except I can only find about two shops that do crop tops for brown skin. And DD has brown skin (she's mixed ethnicity - M & S is one of the shops and their "light brown" looks about right).

I've looked at about 10 shops and supermarkets, the only other one is Asda with a "dark tan".

I was looking at some census data for work and 25% of under 10s are non white British. Granted, some of them will be Irish/other European and pale as ghosts but surely preteen clothing for girls with brown skin is a pretty big market? DD's class is about what I'd expect from the national data - 15 girls out of 30 - 4-5 not white.

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drspouse · 16/02/2025 22:41

You can see white bras through a white shirt much more if your skin is not white than if it is. I taught secondary school in Africa. Believe me.

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Motomum23 · 16/02/2025 22:38

Because white underwear is the norm.
It's not 'white skin' coloured - it's white white and that has always been the way for low cost underwear. You are meant to not see it through a white shirt not match the colour of your skin tone.

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