To not understand why I can't buy my daughter underwear in Asda?

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She's nearly 12, and does indeed need a bra, Asda have stopped selling them (so they informed me) because of the hoohaa about them at the end of last year.

I think girls should be girls, I really do and thongs for children are objectionable, as are leopard print bras or lots of other things.

But in what way is it useful for a child with enough breasts to warrant a bra to just not be able to buy one?

She feels physically and emotionally more comfortable wearing a bra...with one on she can carry on playing without being uncomfortable or feeling uncomfortable.

How is just getting rid of bras under a 32 back useful?

I bought my dd some 30a bras from marks and then New Look.

I know I can get them from marks, new look or primark - but I was in Asda and they used to sell them...

It's more that I think getting rid of the smaller back sizes is spectularly missing the point, either that or I am? And I don't know which, lol

We often get our bras from Matalan, stocked up today! Like MollyBroom, have also had some from New Look

I think most shops think age= size when it comes to bra fittings. Obviously they are wrong. I am 23 years old ffs and in the same position as your 12 year old because I don't have 'grown-up' size boobs apparently....

On a more helpful note..M&S do a range called Angel for teenagers that I think go down to 28 back. New Look sizes are also small. La Senza don't go go down to a size that small but their sizes come up smaller than average, so 32 in La Senza is more like 30 anywhere else IYSWIM.

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Yes Littlepurpleprincess, I used to be and Avon lady and one of my customers couldn't get a bra from Avon as they don't go down to her size

Same issue here. I used to wear kids bras as i was a 28C...i cant find many these days. Its silly.

Try finding a 28E - apparently "no-one is that size" according to one sales assistant. Thankfully I was there to run interference for DD who was quite upset at being accused of being a freak.
Btw Debenhams Gorgeous range have several bras in a 28 which look quite nice for a teenager

There must be plenty women in the world who are as small as a 12yo.. I havent grown height wise since I was 12. So did you look in the adult section?

Debenhams, M&S, John Lewis, many major department stores. Not sure why you have to buy from Asda to be honest.

Ishallwearmidnight......your poor DD. I am a 30G......can't find anything pretty anywhere. Always come out of Bravissimo with the same shit nude or black thing.

Someone, somewhere is missing a trick....pretty bras, larger cups, smaller backs....[pleads]

YANBU. Not helpful at all. I was a B cup at 11 and was very uncomfortable about it. I wouldn't have wanted to wear an adult style bra from M&S, there really is a market for appropriate bras for young girls. I remember getting mine from Tammy Girl, does that still exist? Last I knew it was in BHS. They had nice white cute ones, sort of a crop top but with the support of a bra. Hope Asda change their minds!

It's like shoes isn't it. DD was an H fitting - do any of the major manuf acturers make the pretty pinkstyles in the wide fittings. Of course not. DD was a 32B for her first bra (at 10 but we did find some really simple plain white cotton ones in Debenhams were just right.

That's what happens when these stupid 'campaigns' take off! Everyone jumps on the bandwagon and who suffers?

'Not sure why you have to buy from Asda to be honest.'

Well of course I don't have to, but I was there, picking up some bits and pieces and DD mentioned she could do with a couple of new ones - I looked in the bra section and couldn't find any, looked in the children's section...because I know I'd bought them in Asda for her before and couldn't find them, so I asked where the smaller size bras are as I could only find a 32 back size or bigger, to be told that they no longer stock them because people complained about them.

It just made me a bit because surely the point isn't that they shouldn't stock bras in that size, but that they should be selling age appropriate things? I mean I absolutely get that nobody wants a wonderbra in the children's section...but that's not the same as just getting rid of smaller sizes!

Tesco still sell them if that's any help.

That's ludicrous! I was a 30DD before I got pregnant and I am 31. Not just children who are below a 32.

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a lot of people like asda as it is not expensive, really silly that this silly campaign how now stopped this.

Asda having an uber-PC over-reaction, are they? How very silly. There's an eNORMous difference between selling age-appropriate clothes that are necessary in sizes for young teens and tweens and "sexed up" inappropriate clothing for the same age group.

Fools.

I don't often shop at Asda (simply because it's at the other end of town), but I can see the OPs pov: the message sent out is that young girls who have reached puberty early are somehow inappopriate and over-sexualised.

Not a nice message for the young girls in question.

Of course some shops simply don't sell a very wide range of clothes for economical reasons, but stopping small bras for puritan reasons following a campaign is a bit sickening; to me, it's yet another way of hinting that growing into a woman is a bad thing.

Well they might have got rid of the smaller bras but the hideous hot pink and black sequinned shite is still the order of the day on the clothing section. I almost cried in septber when I realised dd will no longer fit in the younger girls stuff and I turned to look at the older girls range.....

YABU to 'not understand' why you can't buy them from there. They told you. They no longer stock them.

So they got rid of the sensible white bras in small sizes but kept the logo'd shite clothes? Spectacularly missing the point.

Did you get that from Asda HQ or from a sales assistant? Cos I've been told all kinds of shite by people who've made their own minds up about various issues and forget they're wearing a uniform and what they say will be seen as the official line.

tbh, I think it's much more likely that unusual sizes don't sell in enough volume to make them a good use of space. I sympathise - I've been a DD since school and have had to buy boulder holders from M&S for £££, not the lovely frillies for £2 from the fashion stores, but that's because a 28DD isn't all that common.
Course, now I'm more a 36E and they're still ugly, but easily available

This is surely Asda's problem not the campaign's problem? No one has objected to bras for pubescent girls.

Sexy underwear for children should be out, sensible bras in smaller sizes should be in.

If Asda can't work out the difference then take your custom elsewhere.