Or this an over-sexualised image advertising a girls top in the 6+ range?

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DD is taller than average at age 5 and wears 6/7 clothes sometimes 8 - I know the age group for this particular range includes teens but even so I just feel that this image is just a little too much. AIBU?

Cant see anything wrong with it.. it is a teenage girl, who looks like a teenaged girl..

I dunno

I don't like the pose in a teenage girl, either

It's not wholesome
Which is what they should be aiming at given age range & fact they're M&S
This isn't Jane Norman we're talking about

I think it's fine.

The garment looks like something an early teen might wear to a party - and the pose looks like a teen being moody.

I think in this range they have to Market at the DC as much as the parents - so it's not realistic for every picture to be a 7 year old frolicking with a puppy dog.

I think she's just trying too hard to look like a 'cool' model

Jane Norman went down the pan

thankfully

And it is a teenage girl trying to be provocative or sultry or moody or to look 'evening'.

Agree with OP. mouth open, eyes half closed, she's fingering the shoulder strap, it looks a bit porny to me.

x-posts with Worra. Yes, it's trying too hard, and I don't think that's appropriate really

AF - I know Jane Norman went down the pan, but I couldn't think of any other brand as well known for being, well, tarty

I'm not keen on that M&S picture. Would prefer a smiley, happy pose. It is a bit reminiscent of, as another poster said, the kind of sulky/sultry pose you'd expect from Kate Moss or someone like that. That kind of pose is irritating generally - and that's when it's adult models. On a child - even a teenager - as long as they are modelling clothes that aren't for adults I'd prefer to see a less cynical-fashion-world "we're so jaded" image.

I woudn't dress my 5yo in that

and I wouldn't be happy for my 14yo to pose in that way

so epic fail, all ways really, for me

and it would actually stop me from buying it

Just looked at it again.

You know, if she didn't have her hand on her shoulder, I think it would just look a bit 'mardy teen'. I think that's where the overkill is.

Yes, that's it, it's the hand.

The pose is too sexual for a teen, she's got this "come hither" look...

As for the bikini for babies: That is pretty fucked up! the pattern, the colour, the fact that it's got a bikini top to cover - what? - non-existent breasts, thus drawing attention to them....

Yes, I was actually disgusted by that bikini. I wouldn't dress my 4 year old in one, let alone a 6 month old.

I think it's just a bit of a rubbish photograph.

The top is what I would expect a teenager to wear but I would never buy it for my 5 year old (also in 6/7 clothes) as I think it's far too grown up for that age group.

I don't like what I consider to be grown up clothes on young children so that bothers me more than a sulky looking teenager. I don't see anything sexual about her at all, she's just a kid.

No nothing sexualised at all. It's just a sparkly sequinned top. So yes OP you are totally being unreasonable, among other things.

OP I think the top is fine. It's a sparkly top.

I think her facial expression is rather suggestive. And rather reminiscent of Bridget Bardot. She's quite a young teen. I agree, it's not a 'wholesome' look.

My dd is also very tall and we found it hard to find dresses etc when she moved into the ranges that included teenagers at around about aged 7 because the clothes were a)not very nice and b)inappropriate. Now she is 11 I think she would consider gold sparkly tops as something she has grown out of. I would be extremely worried if she posed like that though because the pose and expression is adult in a passive/used/porn type way that I dislike enough when it's done by an adult, let alone a child.

I don't like it. I don't really like the model's pose either; it's a bit pouty and old for her; rather Kate Moss!

Looks more stroppy than sexy to me.

YANBU what is suitable for a 15/16 year old teenager is not necessarily suitable for a 6-7 year old child, which is what the age range of this top is.