To think that 'cartwheel' shorts for girls are unnecessary!?

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So, GAP are selling cartwheel shorts for girls.
www.gap.co.uk/browse/product.do?cid=1075544&vid=1&pid=000452255005
Since when has it become inappropriate for a girl to do a cartwheel without wearing said modesty shorts?!

How very weird to think the sight of a small child's underwear is rude. You deserve to be offended if you think that way.

On the fence with this one. Whilst I don't think a 6 year old flashing their knickers briefly is wrong/bad I do still think it's good manners to cover your under garments. I'm forever telling my boys to pull up their trousers as I don't want them flashing their pants either. My daughter enjoys gymnastics and can do a handstand/splits thing. She does it in a leotard and that's fine as it's what it's intended for, but I'd want her to cover her knickers. God I'm such a prude aren't I?!

I think that's pretty much it freak

The choice.

Schools and parents should not be making anyone wear them.

Any comments from kids re underwear should be dealt with.

Kids should he allowed to wear whatever they are comfortable in without being used to make some kind of point/statement. Sometimes by trying to not make a big deal out of things we turn it into a big deal.

I don't give a shit if people see my underwear. However as someone who hates wearing dresses/skirts you can bet our life I've got leggings or shorts on underneath.

You can also bet your life on the fact that if I have to wear a shirt or uniform t shirt or smart top, I've bloody well got a vest top on underneath and the second I'm out of there the top layer is off.

It's just how I'm comfortable. And I don't give a shit what others think. It's not for them. It's not some statement. It is just how I'm comfortable and I hate certain types of clothes

DD is similar. Carpets are itchy certain materials are itchy and she likes to wear shirts under her skirts as it makes it easier to hand stand or run about or keep her a little warmer or stop carpets from itching her ( and you can feel stuff through the skirt) and as she can't wear leggings to school or tights it's the next best thing.

If I refused shed just go and put her pe shorts on so....

I got round this by buying boxer briefs (girls ones) for my DD and that way if anything 'flashes' nothing can be seen as it covers her entirely.

You get wee cycling shorts for a pound in black or navy and these are perfect to wear under skirts.
Dd (7) chooses to wear a skirt as part of her school uniform. She also likes to be upside down in cartwheels/handstand/backflip type manoeuvres most of the playtime... so she likes these shorts.
It is her choice to not want to flash her pants. Nothing wrong with that at all.

We had to wear knickers in the school colours (brown).

I think there must be massive regional variations in this or something. DD is 10 and all her friends bar one or two wear vests rather than crop tops and nobody wears shorts for cartwheels etc. Some wear shorts/culottes alone or trousers but nobody wears shorts with dresses or skirts.

Well I come from a country that it's inappropriate and rude for girls and boys show (don't bother showing) their underwear. I think both boys and girls should have some manners.

My daughter wears shorts under her skirt and she's fine with that.

And btw where I grow up girls and boys had the same uniform for school: trousers and shirt. Same for PE: shorts and tshirt.
so I find funny boys running around comfortably in their shorts and girls flashing her knickers. But I'm not "vagina patrol" and I don't care if a girl is wearing panties or nothing under her skirt.

I might get my DD some of these, she loves doing cartwheels but won't at school in case people see her knickers. She's nearly 7

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The asda ones are ok and cheaper. Dd says they are really comfy. Think they are a 2 pack too.

Having said that I'm looking at the gapfit woven shorts fir dd. They look like what she wants fir gymnastics she's not keen on leotards any more.

Showing your knickers was never considered proper or ladylike in British culture. Girls were just encouraged to stop getting themselves in those situations back in the 'good ole days'. At least nowadays shops care enough to make a fix to the problem.

Showing your knickers was never considered proper or ladylike in British culture.
Thank you for clarifying that Astoria7974. I don't understand why are so many people around criticising those shorts

Well I come from a country that it's inappropriate and rude for girls and boys show (don't bother showing) their underwear. I think both boys and girls should have some manners.

I think you should have the manners not to impose your warped views of decency on small children. Unspeakably rude of you.

At least nowadays shops care enough to make a fix to the problem.

I very much doubt shops care at all. They see a profit in playing on parents insecurities. Don't fool yourself into thinking shops do anything for anything other than profit.

I suppose they're only thinking of the children when they make girl toy pianos in pink and boy ones in blue. All those poor bous whose penises would fall off, and girls who would grow up into butch lesbians.

The issue isn't the knickers, it's the flash of vulva when they are are cartwheeling or sitting cross-legged on the carpet.

Just put a burka on them. And tell them not to cartwheel anyway, it's not modest. FFS.

God I'm glad I grew up before all this crap started.

What kind of knickers are they are wearing if they are exposing their genitals when they are sitting cross-legged?

As dd2 said when girls started wearing them at school, 'What a wierd idea, why not just wear knickers?'

Showing your knickers was never considered proper or ladylike in British culture. Girls were just encouraged to stop getting themselves in those situations back in the 'good ole days'. At least nowadays shops care enough to make a fix to the problem.

Oh my god. Are you serious?!

We are talking about children under 5. They do not have to be 'ladylike'.

What 'good ole days'? I'm 43, nobody gave a flying toss about little girls flashing while they did cartwheels when I was little.

As for the thing about the shops...how is anybody that naive.

Apologies for the daily fail article, but this post reminded me of this story

www.google.co.uk/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4180686/amp/Teacher-arrested-cartwheeling-students.html?client=safari

My daughter point blank refuses to wear any skirts as she loves doing gymnastics, she won't even wear shorts under them. I don't see these as any different to those frilly knickers you get to cover nappies if I'm being honest.

Cheap supermarket multipack ones eddie. Also depends on your daughter's invididual build of course. Just like different adult women get on better with different shaped pants.

Personally, I buy www.marksandspencer.com/3-pack-santoni-seamfree-shorts-6-16-years-/p/p22439815?image=SD_04_T71_4279_Y0_X_EC_0&color=BLACK&prevPage=plp#zoomed-images these]] sort of thing for full "seat" coverage. No one needs or wants to see arse cheek.

Mine don't bother with shorts over the top.

Those are what dds have.

Dd1 still it's shorts on over and she had leggings on over those for sports activities after school

Dd2 just uses those pants as per shorts of she forgets to put her pe shorts on