Not to buy my daughter a Jojo Bow

[Luckymummy22]

She keeps asking for one and they're hideous lol.
She's only 5 years old but got some money from a relative and now is going on about buying one.

She also wants a belly top- I've told her to ask her dad

They are horrible but I'd let her have one, my mum never allowed us to have anything "faddie" or fashionable. I don't see the problem with the crop top if it's not too cropped?

Wow. A 5 year old being refused a bloody hair accessory

Wee shame for her.

I dunno...I equate cropped tops with teenagers and vanity clothing so I think they look a bit odd on little girls.

I can't stand those bows either but I bet I asked for tacky as f stuff when I was a kid (hair mascara!!!) so I'd just suck it up and get on with it and,when she's older, let her look back at photos of herself and laugh, just like I do now

10yo dd is wearing a cropped top today. It's long sleeved, high neck and loose, not fitted. She's wearing it with jeans (and a bowler hat!) and I can't see anything sexualised about it. Even if I squint.

I'm not a fan of either but if my DDs wanted them, I don't see any harm in them having them.

People that think cropped tops on kids are somehow sexualised need to take a look at themselves.

YANBU. You don't have to say yes to everything, and at age 5 it is reasonable to retain some control over what children wear.

I've just had to ask DD(7) what a JoJo Bow is. She looked at me blankly and said "I don't know. But [friend] has a hair bow so big she keeps bumping into things and she can't see the whiteboard, is it one of those?" 😂

Oh my - keep thinking this says blow job when I see it

Yabu- it's meant to be summer, a crop top is perfect for this weather!

Also a JoJo Bow can be bought for a couple of quid, so if you've got the money I'd just let her. There's no harm and it's all very innoffensive

What is vanity clothing?

I always remember not being allowed something like this and that was 35 years ago. let her have it, please.

Aww, let her have a bow. JoJo bows are only £1.00, in Home Bargains !
I wouldn't be agreeing to a cropped top though. 🙄😄

Mine have jo jo bows and belly tops.they are children i see no harm in them having these things . I think the bows are nice and the belly tops mine have are tshirts that are croped.

If you think croptops are wrong because they show skin then i think that says more about you than anyone eles.

Why don't boys wear crop tops then if they're so practical for summer?

There's nothing sexy about little girls in crop tops, but they're part of a wider culture in which females seem to be conditioned from younger and younger ages to show as much skin as possible before leaving the house.

Underboob, sideboob, belly tops, Daisy Duke's cut off above the butt crease, see-through leggings.

Bored of seeing various bits of the intimate female anatomy whenever I step out my front door.

Bring back sensible clothing.

If you let your DD wear a large bow people might think you are common.
Oh the horror!

Its a bow. Childhood fancies are fleeting. All too soon she will be an adult agonising over what people will think of her for the way she dresses her kids.

Awww I think they're cute

DD has loads of them!

Belly tops for a 5 yo I think are a bit unnecessary though tbh

Lots of boys don't wear any tops in the summer. I grew up in the 70s and have lots of photos of us running around in the shortest of shorts (think those very attractive faux satin footballer ones) and bikini tops and our summer weather usually consists of less drizzle than usual.

YANBU

They are absolutely ridiculous and there seems to be competition as to who can wear the biggest or blingiest !

I'm fed up of watching girls fiddling with them during lessons - taking them in and out of their hair and worse, giving them to their friends to wear !
They are another thing to cause distraction when they should be paying attention.

I have bought my 4 year old DD a Jojo bow. However I would say no to a belly top (she hasn't asked luckily) as I think would make a small child look too grown up/sexualised.

Is let her have the jojo, the fad is on the wane anyway.
I was discouraged from experimenting with style and accessories as a child, and I'm now the mist boring and unadventurous dresser in the village. I'm trying to encourage DD to play around and find her own style. It makes me wince when she wears leopard print leggings and fluro socks, but it does no harm.
The belly top would be a no from me though. I figure that if I let her now, then how can I say no when she gets to tweens/teens when belly/crop tops are most definitely teetering on the edge of sexualisation?

What's with the hatred of JoJo bows. I don't have a daughter but do brownies and think the girls look really cute in them

I remember big bows being in fashion in the 80s when prince Andrew met Sarah Ferguson and she wore big bows. I had several and loved them

So someone enlightenment what's wrong with them??

I let DD aged 9 buy one on the condition she listened to an explanation of marketing.

That way she'd understand how this young woman, JoJo has made a ton of cash out of selling BOWS.

She listened and then decided to buy some grossgrain ribbon and make her own.

Let her buy it. I remember how much stuff like that meant to me when I was little. To her, it's important even if you think it's hideous (they're not THAT bad!)