To think 6 year olds should not be wearing this

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Merchandise from a major dance show at the excel centre in London next month. They sell these, and tshirts from age 6 up.

I’m going to have to explain to a 10 year old why she can’t have a jumper...

Reminds me of milkmen do it on the doorstep from Father Ted.

I think your nuts

Indeed I think the country's gone nuts of late

If you really want to get offended by dance clothing inappropriate for little kids, then you need to go no further than disco freestyle costumes.

Never really thought about the Nike slogan before as I don’t wear it.
'Just do it' was inspired by Gary Gilmore's last words before he was executed by firing squad in 1977—"Just do it".

The phrase "... do it with ..." is a well known double entendre. Yanbu.

Vague memories of a friend’s awful ex boyfriend swanning around in one that said “accountant’s use the double entry system.” Complete with cartoon illustration in case you didn’t get it. Vulgar and no, I wouldn’t want a child to wear the ballet one either.

No the double meaning isn't in the ballet term, it's because of the double meaning in the ballet term that the innuendo works. Like the windsurfers doing it standing up. Yes, they windsurf standing up but "it" means sex.

I wouldn't be happy either - not because my kid / any kid that age, or twice that age, will understand the double meaning, but because it's sexualising very young children imo.

I wouldn’t expect my dd to get it, or anyone born after 1980, but I would be aware that older men would read the double entendre and I certainly wouldn’t want my dd wearing anything that would attract pervy older men. So a no from me

I'm surprised a lot of posters don't get this. I knew exactly what the op meant.

Agree with you OP although, going by a lot of replies on here, perhaps whoever designed it didn't understand the double meaning either. I would find it creepy if I saw a young girl wearing one.

YABVU. This is so ridiculous. I can’t believe what the world is coming to when people take offence at this kind of stuff. God forbid you ever face real problems.

Ffs, the OP isn't reading something into it - the double entendre is meant to be there! As pp have pointed out, this slogan is a version of an ages-old series of jokey slogans which were double entendres about sex. Just because some of you are unaware of them doesn't mean they aren't pretty well-known. Electricians do it with the lights on etc.

Of course it’s a pun about sex.

I wouldn't put my dd in it

I don't think half of the posters here understand the purpose and meaning of the original "(people of a certain vocation) do it (innuendo)" shirts. Maybe an American thing? This is not appropriate though may be the result of a misunderstanding...

This must be a generational thing.

I remember x do it y being everywhere.
I don’t get why people cannot see the double entendres.
Meaning one. The straight meaning of attitude within ballet.
Meaning two. ‘Do it’ was very common parlance for sex in the 80s. The double meaning is that ballet dancers have sex with attitude.

Perhaps it’s because I grew up on Carry On films and Viz.

viz.co.uk/2015/01/23/decision-buy-pet-not-taken-lightly/

Of course the ‘it’ is sex. Can’t believe how dense people are being. Unless the ‘do it with...’ joke is just so old now that it’s over a younger generation’s head?

It was not an American thing. It was an 80s thing.

Haff is right, this is an established and tired joke. Some of you may not have heard of it and so not make the connection but honestly, the use of this slogan stems from the double entendre. I seem to remember some people at university with 'Tory boys do it better' or some such. The meaning will be widely recognised as sexual so I wouldn't put it on a six year old.

Some t-shirts with typical examples here

Cannot believe people haven’t heard of the XX do it with YY craze - and yes it was most definitely a double entendre with a sexual undertone.

I know that attitude is a dance term and this top has both the “do it with” joke and the “attitude” pun. I like it but I wouldn’t put a 6 year old in it.

I had a bumper sticker that said Bellringers do it with ropes :)

it's over a younger generation's head

Exactly. That's what double-entendre is.

However in this case, the play on words is on the 'attitude' and not the 'it'. The word attitude is the one with the double meaning, unlike pretty much all the other examples on here.

Kids are going to wear this to the dance studio - where they won't necessarily understand the 'it' but they will all get the 'attitude' part.

*Clearly the 'it' can be taken mean sex.

As in all the other slogans 'divers do it under water' etc. Old tired joke and for that reason it's in bad taste and YANBU*

Yep, surprised by those seemingly unaware that it's a pretty old, standard joke for referring to sex. Although I don't think I could get worked up about it in this context.

I read it as "dancers do dance (it) with attitude". But "dancers do dance with attitude" sounds shit. As does "dancers dance with attitude".

Get your mind out the gutter