Girls' clothes: AIBU?

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These images are from a local 'boutique' AIBU to think:
a) Most importantly, they hinder movement and play.
b) They promote girls as dolls to be dressed up and looked at as an accessory to the parent.
c) They buy into quite dangerous societal stereotypes.
d) Some of them tap too far into the 'bordello' image of women with the 'socks' looking like stockings with short skirts, which is totally inappropriate for children.

YABU- They're clothes and personal choice calm down.

YANBU- This look is concerning in some of the above ways.

YANBU because even setting all the reason you've given aside ( which are all valid), the whole outfit is just hideous regardless and I'm wondering who would ever dress their dd like that ?

I didn't want to judge but I also think they're hideous! The website is very popular and the clothes are super expensive!

They also don’t look very nice! But that bit is just my opinion.

For all the reasons you’ve said, yanbu.

It looks like something a kid would wear to a wedding or party or something rather than every day wear.

I don't think they are very nice but I couldn't get offended about them.

Thanks Stanis, love the name!

I wouldn't say I'm offended, just concerned.

Probably stereotyping here but aren’t these clothes popular with the traveller community? But no they don’t look very comfortable and I wouldn’t dress my children in them.

It looks like something a kid would wear to a wedding or party or something rather than every day wear.

I’m not sure children should be at the kind of party where this style of attire would be appropriate!

I definitely thought 'Moulin Rouge' when I saw the pics, and that's not something you really want associated with kids!

I agree with everything you’ve said !

It’s teaching girls from birth that their value is
in how they look. I honestly wonder how fashion has become so stereotyped and sexist recently.

They're horrible... and I think they have a sort of weird lingerie dress-up feel about them. Not something I'd ever dress a little girl in.

Oh these are awful . . . and yes, I also think they're a bit inappropriate; almost a parody of stockings.

Yep. It's dress DD as a Victorian dolly day.
Hideous.

I suppose I didn't think about the traveller community, this shop is near a large city and many of their images are of customers modelling their new outfits and they seem to come from a wide variety of families.

YANBU but not for the reasons you've listed (although the first outfit does kinda resemble a child's version of the Japanese Lolita fashion). I generally don't find these outfits very tasteful...they're a bit naff looking arent they.

YANBU. Distasteful.

Victorian dolly/ Moulin Rouge- yes!!! Cats you've expressed exactly how I feel: it shows girls it's about how they look.

Yuck. Even the way the children are posed, is creepy.

Yes the posing is suggestive, at times.

I'm going to go against the grain and say it depends on the age of the child! A baby in knee high socks with pom poms is adorable, a 3 year old is too much.
But I did dress my DS in Spanish style knee high pom pom socks when he was 5/6 months for a couple of occasions where he could get dressed up

Bump some of the kids look up to age 6/7. These huge bows must, even for a baby, must get in the way?

YANBU, makes me really uncomfortable actually. Much like you OP, I’m not offended more concerned. They don’t look comfortable or appropriate.

Yanbu. They're grim.

Utterly ugly!