Young girls wearing cropped t shirts

[Badgerandfox227]

DD is in year 3 and I wanted to get her a t shirt and cycling shorts set for a party she’s going to this weekend. Ordered one from Next and it’s arrived today - but it’s a cropped t shirt 😫

Why are so many young girls tops and t shirts cropped? Is it just me, or do you think it’s unnecessary at this age? Fine if she’s a teenager but she’s only 8! I don’t understand why mainstream shops are pushing this kind of look for young girls.

YABU - little girls can dress like teenagers
YANBU - it’s not appropriate for little girls to dress like teenagers

I hate it now and I hated it when I was a girl in the late 80s

Yeah, it’s the fashion right now and if my 8 year old desperately wanted one I’d probably let her have it but I do feel slightly uncomfortable about it. It’s the start of girls getting the message that one of the differences between ‘boys clothes’ and ‘girls clothes’ is how much of your body they cover and the expectation is that for girls it’s less.

This is the best comment I’ve seen today.

I hate this look on kids (and on teen girls too tbh). Ditto skimpy little shorts for girls.
Boys clothes are so much more practical and sensibly sized.
Anyone saying "well cropped tops arent sexy on young girls, what is sexy about a midriff" are being incredibly naive imho. Of course they are. Not to sensible, normal people obviously - but to creepy peado types, weirdo adults (mostly male) that dress up as children and autogynophiles they are.

This is 100% correct.

Any mum who has had a boy first and then a girl encounters the first winter and discovers that girls clothes and thinner and smaller. Even basics like joggers, a baby boys joggers are thicker and warmer, girls joggers are usually much thinner and there are less options, thin leggings or tights are widely available.

I fall around here too. I don't mind a bit of a crop, esp if a t'shirt or something long sleeved, dd wants them and she does look lovely in them... but I don't like it as I feel I have to police which ones are 'ok' and which not, what she wears it with etc. I do feel they are 'too much' with any low waisted bottom half, and I've vetoed t'shirts too short and tight.

I don't like seeing young kids in the tiny sports type ones, I try not to judge but it doesn't look right to me and others certainly do judge. Dd doesn't understand all the ins and outs of the loadedness of what one wears yet, so she needs a bit of help with that yet imo.

Teenage years will be interesting...!