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Original poster

To think <bleurgh> at Next selling Rolling Stones T-shirts for 3-12 year old girls?

63 replies

BalloonSlayer · 06/02/2009 11:50

Yeah I know I should shop at Boden...

They also did Ramones ones, which I thought were an affectation rather than yuck.

I don't know why I feel this way - presumably because the Rolling Stones are still together as a band and are - IMO - a ghastly bunch of geriatrics.

Go on - tell me to get over myself.

OP posts:
littlelyn · 06/02/2009 12:04

YANBU - I couldn't believe it when I saw them. I think this season's range for girls at Next is very disappointing. Marks and Spencer have beaten them hands down this year - on price too!

laweaselmys · 06/02/2009 12:22

I think they're great. It's better than more flowers puppies and cutesy phrases.

Besides in our house the DC will actually listen to the rolling stones and the ramones. (whether they like it or not!)

PrammyMammy · 06/02/2009 13:00

YABU.
They are great. Next had Rolling Stones hoodies last season too for under 3's.

Thunderduck · 06/02/2009 13:01

YABU. I fully intend to put AC/DC t-shirts on our future child.

sweetcat · 06/02/2009 13:03

YANBU. I don't like it when adults wear a band shirt just because they are in fashion. If you wear a band shirt, you should like the band, end of (IMO). I don't know many children who would voluntarily listen to the Stones so why wear it? Slightly better than playboy stuff though

EyeballsintheSky · 06/02/2009 13:05

I think they're great but I also don't think people should wear the t shirt if they don't like the music. I have the Next Blondie T shirt and DD could get away with the Ramones as well as she listens to both whether she like it or not!

MillyR · 06/02/2009 13:09

YABU. My dd (7) wears a Che Guevara t shirt for sport, although she wears traditional clothes the rest of the time. If they did a Hendrix t shirt for children, I would buy one. In general, Next clothes are utterly vile anyway.

It is people over 25 wearing band t shirts that I think is a bit unsuitable, but it is really my business I suppose!

MillyR · 06/02/2009 13:10

Not my business I meant!

12StoneNeedsToBe10 · 06/02/2009 13:16

MillyR - I'm (well) over 25 and love my band t-shirts. I'll be getting two new ones very soon too (Metallica and AC/DC) as will DS.

Am I let-off because they're not just t-shirts, they're "proper" gig t-shirts?

charitygirl · 06/02/2009 13:17

Oh god YANBU. How naff.

MillyR - is your 7 year old a revolutionary socialist? Does she believe the end justifies the mean, including armed struggle?

12StoneNeedsToBe10 · 06/02/2009 13:22

To answer OP, YANBU for a 3-year old

MillyR · 06/02/2009 13:28

I am not judging you 12stone! Wear your top with pride! It is personal preference. I wouldn't want everyone to wear the same clothes.

Charitygirl, no she doesn't, neither do I. I believe the Cuban revolution was justified at the time it happened; I am not extending my thoughts on a particular event to justify a general system of morality. I bring my children up with my beliefs; she can make her mind up when she is older. She is somewhat aware of what happened in the Cuban revolution because she has been around the Museum of the Revolution and on a visit to the Bay of Pigs.

Sorry to everyone as this is now turning into a thread hijack!

Original poster
BalloonSlayer · 06/02/2009 13:40

Hijack all you like !

I have thought and thought and I think the reason for my bleurgh reaction is that as far as the Rolling Stones are concerned, they used to be sex symbols, and a woman or girl who wore a RS t-shirt in my youth (yes a long time ago ) would almost certainly have fancied one of them.

Nowadays I'd think the only women fancying one of them would be one of the old dears from the Shreddies adverts, and even they'd have to think about it. And yet I think that very young girls wearing the t-shirs gives off an impression that makes me uncomfortable. If they actually listen to the Rolling Stones and know who they are, that's a different matter entirely, of course.

I don't think I'd have given it a second thought if it had been a boy's top.

Methinks I am showing my age

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laweaselmys · 06/02/2009 13:42

Ah, It is a difference of association then. DP and I are too young to have properly been 'around' for a lot of the bands we love so none of the sex symbol stuff means anything to us at all. They've always been old foogies whose music we loved!

I do honestly think it's really nice just to have a bit of choice though. Especially for girls.

MillyR · 06/02/2009 13:52

Ballonslayer, I just love music. I love lots of different kinds of music, and so we have music on in the house all the time so my children do know quite a bit about it. They don't wear band tshirts because I make mine always wear unbranded/ no slogan type clothes apart from underwear and for sport (so tinkerbell/ doctor who underwear but not on a coat). I'm not sure why I do this; it just seems appropriate. I suppose I think there should be some limit to wearing of popular culture items! Presumably people who buy music clothes for kids really like music also, but maybe it is just a horrible tween type trend.

I do like this topic though; it is a nice lighthearted AIBU!

I think I could be convinced either way depending on what people argue!

laweaselmys · 06/02/2009 13:57

I think it's really nice for my DP - he loves music to bits, and I think it's great that he can pick out clothes for our little girl that mean something to him - instead of wandering around trying to find the least flowery/winnie the pooh clothes he can.

He likes the Klass clothes at mothercare as well for the same reason which I'm a bit more about, but I'm not going to say no to anything that gets them interacting.

fruitbeard · 06/02/2009 14:10

They do Ramones t-shirts for kids at Next???

harpomarx · 06/02/2009 14:15
Eve4Walle · 06/02/2009 14:16

Who are the Ramones?

doggiesayswoof · 06/02/2009 14:18

YANBU

The RS logo is sexually suggestive too imo. Totally inappropriate

I don't like seeing the Ramones t-shirts etc on kids either - naffola

BitOfsexyFunbutnotupthebum · 06/02/2009 14:23

Hmm, don't feel as strongly as I do about playboy stuff, but having young girls the age of Mandy Smith when she was creeped on by Bill Wyman wear Stones tshirts could be seen as a bit icky...

Eve4Walle · 06/02/2009 14:24

I wouldn't let my DD (5) out in a 'band' t-shirt.

The only printed branded thing she has is an English National Ballet Angelina Ballerina hoodie I got conned into buying when we went to see the show.

lollipopz · 06/02/2009 14:37

I have 2 dds aged 7 and 5 i don't think my 7 year old would be remotely interested in these she is high school musical mad! However my 5 year old would love them she knows the rolling stones and she is the biggest under 30 eagles fan i have ever met. They have both been brought up listening to music just have different tastes and i think this is the key if the child knows who they are and wants to year it fine, would be different if the child wasn't interested and was made to year it by a parent fan!

mrsruffallo · 06/02/2009 14:39

YABU
Much less offensive than the usual sexist rubbish.
We all really love the ramones anyway!

fruitbeard · 06/02/2009 14:55

Hmmm... DD does like the Ramones (and Carter USM, and Faithless, and Echo & the Bunnymen, to name but a few) - what would be naffola would be me making her wear my old Duran Duran t-shirts when she hates their music - philistine!

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