to think a pair of black opaque tights and a denim mini skirt is not suitable attire for............

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a 5 year old to wear to her birthday party at a soft play centre? And to also think you should not post a picture on facebook of said little girl in her opaque tights and mini skirt in the soft play with her legs wide open showing her red knickers? Yuk.

I am usually very non judgy but this has riled me.

Women's clothes on little girls annoys me anyway though TBH and is definately one of my bugbears.

Plus don't most soft play places say trousers and socks???

Hmm...I do think the underwear picture is a bit odd but I see little girls in tights/skirts all the time. I think some of them are adorable, the striped/polka dot ones for instance.

I hate little girls in slutty clothing too...once when we were in Target there was a sign advertising "flirty tees" for little girls and DH nearly blew his lid! "They are toddlers! They do not flirt!" Which, he's right.

Yes, but what's wrong with skirts that actually cover something??!! I'm not saying my DD dresses like a puritan or anything, but she knows what's reasonable. I did do a cats bum face at a 5/6yo girl's mum outside tesco's yesterday. The little girl. In the snow. In a denim mini skirt. With no tights. Or coat. AND it was REALLY mini (like 18yo going clubbing mini)...(The mum had a nice warm coat and jeans on - WTF??!!) Am I old??? I'm only 28??

LOL I thought you were going to say for those over 50 or something! Nothing wrong with tights & a denim skirt for 5 year old.

I wouldn't put up a picture like that on FB -but at the same time, it wouldn't have occured to me to start an AIBU about someone who had. She's 5 with knickers on, not 15 without!

Adult style tights on a very little girl seems totally impractical at a soft play place - wouldn't they ladder terribly? And I agree not appropriate. But a short skirt (for easy play) and bright stripy/dotty/flowery thick tights are lovely on a little one (I'm really glad my nine year old still just fits the largest length girls tights, but it will be her last winter for them I suspect).

can I thread crash and ask where you all buy your clothes for your five year old dds?

lol at OP

i think a niquab is a better attire for a woman natch

Denim mini and tights(whether opaque or sheer, patterned or plain) are fine for a 5 yr old girl.

Photos on FB that show her knickers, whilst not the prettiest of poses, are hardly inappropriate, she's 5 and will sit with legs akimbo and not notice or care.

Relax.

Thick tights and short skirts were pretty much all that was available when I was five (late 60's). Don't really see this as adult clothing at all.

@ GleeE4

Actually tights and a mini skirt are the best thing to wear at soft play - nothing lets you whizz down the slides faster than tights imo. I used to make a point of wearing the same at the toddler sessions (the ones where adults are allowed on, too). I didn't make ds wear tights and a mini skirt though. He wore joggers - otherwise known as "fast trousers"

As an aside, I have never seen a 5yo look slutty. I doubt that they can. "Women's" (as opposed to girls') clothes bring to mind work suits and suchlike. And possibly full-length gowns of the kind Angela Rippon might have worn to an awards ceremony circa 1976. I think that's just me though.

Opaque means not transparent.

I think it's a bit weird to look at clothes for children and label them 'slutty.' What makes a denim skirt and tights womanly or slutty?

Obviously, if they're wearing padded bras or have provocative slogans across the front, that's one thing. But how is a skirt slutty? Why are sequins or sparkly clothes slutty? Why are only traditional (old fashioned?) clothes suitable for little girls?

fgs this is a sttupid thread
a little girl wears denim skirt
OOHNO

Huh?
I purposely dress my DD@s like this for soft play.
Tights don't get pulled off and lost like socks in soft play.
Long skirts are dangerously impractical for toddlers. Short skirts much safer.

OP is being weird IMO.
'Girls dressed as women' is hysterical. WTF are we supposed to dress them like? Polar Bears?

I HATE HATE HATE seeing 3yos dressed as teenagers. Luckily my DD (3.5) is one of the only one of her friends who still likes to wear proper party dresses to parties.

However YADBU about the situation you describe. There is nothing wrong with a little girl wearing a short skirt and opaque tights. My DD (3.5) is obsessed with wearing skirts, and nine times out of ten they end up riding up, and her tights slip down nora batty style! I have never once thought this was particularly inappropriate.

On another point, my DD loves taking her socks off all the time (as does DS - must be something in the genes!) so I quite often take her to soft play wearing tights so that I don't have to spend the whole time wandering through ball pits trying to retrieve odd socks.

"nice velvet jeans" The mind boggles.

OP you are a bit over the top really. Nothing wrong with the outfit described, stop putting an adult theme into an innocent picture of a child having fun.

It sounds fine, and red pants means no fanny on display, sao what's the problem?

Wow. that was really rather bitchy Lequeen.
Suggest you relax a little and step away from the velvet jeans. Presumably sans sequins.

My DD used to wear a Gap mini jeans skirt over a Liberty-print bikini, with mini-Havaianas, when she was on beach holidays when she was a toddler. She looked lovely and not the slightest bit tarty! Just sweet and innocent!

@ itsmeolord and Jack's polar bears. And at the thought of Vegas strippers in Bratz shoes

The outfit is cute - tights and a denim skirt for a little girl... that is weird how exactly?
What an insane thing to get worked up about.
Bonsoir that outfit sounds gorgeous btw.

Oooh, how was the jacket, itsmeolord? Have you got it yet?

Perhaps it would go with a denim mini and opaque tights?

Or even velvet jeans?