Tesco selling padded bras for SEVEN year olds.

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What have we been putting in the water is 7 year olds are developing breasts?

I had nothing at 7, although by 12 I had 36c and no bras really suitable for a 12 year old with that size chest.

I HATE parents that dress little girls like street corners hookers, if parents stopped buying it shops would stop selling it... the blame lies mostly with the sickos who by it more then the sickos who make it.

The saddest thing is that there must be some nutters who will actually buy them for their seven year old. I bet we get an AIBU thread from someone whose family member has bought their daughter one of these.

Dose it come with matching g-string? Is there a peep hole one to follow? Sick, Sick, Sick

I rejected knickers today that had 'butterfly garden' written on them for my 7-yr old dd. Somehow that seemed so wrong (as did the t-shirts exhorting shopping, spending Daddy's money and boys).

Have just seen the red bra and it is vile.

WTF is wrong with Tesco?

Everyone on line now who thinks they are mad should emial them telling them so.

they shouldnt sell padded bras for children full stop.why the hell would a 14 year old want a padded bra?i was trying to make mine look smaller when i was that age so i got less attention from pervy old men

i personally think the stores that sell these things are the ones at fault.they stock them and market them at a particular age group.yes,most of us are sensible and intelligent enough to know when something is inappropriate for a child,but some parents dont have a clue(why else would people buy playboy stationary for 8 year olds?).if the stores didnt sell them,nobody could buy them,not the other way round.

I have to say that these companies don't do anything without real thought about where to place these items for the best marketing. They may not be overtly marketing them for 7-8 year olds but I will be that it is no accident that they are placed right next to that age range by acciddent.
My dd is only 4 but is in clothes for 6-7 year olds and that is such a hard age to buy appropriate clothing in. It has gone from being able to choose lovely clothes age appropriate to my choice being smaller versions of adult wear. My dd is a very girly girl and loves dresses and although some lovely things out there a lot is not for an 7 year old never mind a 4 year old.

WTF? Why on earth are they selling padded bras to children in the first place, let alone 7yos? Young teenagers should not be in underwear designed to make them look sexy. I don't understand why we have paedophile hysteria (mind those ball pools at soft play!) while allowing companies to turn young children into Lolitas. Very messed up.

Am very relieved I have a ds, not a dd.

ineedacleaner-i have always had the same problem with my dd1,who is 9 now and in 12-13 clothes.its impossible to find nice party dresses for her at christmas time,and has been since she was 5.all the 'party wear' in her size looks like mini versions of what 20 year olds wear to go clubbing.

I think padded bras marketed at young teenagers, let alone children, are wrong. It just sends such a horrible message to girls at a very tender, sensitive time of their lives. Yuck.

I had a slightly padded bra when I started wearing one aged 13. It was the tiniest bit of stuffing on the bottom part of the cup and I still wear one even today to smooth my shape out. Better a padded bra for teens than an underwired one anyday for general health.

I agree that some clothing sold by ALL supermarkets/retailers is inappropriate for adolescent girls but yet again this turns into a 'let's bash Tesco' thread. Because no other retailers ever do such things do they?
How insulting to parents that you lot think we are all too stupid to realise when clothing is inappropriate. And let's face it if there is such a parent then a bra would be the least of a child's worries

IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT DON'T BUY IT
If enough people agree with you they will soon stop being sold. Tesco are money grabbing B*DS according to most on here so they arn't going to waste shelf space on things that don't sell.
In Tesco's defence their kids range does at least go up to 15. My dd is big for her age and in order to buy clothes from some retailers I have to buy her adult sizes. At this time she is wearing some pants that my sil bought me for Xmas but they are shorts style ones which I don't like. Rather than chuck them dd is wearing them. I expect you may not consider them appropriate but she hasn't fallen prey to any rampaging paedophiles yet!!!(They have 'festive fun' written on them and they are red!!!I must be a dreadful mother)

Agree commercial damage a thoroughly good thing

Disgusting, irresponsible amoral marketing.

I expect there are people who would dismiss the toy pole-dancing set they were selling as a bit of "fun" too. Bizarre

Newspapers must take responsibility for some of advertising though. I for one probably wouldn't have known about these bras if they hadn't written the articles in papers. My dd has no boobs despite her above average size so I wouldn't even be looking for one.

I contemplated going to the pole dancing classes at my local gym with my friend for a laugh. I'm immoral ...please rescue me. We watched through the window and decided we probably would make complete and utter twits of ourselves so gave it a miss.

Pole dancing for adults is probably fun. My dd(7) would doubtless be better at it than me though.... not that I'd send her.

got my fist bra at 11 iirc. from a mate coz was too embarrassed to ask me mum. id have killed for a padded one
the words 'fried eggs' and 'ironing board' were used often in reference to my meagre offerings. [boo hoo hoo]

Fck me that is evil, speaking as the mother of a seven year old girl. That's shudder-worthy.

Although admittedly I've been enormously bosomy from a very young age, so the appeal of the padded bra has never, ever, been obvious to me.

I'm kind of envisaging DD1 moving on to crop tops in the next few years, not one of those vile things.

Daft as. Shall be going somewhere else to do my shopping until that place annoys me!!

Excuse my ignorance, but I have never bought a bra in my life. If they are made for older girls/young women then wouldn't they be completely the wrong size for 7 year olds anyway?

If that's the case then they are not in fact trying to sell them to 7 year olds at all and the title is misleading.

good point. wouldnt they need to be made in size 20AA?
(are they?)

i bought a suspender belt in the coop when i was about 12. i thought it was a bra flat enough for me. couldnt work out why the straps needed those funny rubbery attachy things on the shoulder... but i made it work. (it never even occured to me it might be a suspender belt, dont think i knew what one was.)[PMSL]

I think it is papers that have pushed the 7 year old thing...Don't think that Tesco have said they are meant for 7 year olds. They are supposed to have displayed them in same area as children's/teenagers underwear. That's all