What young girls wear...

[Yorkiegirl]

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my dd 13yrs would love to wear a mini skirt but I won't allow it.She looks just as nice in jeans and a trendy top .I wouldn't mind her wearing a skirt that came to mid thigh but they are no where to be found!
It is okay to set the rules even at her age.She is my daughter and I won't have her dressing like a slapper .They shouldn't make these tarty clothes for young girls.
God I sound like a really old fashioned mum,believe me I'm not.I just thinnk she needs to stay young for as long as possible.

We don't fight over the issue she accepts it quite happily.Maybe I've been lucky so far.

One of the girls in ds1's class turned up to last year's Christmas Party at school in a tight black PVC leather-look mini skirt, knee high boots with heels, and a crop top with "Babe" on it in sequins. She was 6 at the time.

It's a Brit thing, isn't it? You don't see young girls here dressed like slappers at such a young age - they are more into jeans, t shirts etc. It's always easy to spot Brit teenagers here - they are FAT, low slung jeans, huge roll of fat being the filling in an arse sandwich between top of jeans and thong. Often topped off with a pierced belly button (hardly visible through the blub) and a tattoo. Tits are often shoved up with a Wonderbra with lots of cleavage visible for school. I'm not talking about 11 year olds (I hope!), more the 13-14 age bracket.

Where are you then tanzie?

I must be somewhere other than Britain then Tanzie cos all the teenage girls round here are skinny little leggy things wearing flared jeans or cords with skinny tees and hooded jackets and skate trainers.

Two words. Vicky Pollard.

My stepdaughter is 13 and wears baggy trousers or jeans, trainers, t-shirts and jumpers. She's not fat either!

I've read other threads like this but this is the first one since DD was born. She went to her nursery party in a beautiful velvet party dress and although she's only 6 months its the sort of thing I would have worn up to about age 10. Most of the other kids were just wearing ordinary clothes but there were a few in similar dresses and one 3 yo in a top with only 1 shoulder strap. Quite inappropriate.

My dd (2.5years) went to her party yesterday in a tutu and red wellies (her choice). Hopefully she's going to grow up with an eccentric rather than tarty dress sense!

yorkiegirl, there were girls as my DS1's school disco last week wearing high-heeled wedges, off-the shoulder tops and the like. This is an infant school so the girls are max age 7!! I was quite shocked.
DD (3.5) was quite overdressed in her long-sleeved dress and winter tights. But she was fine

Two words: Parental Control!

yeah and not only do they dress like tarts (nothing wrong with that I guess)

But what gets me is the fat flabby midriffs showing. Since when did kids and teenagers have fat flabby midriffs anyway. But also they need to learn quickly what to cover up and now to make the best of a bad lot.

I feel a bit ill when I see teenage girls with their bellies oozing over their hipster jeans on the tube.

I agree that it is awful. I'm not saying that I think girls should be dressed in velvet 'party dresses' with ribbon around the waist until they are 15, but all the tarty stuff just has to go.

I've got no problems with girls of whatever age wearing short-ish skirts with boots, so long as the boots aren't 'f*ck me boots' (you know the sort, black, knee high, thin & high heel...) and the skirt isn't around their arse. For instance I saw a little girl of around 5 in Birmingham city centre dressed in a kilt type short skirt (pleated), with woolly tights and mid calf boots (flat) and she looked perfectly cute. Not in the least bit provocative or tarty, she looked like a little girl dressed for autumn/winter.

I think the thing I object to most is the slogan stuff, mainly things like 'Hands Off!' splayed across the chest of a crop top or '100% babe' etc etc. Those things are tacky enough on adults (to say the least), but on kids it's just abhorrent.

At our Nativity Play one of the girls (3y) was wearing "Little tart" T-shirt , her mum FCUK like rabbit ...

fair enough it's the mother's choice to wear what she likes but to dress her DD in smething like that just makes me plain

I suspect I was a flabby-midriffed teenager, Flum (I certainly thought I was). But I'm not sure I agree they should be 'making the best of a bad lot'. Sure, I don't like pre-pubescents in 'sexy' clothes, but I think it's great that teenage girls are confident in less than 'perfect' bodies (rather than thinking, as I did, that the more layers they hid in the better for the poor old public).

Agree NDP: my dd1 - three - is wearing a little denim skirt, really quite short, with thick pink tights and ankle boots. And she looks a total cutie. Wouldn't put her in a T-shirt saying 'babe' though!

The only item of 'slogan' clothing my DD has is a pair of navy and pink Tesco pull on type trousers with 'angel' on them. She had a similar pair the year before without the slogan and they were great (cheap, washed well, comfy, good fit). I'd have prefered to buy them without the slogan again but they must've added it to the design for this year. TBH 'angel' is not one that upsets me, after all, she is an angel

I think it's the age at which it starts that worries me - when I was 15 I drove my parents nuts by insisting on punky miniskirts, fishnets & full slap at all times, but it does make me cringe to see blatantly tarty stuff on really young kids.

The worrying thing is that often these kids genuinely don't realise what signals they send out - I was covering an IT lesson a few months back for a year 9 class (13-14), & because the teacher hadn't really set enough work, was letting some of them show each other their own webpages or whatever.

Well. SEVERAL of them had covered their own websites with photographs of themselves dressed like baby hookers (usually proudly clutching an alcopop &/or spliff). They'd captioned these with real names & locations. None of them could understand why I was suggesting that this might possibly attract adverse attention! Very worryingly naive.

While i think it is good that teenage girls are less self-conscious about their bodies than my generation were, I do smile to myself when I see that the ones with midriff revaled are often those who should perhaps not draw attention to this particular part of their bodies.

I also agree wholeheartedly about younger girls dressing inappropriately for their age, however, as a mother of a seven yr old girl, I find I have to make a real effort to find clothes for her that are not teenage in style.

A branch of Hennes recently opened in our town and I have always really liked their kids clothes, used to make a trip once or twice a year to our previous nearest branch to stock up. However, now that my daughter is older, I have noticed that the clothes for 7+ are basically what I call teenagers clothes. BTW our local Next closed its childrens branch and moved the kids stuff to upstairs in the adults branch and there's no lift. So my choice of shops is getting even smaller!

MI - I disagree. I know your drunk as your at your office bash but I do take issue. I think however comfortable you are with your size, some items of clothing are clearly innapropriate.

I don't mean at the beach where its hot so everyone strips off. But in a town in the UK, fat flabby midriffs are innapropriate. Whereas a nicely fitted shirt and nice jeans look great on someone any size.

My daughter has a t-shirt that says Babe. She is one though.

thanks cindererella... for articulating what was stuck in my throat!

D'you think it's OK to expose a taut bronzed tummy, though?

(I was a size 12, by the way. Just a very self-conscious one.)

Flum has said before that sometimes she types inflammatory posts, even if she doesn't particularly hold the beliefs therein, just to get a rise out of people. Leave it alone, MI !