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Girly crop top and knickers for a 6/7yr old wanted on high street. Must be seperates. Where?

19 replies

SlightlyMadScreachingSirens · 24/11/2007 23:35

Just as a stocking filler.

Tesco have some lovely 2 part sets for £3, BUT they only do 5-6yrs or 7-8. They would need 5-6 knickers (miniscule bum & waist) but 7-8 top (broad backed).

Is there anywhere on highstreet I can get seperates? Don't want to pay a fortune.

Thanks,

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brimfull · 24/11/2007 23:51

don't they still wear vests at this age

SlightlyMadScreachingSirens · 24/11/2007 23:53

they do...I just want one girly pretty one.

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SlightlyMadScreachingSirens · 25/11/2007 18:23

bump

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MrsBadger · 25/11/2007 18:28

buy two tesco sets for £6 and use the right size bits?
hardly a fortune

SlightlyMadScreachingSirens · 25/11/2007 19:04

That is something I have considered....just trying to get what I want in the first instance

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PaulaYatesbiggestfan · 25/11/2007 19:06

i would not introduce your daughter to crop tops until at least 10 unless she is developing..
i would seriously think about the implications

HuwEdwards · 25/11/2007 19:07

The Huw girls - 5 and 7 still wear vests

SlightlyMadScreachingSirens · 25/11/2007 19:16

They still wear vests, and will still wear vests.

I just wanted something special and thought it would make a nice stocking filler.

SOme of their frends are developing and wear them so it is natural they will want one.

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NAB3littlemonkeys · 25/11/2007 19:17

But why? It's not like a pair of trousers that they can show off. Let them be young children.

ekra · 25/11/2007 19:19

Can a vest only be 'girly' if it allows the child's midriff to show?!?

SlightlyMadScreachingSirens · 25/11/2007 19:23

Why not troiusers?

  1. I cannot get trousers to fit them properly.
  2. They won't fit in stocking
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Nymphadora · 25/11/2007 19:41

I have just put dd1 (almost 8) into crop tops mainly cos she is starting to develop some signs and is very concious of boys when getting changed at school.She doesn't wear vests cos she gets too hot so this was a sort of compromise.I was quite shocked how little they started and also how skimpy some were, I got the ones that were like vests butwithout a middle but had an awful job finding some.

chocolatespiders · 25/11/2007 19:44

dd 9.5 just started wearing crop tops as buds appearing.... i would not have let her wear them before that

you can buy some lovely vests if you look around - mothercare, asda, matalan,

but maybe i am just strange as i wont let my girls wear bikini's either

SlightlyMadScreachingSirens · 25/11/2007 20:59

TBH I don't see what the issue is about 'exposing' the midriff...

I am not trying to get a bra.

I was looking at vests that had the bottom chopped off.

They wear crop top style bikinis/tankinis which is more revealing as people do see their midriff in the pool. (They do not wear little tiny triangles which cover about 2 sq cm)

A crop top is just an item of underwear. Never likely to be seen.

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chocolatespiders · 25/11/2007 21:05

it is a personal choice i dont want my dd's exposing there midriff and i dont want others looking at it,
if you so badly want crop top just buy the set you want or 2 sets? it is personal choice...

i want my daughters to stay children for as long as poss, i am sure the day will come when they will want to wear bikinis etc ie when they are 16 ish but in the mean time i wish to preserve there childhood

PaulaYatesbiggestfan · 25/11/2007 21:17

its just simulating adult underwear
way too young imo

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 25/11/2007 21:59

Peacocks. Cheap as chips.

I do not approve of 8 year olds having anything bra-like, which you can get in Tesco.

I bought DD (8) these sets because she won't wear a vest anymore.. she doesn't like the way they rumple up under her clothes and won't tuck them in her knickers! I wanted her to wear something under her top in the colder months so got these instead. They are not remotely bra like.

ekra · 26/11/2007 10:01

"TBH I don't see what the issue is about 'exposing' the midriff..."

Because when someone else asked don't they wear vests at this age you said yes, but you just wanted to get her one pretty girly one.

Can't a regular vest be pretty and girly or is pretty and girly only achieved by a child showing more flesh or looking like a mini-adult?

NAB3littlemonkeys · 26/11/2007 14:32

My point about trousers was because you seemed to be saying you were buying the cropped tops because her friends had them, but no one would know as they wouldn't see them.

Keep them children!

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