Stop Dressing Your Daughter Like A...

[Betsy]

Wow, that article is really sad! What is awesome, though, is that Christian conservatives are not the only ones who believe in modesty!!
I'm 24 and Mom never had to teach me about modesty-it was always my instinct to cover up. In fact, for a long time, I went overboard the other way. For years, I ALWAYS wore long skirts and loose shirts and refused to wear long pants. Now I wear shorts and long pants and try to find shirts ( without sayings!) that fit and aren't tight.
From what I've read here, if I ever get blessed with children, I will need to learn how to sew. It sounds like that's almost the only way to get modest girl's clothes anymore!

 

[dragonlili]

Ugghh... my SIL sent me the school pics of her girls, the 14 year old had a T-shirt that read "sweet cherry surprise". I don't know where she buys them clothes but she has been sending me hand me downs since my oldesty was 3. DH, her brother, insisted we throw it all away. I was shocked by what whorish stuff she sent. Years later I had to go look in the size 7-12 dept and I was shocked, too.

I don't buy that junk. We have found plenty of conservative classics. I sewed a lot when the girls were small. Plain jeans, sweaters, plain tops, they can be found.

Sad though.

My sis makes fun of my daughter and the chickens, too. It's their loss. Nothing like good clean fun. My kids don't watch Tv, play in the creek, play with chickens, and have really good heads on their shoulders.

 

[Rafter 7 Paint Horses]

This is so true!!!

My GD & I were just talking about this very same thing on Friday.
She saw some designers on TV and just couldn't believe that they were dressed like that. I told her that they were the people who decided what clothes were going to look like for every season. She said she didn't like the clothes that had all that stuff on them.
Thank God she is a jeans and t-shirt or sweatshirt girl!! At least we can get boys t-shirts and I can sew lace on or get chickens & horses screen-printed on them!!! She hates half shirts and short shorts.

She said she was going to talk to her mother (my ex-daughter in law) about the clothes she wears....LOL I don't know if it will help, but at least my GD saw something she didn't like, and she will remember that when she goes to pick out clothes again.

Jean

 

[lacyloo]

 

[Henrietta23]

My niece is 13 and totally not into any of the trendy stuff. My SIL gets all her stuff at LandsEnd and LL Bean. I can't believe the stuff in the stores for girls, even the youngest ones.

 

[Blisschick]

The author expressed my sentiments exactly. Both me and my sister are having the worst time finding clothes for our kids. My daughter (13) and niece (12) are only 9 months apart, so we're in the same boat at the same time. I don't mind the T-shirts with stuff on the front as long as it's not suggestive or offensive, but the stuff written on the butt is just OUT. No way I'm letting my daughter be an advertisement for child molestation.

What doesn't help are these parents who don't care what their kids wear and allow them to go around looking and acting like they're 10 years older than what they really are. All they're doing is encouraging the makers of these clothes to crank out more. It just ridiculous that I can't go into Walmart during the summer and find my daughter a pair of shorts that come just above the knee so she can have regulation clothes for band camp. They were all Daisy Dukes or something not much shorter. I ended up buying her clothes she called "granny shorts", but she wasn't gonna be wearing anything else as far as I was concerned!

My son isn't too hard to buy for nowadays. He's in men's shirts now, and he's not into logos, thankfully. When he was little, I used to get mad because I couldn't hardly ever find him clothes that didn't have some kind of sports logo or trucks or something. Why do the think all little boys are into sports?? Mine is sort of a geek.

 

[texasgirl]

This thread just goes to show how great chicken people are. Kind, caring and classy

 

[Henrietta23]

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My 5 yo son is like that too. He has a minor interest in baseball. He ends up wearing a lot of striped or solid color tee-shirts. He's into knights and the Beatles. Not a whole lot out there! Sponge Bob and Spider Man on the other hand....

 

[SpottedCrow]

My son would buy all his clothes at Hot Topic if I let him...
I went through that all black stage too, but I had a blue mohawk too...

 

[SloCrevs]

Try being a 16 year old girl living in a college town. This year I had to buy ALL my new clothes in the young men's section. I went up to the register in every store to help me. I wanted a long sleeve shirt. That is it. A LONG SLEEVE SHIRT! And you know what they said! They said that it wasn't "in fashion" so they didn't carry any. It gets below freezing, and they didn't have any plain long sleeve shirts! I couldn't believe it! And then all the pants they had were those funky "stressed" wear, or were skin tight! Of course, they had the "Juicy" and "South Pole" written all over the butt pants too. If I wanted loose, comfortable fitting pants, I would've had to buy 3 sizes larger! It was terrible. So all my shirts I bought in the young men's department, and the jeans I went down to LA for, when I was visiting relatives.

For Spotted Crow: I grew up in a very non-functional family*I'm only 16, but I got out of the situation*, and grew up at an art school. All I wear is black. I wear blue on occasion, but most of my wardrobe is black. It's not because I'm depressed or "goth" or "emo" or anything like that. It seems to be one of the few colors you can get things in w/out logos all over the place. Also I just love the color. And I adore Hot Topic. It's very upsetting to not have one around here.

So I'm very upset about it too. I've actually written letters to the heads of companys such as Mervyns and Gottshocks*sp?*.