Stop Dressing Your Daughter Like A...

[Laskaland]

GYMBOREE.com, The Children's Place... Department stores don't get it!!!!

 

[mullers3acers]

It's sad that kids cannot be kids that they are bumbarreded with all the adds and information that they could be better instead of just being themselves. Clothes don't make the person it's who you are inside and how you treat the people around you.

 

[FunnyFarmer]

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I hear that! No daughter of mine is ever going out of this house dressed like a lot of those girls I see in the mall (the two times a year I'm in one)! Fortunately in the homeschooling community (at least around here) none of the kids wear stuff like that. No fighting the peer pressure. The teen girls do wear more "grown up" clothing--but nothing I would have a fit over. Sigh. It's a crazy, crazy world.

 

[ksacres]

*sigh*

It's a crazy world we live in...

 

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

Jeezus people where are you all shopping and seeing these things?!?

I have a 6 year old that LOVES clothes and shopping for them nearly as much as she loves shopping for books. Granted we dont shop at the local mall. We hit Target and my mom goes to the high end consignment shop for clothes for her. But I have yet to see anything "trampy" at the Target the next town over.

And the only skanky looking clothes I see at her school are on the college students that have classes in the same building. And usually those are few and far between. Sure they wear sweatpants to class, and I HATE that. But I havent seen one dressed like she is going to work a the local strip club after. Most of the moms are dressed their "age" as well.

I do remember an outfit on Gymboree when she was about a year old.
It had a cute black top and a black "pleather" skort. The bottom had a zebra print short under it. My dh looked at it and said "Look it says SLUT right there" And I have thrown out a paid of argyl "knee highs" that my MIL bought when she was picking things up for dd's birth day.
They may have been knee high on a 10 year old. But they were THIGH HIGHS on my then 5 year old! She put em on ONCE. I freaked let her wear them around the house and then made her change before we went out. Time for wash and "Sorry. Sock monster got em both"
All I could think about was the Britney Spears video "baby Hit me One More Time" And if I was thinking that I sure as heck wasnt going to let her out there were some sicko might be thinking the same thing.

On the other side of it. I will also not allow her to dress like someone whose mom has no fashion sense herself. Some of the crap at Kohl's last fall was HIDEOUS

 

[AK_Button_Mama]

I guess I am the odd ball here but I allow my child to wear what she wants (she is 8) I once tried to dress her up in cutsie dolly dresses... she wont have any of it.... she only wants to wear jeans an t-shirts... she is a tomboy like I was. I figure she may some day want to wear hoochie mama clothes but right now she doesnt care. just wants to be cumfy..... so I am safe from dealling with these delemas.. the school she goes to the kids all mostly wear jeans a t's too and she will be in the same school with the same teacher until she goes to high school. I may put her in a charter school then too... seems like there is just not as much pressure on the kids there....

Good luck with locating clothes you find acceptable.

 

[B. Saffles Farms]

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No kidding MissPrissy the sad thing is that there is so much pressure on kids today, as always, to fit in and a childs desire to be accepted by his peers will so influence his taste.

Cannot stand to see STUFF written on kids butts!!

Dont they understand that things like that attract unwanted attention.

Randy

Walmart has hoodies without anything on them, I wear them to work. Also Carhartt makes hoodies with a small Carhartt logo, where your heart would be. But its the same color as the shirt and you cant see it unless you really look.

 

[TheOLDNewChick]

I'm glad someone ressurrected this thread. I missed it.

I'm getting more and more frusterated the older I get...I find I'm having to do most of my shirt shopping online. As far as skirts go...I've got to take up sewing. I have the hardest time finding decent skirts.

OH! And forget jeans that're feminine, but modest. There apparently is no such thing.

Am I the only one that hates the "skinny" jean thing?

 

[Henrietta23]

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No kidding MissPrissy the sad thing is that there is so much pressure on kids today, as always, to fit in and a childs desire to be accepted by his peers will so influence his taste.

Cannot stand to see STUFF written on kids butts!!

Dont they understand that things like that attract unwanted attention.

Randy

Walmart has hoodies without anything on them, I wear them to work. Also Carhartt makes hoodies with a small Carhartt logo, where your heart would be. But its the same color as the shirt and you cant see it unless you really look.

Hoodies are against the dress code in our district from the middle school level and up.

 

[conradpdx]

I got a 4 year old daughter, and we have this problem. I even remember seeing the "fresh picked cherries" shirt on the rack. I didn't really make the connection, but my wife did and pointed it out. (Honestly 99% of the time I don't read shirts anyway...it's not like there is anything important printed on them-and hey I'm a guy I'm just looking for the first opportunity to flee the clothing department in favor of the tool or electronic departments).

But I also remember in high school and junior high the girls getting out of the bus and straight to the bathroom and would emerge wearing clothes quite a bit different than those they left the house with. After classes they'd change back before loading into the bus on the way home. I even remember after 16 my girlfriend(s) changing in the car after I picked her up to goto school. Of course as a teen age boy I didn't mind (I'm surprised that I was never in an accident).