Boycott Abercrombie and Fitch

This holiday season send a message to Abercrombie and Fitch that you don't support their chioces in girls fashions. As I pointed out in a previous blog, they released a bikini line that included padded bikini tops for 8 year olds. They have also in the past introduced thong underwear for 8 year olds. Clothing retailers and designers should not be creating clothing for young girls that make them appear older and sexier. Not only it exploits girls and opens them up to sexual preditors, but it also starts shaping their minds and creates a bad sense of body image.

This sends the wrong message to girls. This sends the message that a girl should be worried about her figure and tells her how she should look to be attractive. This sends the message that her natural body is not good enough and she needs enhancements to lood good. This is why teenage girls are having plastic surgery. 

Make a stand that this kind of fashion is offensive and dangerous for young girls and should not be considered for a minute much less made available to the public.

Boycott Abercrombie and Fitch and take a stand to protect young girls.

Jan

Clothing--Seductive Vs. Conservative

I was shopping in the mall the other day with my 11 year old daughter and suprisingly enough (ha..ha..)there was another girl about her age wearing close to nothing!  I usually in this day and age hardly even notice that some girl is walking by us half naked but this girl was wearing shorts that were not much bigger than the width of a band-aid and a shirt that came up so high that it barely covered her chest!  She was also using crutches because she had a broken leg. She was getting quite alot of stares.  I couldn't believe that her mother would let her leave the house looking like that.  I told my daughter, "You will never be able to wear an outfit like that!"  She laughed.  Luckily, my daughter is not only beautiful, but she is exceptionally bright and athletic and would never have to be half naked to finally get noticed!

To my suprise a man over heard me speaking of this scantily clothed girl and  agreed with me!  He said "I would never let my daughter leave the house wearing that!  I am so proud of my daughter, she is attending Boston University and doing well!" It was so refreshing to hear a man was offended to see a girl half naked in a mall.  It is so great to see that there is still men out there that agree that women should respect themselves more than that, and keep their clothes on!

I have to admit that I am liberated, I am not a women who wears turtle necks and long sweat pants to hide myself.  I like to dress up in fashionable clothes and look attractive and feminine but with class and tact.  I love clothes, jewelry, high heels, makeup and all that girly stuff.  I usually have to give my daughter fashion advice because I know the lastest styles better than her. She always asks me how I am so good at putting fashions together and making everything flow together so nicely. I want her to be in style, and fit in, but I still refuse to let her wear some of the clothes that the girls wear that are quite revealing and seem too mature and sexy for an 11year old girl.  I want her to always dress with class and there is no need to display yourself like a piece of meat.

Truly sexy and beautiful women can get away with wearing an ordinary pair of jeans and a sweater and their sex appeal can still shine through.  So to all the single women out there, keep your clothes on, it might be harder to get the attention that your longing for, but when you do you might find that "diamond in the rough" a nice guy that loves your soul.

Steph

last quote: Nickelback song

Fashion for Girls - Too Sophisticated for 6

I went to Kohls today to buy some clothes for my 6 year old daughter. I like to buy a size up for shirts and sweatshirts and that meant that I got bumped out of the toddler and little girl section to the big girl section. I was startled at this realization that we've just entered into the big girl section. I had a lot of mixed emotions. I was sad and missed my little girl with cute, little girl clothes. Lady bugs, flowers and butterflies.

As I entered into the bigger girl section I was faced with a lot more sophisticated fashions and I have to tell you, I am compeletly not ready for that. I walked around and found nothing that I wanted to see my daughter wearing. I did pick up a couple sweatshirts. But the dresses and shirts and skirts were a little tough to absorb. I went back to the girls section to buy a size 6x dress. I like her at 6 being dressed in cute, girly clothes. Even the formal wear and party dresses are cute. The bigger kid clothes are much more refined and too sophisticated.

I think the "tween" years should scale back on the sophisticated clothing and remember that these are young girls. Let's keep them looking young and innocent and not dress them to look older. Let them enjoy being a girl and not worry so much about being fahionable. My daughter loves dressing up and being fashionable but I don't want that turning into sexy outfits or her being worried about being in fashion. What really worries me is that she probably would be attracted to these clothes. But I feel like it's my job as a parent to be sure she does not wear anything too grown up. When kids get older it's natural to want to be in fashion, but in elementary school, who cares and why should they? Elementary school is about having fun not being worried about looking good and impressing others, especially boys. We as parents should not buy our 6 and 7 year old daughters clothes that make them look older. I want to keep my little girl a little girl.

Jan