excreationist

I doubt their church would have told them to wear those clothes. Unless... their church was like <a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/fam_love.htm" target="_blank">The Children of God/Family of Love/The Family</a>... that organisation used a technique called "Flirty Fishing" where women "witnessed to over a quarter of a million souls, 'loved' over 25,000 of them and won about 19,000 to the Lord." The children were made to be sexually active, even with their own biological family members...

Allkholollick

lpetrich, perhaps my choice of words was inappropriate. But I have noticed that the trend in children's clothing is to mimic the trends in adult and teen clothing. Well, some children's clothing anyway.

It doesn't bother me that some people allow their daughters to wear what could be considered sexually suggestive clothing. Everyone has their own opinion about clothing. Great.

But why do the girls want to wear the clothing and why do their Xtian (or Fundy) parents go along? Most Xtians here in the bible belt have very conservative sexual attitudes. It would seem that they would want more conservative clothing for the kids.

I am not trying to condemn anyone for the way that they choose to dress. I don't want a sexually repressive society either. But clothing that is appropriate for an adult isn't necessarily OK for a child.

Just what is sexually suggestive clothing today anyway? As opposed to yesterday? Or what may come out tomorrow?

Later all.......

Bree

May I draw your attention to such clothiers as Abercrombie and Fitch and Vanity? Both stores were originally developed for a much-older crowd - AF for the teen/collegiate and Vanity for the middle to high school age.

Both stores are now targeting the under-10 age group. Vanity has clothing starting at size 6X (and you cannot, IMHO, use the argument that this is because girls are getting smaller and smaller) - this includes high heeled shoes in children's sizes, see-through shirts, thong underwear, and Gucci ripoff dresses with push-up bra style padding. Bra tops and boy-cut shorts with the word "bitch" on the bottom are also quite popular. Take a look at the mannikins they use to hang the clothes on - even the pre-adolescent ones have erect nipples whose only purpose is to show off the see-through shirts. AF has a line of "sexy underthings" for girls now, also in extremely small sizes.

Which brings up an argument I was having with my mother - why do women wear thongs, anyway? The original design of the thong was to prevent panty lines from showing underneath tight clothing - the sex appeal (for some) is in my opinion secondary to the original purpose. Why do 7 year olds need thongs? Because they're wearing tight pants?

PS - this goes to MD .

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