I can't begin to articulate how I feel about this

[ailbhe]

Children's underwear A bra-shaped crop-top with fetching Barbie logo and matching knickers for a girl aged 3-4 years, as sold in Woolworths, UK.

Comments

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

The only way it could be ickier would be if the pants were skimpier.

[ailbhe]

They're the shaped-like-y-fronts style that's so trendy nowadays.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Right. That seems to be actually a practical shape for young children of any gender. I see swimsuits shaped like that.

As for grownup women, I don't think they suit a wide range of body types and they feel decidedly odd.

[ailbhe]

Forgive me for doubting that practicality was a more pressing reason than fashion for the choice of design (hint: the same shop's cheapest range of pants for boys and girls are not cut to that shape, though even there the girls get less fabric and feebler elastic).

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Right. I have no doubt that it's another copying-adult-fashion thing. But at least it means one could find a cheap swimsuit that isn't a bikini.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

They're called "boyshorts" here, and yeah, appalling. The whole idea of pseudobras for kids who have nothing remotely resembling breast tissue yet, eek.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, and what really gags me is putting little girls in two-piece bikini-type swimsuits, because it draws proto-sexual attention to a body part that is irrelevant on a child. It's too bad that in North America people are weird about little girls swimming topless.

[rmc28]

Definitely. I hate hate hate that early-sexualising.