Friends have been asking me when I’m going to go off on the Abercrombie push-up bra for the busty 8 year olds in your life.
But I’m not.
I need to protect myself from the Abercrombie loving feminist trolls who attacked without warning when I confessed I would not, could not, shop at perfumed slut inducing stores sexualizing little girls.
Boy, did that hit a nerve.
I was hating Abercrombie long before it was cool to hate Abercrombie.
What’s not to hate? The price? The smell? The billboard advertising we pay $26, 36, 40 to emblazon across our small chested daughters to parade around school? They should be paying these kids to wear their stuff; not the other way around.
But here’s what I am going to say:
They wouldn’t be selling it if adults weren’t buying it. No 7, 8, or 9 year old has lost enough teeth to shell out the $18 for the bikini. Not if there’s Sour Patch Skittles to choose instead. And the tweens insisting on these clothes have their parents by the nutsack or boobsack; it’s the adult’s job to be the grown-up and say no-fucking-way.
It’s what parents do: PARENT.
So if there’s an adult opening a wallet to shell out the dough, there will be a corporation ready to produce it. It’s the American way. Or actually, the made in Indonesia-China-India-Guatemalan way.
So stop already.
And if the technology exists to create a bra to give breasts to someone who still sleeps with an American Girl Doll, why can’t a bra be made to keep my boobs where they used to be – rather than escaping at every given chance like the Bronx Zoo cobra. Push up, pull up, tape up, inflate up, whatever it takes. I’d buy it.
If you ever find the bra “made to keep my boobs where they used to be” please let me know! I’m tired of hauling around these water balloons. New follower from Over 40!
Duct tape works wonders. And? It comes in all colors, patterns and thicknesses.
Needless to say, it’s tough to take it off.
it’s just so wrong. here we sit, with money to spend, but fashion makers are concentrating on pre-pubescent market. feels quite icky, eh?
I am not a fan of Abercrombie either! The stink makes me wanna vomit just walking past it… not to mention all the other good reasons!
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I’m so glad I don’t have a little girl – all the clothes look like street walker style to me these days. I always think “your 4th grader looks like a tramp”. I’m bad. Put me on the waiting list for the bra though – I would buy those up in a snap!
Of course Abercrombie’s little trick of putting the WASPy kids on the sales floor and the non-white kids in the back really did not endear themselves to my super-liberal heart.
But on the retail plus side–Aerie…I think they are a spin off of American Eagle–their bra store is a god-send to moms with teenage daughters looking for the right fit. It is NOT trashy or sultry–just a well set-up store that makes young teens comfortable with their bodies.
http://lazymomcafe.blogspot.com/2010/02/teen-bra-heaven-aerie.html
@Kris — i get po’ed at the parents; slut is never a good look at any age.
@lazymom: AGREE on Aerie, cute and enough sex appeal for them to feel the like the adults they’re becoming.
@mommaC – thx for visiting! BLECH – the stench is almost, but not quite, as bad as the clothes!
Geez- you said it so right. if they would just develop the right fitting bra for women who want it and WILL PAY THE PRICE FOR IT… they would prob be a lot richer!!!!! Love this post!
The last thing we need to do is dress our little girls like little hussies.
Ya know what’s truly sad and maybe good? I didn’t even know about this clothing line until this issue came up. I had to ask my 13 year old and she said A LOT of the kids at school wear the line. So I ask, “you don’t like the line?” her answer? “It looks like everything else, just costs more. So stupid” That’s My Girl.
And? Hello? It’s the parents who r stupid enough to shell out money for this crap that keeps it in the stores.
Can’t tell you how glad I was when my boy saw the cheerleaders at a competition he was checking out because he’s starting gymnastics, and he said “why are the girls dressed like THAT? It looks weird and uncomfortable”. He’s 8. If we can keep that mindet for the next decade or two, we’ll be set.
As if the clothes weren’t bad enough, what’s up with the prostitute application of makeup on the pre teens? They looks like they are trying out for the Jersey shore tribe!
less is more; except with clothes. then more is more!