Coming soon to a Kiddie Beauty Pageant near you.
Posted on 09/09/2006 10:53:28 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
BREAST-enhancing padded bras for girls as young as six are being sold in Victorian shops.
Childhood experts have warned parents they could be baiting pedophiles by dressing their young girls as raunchy women.
Tiny matching lingerie sets of lacy bras and knickers in many children's brands including Bratz, Saddle Club and Barbie, have hit the shelves aimed at girls who are barely old enough for school.
The Herald Sun last week revealed the latest Bratz Babyz range included sexually provocative baby dolls dressed in leather and lingerie.
The padded Bratz "bralettes" were among more than 30 different junior bra styles starting at size six on sale at a city Target store visited by the Herald Sun yesterday.
The Australian Family Association warned parents against sexualising their children. "We have a growing problem with pedophilia and people viewing children as sex objects," spokeswoman Angela Conway said.
"Children do not need these products and I am appalled. It is more than bad taste. The sexual portrayal of children in this country is illegal and these products are pandering to just that."
Australian Childhood Foundation CEO Dr Joe Tucci said padded bras were "the most ridiculous piece of clothing a parent could buy".
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This is absolutely sick.
Unbelievable. How about letting kids be kids as long as possible. I can't imagine...
I wonder how long until they're available here in the USA.
Disgusting! This article deserves a "barf alert"...
"Childhood experts have warned parents they could be baiting pedophiles by dressing their young girls as raunchy women."
Duh. This is happening more and more. Take a walk through your local mall. The mothers dress like street walkers and dress the daughters the same as them.
Coming soon to a Kiddie Beauty Pageant near you.
I googled "Bratz bralettes" and came up with 308 hits. This crap is apparently already available at Target and other US outlets.
I agree. I got my first training bra (thats what they were called back in those days) when I was about 11 or 12 and HATED the damn thing!
Whatever happened to childhood and being okay to be a kid??
Hmm...I wasn't aware of that. But then, I never go to the kids clothes section. Too bad!
W-M bashers are saddened that this isn't W-M doing this.
Training bra? What a strange concept. Now that you mention it, I do remember something like that from the early 1960s. Maybe it's not all that different.
Trying to dress little girls like little girls becomes more and more difficult without breaking the bank.
Training bras in the 50's and 60's were white, soft and functional, not meant to be decorative and sexy. Only decoration might be a little bow, that's all. Very feminine and functional.
The type of "little girls" clothing carried my Target is one of the main reasons I do not like that store.
I was 13.........and now at 46 probably could still fit into it...LOL!!!!
I'm a guy, so I'm pretty ignorant about these things, but the whole concept of a "training bra" mystifies me. I mean, what do boobs have to be "trained" to do? And what happens if they're not "trained"?
Untrained boobs frequently become democrat politicians.
Don't allow children to watch television and read girl's fashion magazines. They'll be influenced and be asking to weara bralettes like their friends. I find television and print media to be vicious viral marketers of oversexualisation of our children. I feel sorry for today's children. They have a lot to deal with :(
LOL!!!!
I always thought they were for flat-chested teens to not be left out of the crowd.........I was one of them!!!
"I was 13.........and now at 46 probably could still fit into it...LOL!!!!"
I guess they didn't work very well, then. [grin]
A lot of those kiddie beauty pageants are in our public schools. I never understood the importance of uniforms until I got older....and wiser.
It's not the boobs that are being trained. It's the girls who are being trained-- to regard their bodies as bait and present themselves in public as easy pickin's.
ROFL!!!!
Good one.
"Training bras in the 50's and 60's were white, soft and functional, not meant to be decorative and sexy. Only decoration might be a little bow, that's all. Very feminine and functional."
Well, they were certainly a mystery to us boys. A mystery we were all quite determined to solve, too.
Whatever happened to childhood and being okay to be a kid??
Same here. I remember when my daughter -- who is now 16 -- "graduated" from kindergarten. There was one little girl classmate wearing a halter top, mini skirt and heels with far too much make-up. Her mother thought it was cute.
The mother who thought that type of getup was cute when my daughter "graduated" from kindergarten was told to go home change, the child's outfit, wash off the makeup, or she (the child) would not be permitted to participate.
Giving perverts a new candy store.
Besides hating the "Bratz" brand of anything, there is nothing immodest or innappropriate about that training bra. Some girls (and their parents) might want them for girls when they start getting bumps that jiggle. I wore them for riding, and for sports, pretty early on. There is nothing modest about NOT wearing one when a young girl is wearing a t-shirt in summer.
Course I hate them now... And avoid them whenever I can :~)
I totally agree.... what are we doing to today's children. Crime rates against little girls seem to have sky rocketed. I am sure that things like this are part of the reason....or maybe we can just blame clinton.
Chortle!! Yep!
According to my kids BRA stands for Batttle Ready Armour.
In our area I can buy either sports bras that are flat with no padding or soft cup bras which are lined lightly but no padding. Yes, there are also the ones that are in horrendous taste, I saw a bra and panty set in animal print with black lace size 8-10 girls.
Because we let children be children as long as possible, we have many Democrats elected.
It may be just as true that having padded bras, rather than baiting child molesters would encourage them to look elsewhere. Nearly by definition, child molesters prefer children, and disguising your child with adult features would help protect them. That doesn't mean that I will be giving my 9 year old daughter a false mustache, but...
If you can't have your child carry a gun, what other approach do you have?
(I think this is a lister.)
Bras for SIX YEAR OLDS?
I've seen a little girl in my small rural town dressed up like little tarts in black lace outfits, she wasn't old enough to be in first grade. What to speak of all the pre-pubescent girls in "slut training" outfits. It is very, very sad. Sometimes I'll see a child in what used to be stardard girls' clothes - dress, braids - and I'm shocked.
LOL!!! You and me both :)
"Children do not need these products and I am appalled. It is more than bad taste. The sexual portrayal of children in this country is illegal and these products are pandering to just that."---New.com.au
We're just recovering from a sickening media circus created by exactly this frightening parental aberration..
"Because we let children be children as long as possible, we have many Democrats elected. "
I respectfully disagree. There's a world of difference between letting actual children retain their childlike innocence, and allowing older teenagers and young people in their twenties act like irresponsible punks.
You're comparing not apples and oranges, but apples and bunnies with pancakes on their heads.
The real truth is that the padding is to make sure there is no umm... nipple that pokes through. They aren't padded to make you look bigger at all.
But don't let that stop people from freaking out.
Here's the official Bratz.com website. The website is full of macromedia flash, so I couldn't manage to link a picture here.
http://www.bratz.com/
Coming to a decadent store near you, no doubt.
> Same here. I remember when my daughter -- who is now 16 -- "graduated" from kindergarten. There was one little girl classmate wearing a halter top, mini skirt and heels with far too much make-up. Her mother thought it was cute.
This is child abuse. So are kid beauty pageants. It's appalling how these otherwise moral parents dress their young girls up like tarts and then expect no consequences.
It's time for some good, old-fashioned societal diapproval, at a local level. In the grocery stores, schools, etc.
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This is absolutely sickening!
Please: Child beauty contests are not child abuse.
Child abuse is child abuse. Words have meanings. Child beauty contests may be ill advised, inconvenient, silly, boring or many other things. They are not child abuse.
Just saying...
It's dag-gone difficult at times to dress little girls as little girls, and not street walkers, without breaking the bank. For that reason I do a great deal of shopping in thrift stores to clothe our 8yo. she grew so much this summer that outfits I bought her in June no longer fit her and the dresses are far too short to be decent in public.
They're basically for young girls who can't wear a bra in a regular cup size, but are developed enough that you can start seeing the breast shape and nipple under the girl's shirt. The idea is to cover up, not be provocative.
Geez, thanks for the unneeded visual.
Geez so sorry! I guess maybe you'd have liked the visuals better if I was a certain blond tennis player.
Oh well, I do the best I can. They're just not comfortable.
Saves on toilet paper.
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