dress code?

[besotted nanny]

I am sure some of you out there will totally disagree with me but I am noticing more and more that so many of the little ones, I think I could safely say more little girls than boys are old before they have almost left the cot. I am talking about how parents dress them. Or is it the fashion industry? There is an ever increasing rise of "mini me's". I think the young years go fast enough as it is without dressing them as if they are teenagers and I think they look dreadful. I am the first to buy children's clothes that are fashionable and the children will like, but to me there is an age that is appropriate for certain clothes. I am not asking for long flowing dresses with ribbons and bows, but if my dd was tiny again I would most certainly not dress her how some of these young and some very young are walking around these days. I am sure I will get a response or two about being an outdated old fossil, but actually I am not.

[Granny Goggins]

Agree absolutely bn, and thankfully my two DD's do too, let little girls be little girls,not dressed like little tarts for want of a better word. Eldest grandbaby was allowed a tankini this year for holidays.Compromise as she asked Mummy for a bikini.

[pilates]

I completely agree! We may be old fossils but to see a four-year old wearing a "boob tube" or something similar really makes me sad.

I think this issue also has some bearing on a previous thread about youngsters wanting to lose weight.They become too conscious about body image when they dress in a "grown -up" fashion.Sadly peer pressure is partly to blame among older children but little dots still in nappies are dressed by parents who therefore control what they wear.Also in "our day" we didn't have the CHOICE of clothes that are available today.We aspired to look like our Mums who had probably gone through the austerity of wartime.

Gone are the days of hand-knitted cardies for little ones.In my experience Mums just don't want them.In fact I knitted a cardigan for my GD a year or so ago and I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when my DD said it was just the thing for the said DD to wear when she had to dress as an evacuee!!!!!!

[Granny Goggins]

My grandbabies wore all the little cardys and matinee jackets I made,but heaven forbid Granny gave them home knits now. I also made their shawls-never ever again,took months,but they have been kept as heirlooms.

[GrannyJules]

I knitted a pram blanket for Rhys, yes and it was finished before he was born, well before he came home, at least.
It grew so much when I washed it, but it is now the napping blanket. When Rhys gets covered with it he knows I mean "sleep time".
It wouldn't see the light of day if it went home to DD's

[twinnana]

and what about bras for little girls who have no bust.

[Mishap]

I too feel uncomfortable about what some youngsters, especially girls, are wearing.
It starts very young - you can by denim jeans for newborns - and jolly uncomfortable they look too!
I went to a show at the local village primary and felt quite disturbed by a group of pre-adolescent girls with their wee breastbuds cavorting about to pop music in skimpy boob tubes in front of the parents - didn't like that at all, and it turned out afterwards that I was not alone.

[Enid]

I remember having a battle royal about six years ago with a VERY difficult 11 year old. It was about ten minutes after lessons had ended and the children dismissed when I found Amunra (yes, really) in the cloakroom struggling out of her uniform, (navy track bottoms and white tee shirt) and pulling on a pair of red and black crotchless knickers in red and black. I was horrified and ordered her to get back into uniform ASAP.
My word. Was I taken to the cleaners by the mother. A most unpleasant experience.
The girl gave birth last year at 15.
What chances for that little one?

[tizzyb]

I missed this thread, must have been in Wales. My dil and son said that baby Sadie would not wear girly stuff and dressed her in combats and jeans from day 1. Someone gave them a whole bin bag of designer baby wear and she now has pretty little girl clothes (I have always bought her pretty stuff). In fact when I looked after her a few weeks ago she insisted on putting on a shiny flowery mac and when I tried to take it off her (as we were inside) she cried. I left it on.

I honestly don't think Sadie baby will be dressing in anything risque as Daddy has said she cannot wear make up until she is at least 23 and as for boys, well I think she might be in her forties before he allows that ..............or so he thinks!

[Grandma Honeybee]

I totally agree - when I was primary teaching I couldn't believe the photographs of my 8 year olds wearing spahetti strap black dresses. I now make hand smocked traditional childrens clothes to order and it is often the little girls that fall in love with them whilst some of their mothers are heard to say "but you'll never wear it". I have found that if the child likes the dress, they will wear it but can be very picky about what their mothers choose for them to wear. Thank goodness there are still quite a lot of mums who want to dress their litte girls as little girls!