Shop remove padded bikini tops for 7 year olds from shelves

[DallasApple]

Not to go on and on about the safety issue..LOL!! But the picture of the little boy in stripes? Look at his skin thats exposed?..He's what about 3 years old? he is alabaster white..I can gaurantee you he has had very limted sun exposure and I assume even then kept covered in sunscreen for any activity even if it was not an activity that involved much sun exposure.

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Dallas

 

[DallasApple]

I honestly can't find a pic that hasn't got hyperbolic slogans on it, so here are what I can find.

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Thats just ridiculous..

I cant imagine seeing a 7 year old or even an older child wearing something like that..I would think the parents were nuts.

I thought it was bad when an aquaitence of mine let her daughter who was maybe 9 wear a Hooters t-shirt and short silky shorts.

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Dallas

 

[Buttercup]

I honestly can't find a pic that hasn't got hyperbolic slogans on it, so here are what I can find.

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That is ridiculous and it's a good thing they were pulled..

Why don't they make penis enhanced swimming trunks for boys with a removable weenie to play fair?

 

[monta]

Not to go on and on about the safety issue..LOL!! But the picture of the little boy in stripes? Look at his skin thats exposed?..He's what about 3 years old? he is alabaster white..I can gaurantee you he has had very limted sun exposure and I assume even then kept covered in sunscreen for any activity even if it was not an activity that involved much sun exposure.

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Dallas

I think we have to try and reprogram ourselves away from the idea that the coppertone Jodie foster image is healthy. The blonde kids with very fair skin will fry up before you can get the first coat on them :biglaugh:

 

[Father Heathen]

As if our culture already didn't warp kids minds enough.

 

[monta]

The marketing is the thing, they could have sold the bikinis with just the size and no age on them.

 

[DallasApple]

The marketing is the thing, they could have sold the bikinis with just the size and no age on them.

But it would be the same difference..How many adult women who might be interested in padding..Be shopping in the little girls dept looking for a childrens size 6 bikini?

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Dallas

 

[monta]

But it would be the same difference..How many adult women who might be interested in padding..Be shopping in the little girls dept looking for a childrens size 6 bikini?

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Dallas

I have a friend from Malaysia that is very slight and about 4ft 9'', she has to shop in the kids dept.

 

[Buttercup]

The marketing is the thing, they could have sold the bikinis with just the size and no age on them.

True. If there had been no advertising I doubt the uproar would have taken place. Mom's wouldn't have liked the suits but the world probably wouldn't hear of it. Marketing is a good thing sometimes.

 

[DallasApple]

I think we have to try and reprogram ourselves away from the idea that the coppertone Jodie foster image is healthy. The blonde kids with very fair skin will fry up before you can get the first coat on them :biglaugh:

Well Im not blond..Im brunette but very fair..Adn I did burn up..and it was sad because I was "ashamed" of how white I was..I thought it was ugly...And I had freckles on top of that which I also hated and thought were ugly and they actually of course came out and spread more when I was in the sun.

Because I grew up in the "Coppertone" age..And commercials running when I was early and mid teen for "deep dark tropical" tans..Sexy tanned women in the jungle..

And so therefore I tried deliberately to get a tan..And I burned to lobster red..with "highligted" freckles..then would peel like I was a molting animal..(not jungle sexy tan)...

It didnt help that my sister..(who is blond) had olive skin..could lay out the sun for 45 minutes a day for 3 or 4 days and be glowing silky tan...

And the comments.."oh my God your so pale..you need to get out in the sun".

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Dallas

 

[monta]

Well Im not blond..Im brunette but very fair..Adn I did burn up..and it was sad because I was "ashamed" of how white I was..I thought it was ugly...And I had freckles on top of that which I also hated and thought were ugly and they actually of course came out and spread more when I was in the sun.

Because I grew up in the "Coppertone" age..And commercials running when I was early and mid teen for "deep dark tropical" tans..Sexy tanned women in the jungle..

And so therefore I tried deliberately to get a tan..And I burned to lobster red..with "highligted" freckles..then would peel like I was a molting animal..(not jungle sexy tan)...

It didnt help that my sister..(who is blond) had olive skin..could lay out the sun for 45 minutes a day for 3 or 4 days and be glowing silky tan...

And the comments.."oh my God your so pale..you need to get out in the sun".

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Dallas

I am at least as pale as you (going by your pics), never mind we can always go orange

 

[DallasApple]

I have a friend from Malaysia that is very slight and about 4ft 9'', she has to shop in the kids dept.

But thats not the norm..And besides that ..your average 7 year old is smaller than that..

Actually I could wear childrens size 14 ...When I weighed a little less than now.At 5' 2 and 105 lbs..But there is a difference between that and little "little" girls.

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Dallas

 

[DallasApple]

I am at least as pale as you (going by your pics), never mind we can always go orange

Oh yeah..Ive tried and tried "orange"..Except I was orange with "streaks".

I have to settle for white or "pink" now.If I could go back I would do what I do now and stay in the shade..And beleived my husband when he told me that he loved my milky skin..Im sure I would have less "spots' now..

Actually I look at the inside of my arm..and get mad at myself the that rest of my body could be closer to that had I not tried to change myself to the societal standard of beauty as it pertained to women and bronzness.

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Dallas

 

[DallasApple]

I am at least as pale as you (going by your pics), never mind we can always go orange

Did you ever put that stuff on and have a totally different color face than your neck(except for the orange streaks running down your neck) and it looked like you were wearing thick coat of covergirl orange base except you couldnt get it off?

Also did you ever put that suff on your chest and stomach and then go in the heat and it melted and slid off your skin from your sweat dissolving it and it stained your clothes and ruined them?..Or you had an itch and you scratched it and the stuff came off and left a line where you scratched as well as you had "tanned' under neath your fingenails?

Also did you ever put that stuff on your legs..and then later (after it absorbed) you shaved your legs and in my case I only shave my bottom part of my legs..And had "tan " upper legs and white as snow lower legs because basically you shaved your tan off?

I did.

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Dallas

 

[Circle_One]

I understand Monta and I agree if you are trying to avoid getting badly burned at a beach or in the pool from long tme of exposure in obviously hot climates..that the less area you have ot cover in sunscreem the easier ...

What Im saying is for most of us that is not where we get 99% of our sun exposure..You do NOT have to get burned to be at risk for skin cancer..and it doesnt have to be in a hot climte.

Its a matter of how often you are exposed to the sun period and any part of your body being exposed..

I mean add up how many hours over a life time sun exposure is at a beach or in a pool in a bathing suit versus how many hours in a life time sun exposure is from every other time we are outside for any reason ...

I mean would that little girl wear long sleeve shirt and long pants in 90 degree weather to go play in the park for an hour? Say twice a week for 52 weeks a year ?Your talking righ there 104 hours a year shes in the sun just with that one example....

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Dallas

Just thought that I'd throw my two cents in here, per the bolded.

I don't leave the house without putting on sunblock. Ever. Neither does my son. We Jaguars are far too translucent to take chances.

But I think what Monta's trying to say is that when we think sun, and tanning, and burning, we think the beach; hence the reference. One doesn't go to work in a bikini top, unless one is a stripper, so normal times of the day, when one is not at the beach, are not really in question here, because the OP was regarding bikini tops.

 

[monta]

But thats not the norm..And besides that ..your average 7 year old is smaller than that..

Actually I could wear childrens size 14 ...When I weighed a little less than now.At 5' 2 and 105 lbs..But there is a difference between that and little "little" girls.

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Dallas

There are quite a few Asian people living here, it seems to be quite normal for them to be quite slim.

 

[DallasApple]

There are quite a few Asian people living here, it seems to be quite normal for them to be quite slim.

I understand that..Monta I was at one point due to a medication I had to take about 88lbs at 5'2..That is extremely thin ..But I could wear a size 1 in the juniors dept.Sure I could have worn a 12 or 14 in the girls/children area..

But a size 6 or 7 childrens is for someone around 50 or 60 lbs...And I dont think I know any grown women that are that small..And a size 6 or 7 though is about the 'norm" for a 6 or 7 year old child.

The childrens/girls dept goes up usually to a size 16..Many petite women could fit in that ..But they could also wear an equivelant of that in the womens petite dept in a size 2 or 4.

It goes the other way too..Some children are bigger than what you can find in the largest size in the childrens dept..

What Im saying if its true they were marketign towards 7 year olds..The sizes would have to be offered so small that a grown women that would possibly be able to fit in it would be such a small % that it would be obvious they were marketing to very young girls..

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Dallas

 

[monta]

I understand that..Monta I was at one point due to a medication I had to take about 88lbs at 5'2..That is extremely thin ..But I could wear a size 1 in the juniors dept.Sure I could have worn a 12 or 14 in the girls/children area..

But a size 6 or 7 childrens is for someone around 50 or 60 lbs...And I dont think I know any grown women that are that small..And a size 6 or 7 though is about the 'norm" for a 6 or 7 year old child.

The childrens/girls dept goes up usually to a size 16..Many petite women could fit in that ..But they could also wear an equivelant of that in the womens petite dept in a size 2 or 4.

It goes the other way too..Some children are bigger than what you can find in the largest size in the childrens dept..

What Im saying if its true they were marketign towards 7 year olds..The sizes would have to be offered so small that a grown women would possibly be able to fit in it would be such a small % that it woudl be obvious they were marketign to very young girls..

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Dallas

I am not trying to be contrary, but I don't mean that they are just thin, but they have very girlish frames. The items themselves don't bother me, but I do think putting 7-8 years on them is distasteful.

 

[DallasApple]

I am not trying to be contrary, but I don't mean that they are just thin, but they have very girlish frames. The items themselves don't bother me, but I do think putting 7-8 years on them is distasteful.

The items themselves dont bother me either and I as well am not trying to be contrary...

But to me it would be like selling 4 inch stilletto heals in the childrens shoe dept..and carrying them in sizes that would fit a very young child..of 7 or 8 years old..And then saying well some adult women have very unusually small feet..

IOW I would automatically knwo they were marketing towards children based on the sizes they offere and the fact they carried it in the childrens dept..

If you want to market towards grown women with very (extremely) small frames why not offer those sizes in the speciatly dept called "petite"?

I mean what if they started selling crotchless panties in the childrens dept and just said they offerned them in sizes so small it would fit the average 7 year old ?But its O.K becuase they only advertised the sizes and some adult women could fit in them?

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Dallas

 

[DallasApple]

But I think what Monta's trying to say is that when we think sun, and tanning, and burning, we think the beach; hence the reference. One doesn't go to work in a bikini top, unless one is a stripper, so normal times of the day, when one is not at the beach, are not really in question here, because the OP was regarding bikini tops.

I understand that and thats actually what I was trying to point out..I must be befuddled today because im coming across all wrong..

What I was trying ot say is if girls need to wear tops at ALL times..and its for safety from the sun..then so should boys..

IOW parents would be O.K with slathering their boy with sunscreen and letting him enjoy going topless in the heat and sun and to swim etc...

The little girl has to keep her top on..and I do not buy that its for safety from sun exposure.

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Dallas