Things like this make me glad I have a boy.

I no longer shop for my neices, other than taking my mom. It is just too hard to find stuff for them. J is going to be 13 and H is going to be 10, both in October. They are built totally different. Now they are beginning to get fashion concious (as much as their sheltered lives allow). I get them Target or Kmart cards and then a gift and they are thrilled.

Boy is easy. If it fits he will wear it.

I'll have to second the I'm glad I have a boy at times like these! He prefers shorts or sweats. Of course like he'll wear shorts all winter if I let him!

I've seen the girls clothes getting so racy, it's sad for the younger ones. I can't imagine trying to shop for a girl. I know I would spend a lot more money than I have to now!

But those are actual teens. Tweens are girls between 9 and 11.

You're right and, as a mom of two girls who were tweens not that long ago, I'm aware of the challenges. (My daughters are now 15 and 17.) The examples I chose were teen stars who set fashion trends for tweens of their era. Hilary Duff and her Duff Stuff and the Olsen Twins and their merch are much older than the tweens to whom they market.

This goes back at least to the 1950s. In the 1960s, I went to the Beatles' last concert, Candlestick Stadium, San Francisco. Want to know what I wore: a tight white sweater, almost midrifted and hip hugger bell bottoms (red with giant white polka dots). I wanted to look as Carnaby Street as possible. I was 9 and no more precocious than the average 9 year old in my neighborhood.

Icky poo, I saw a girl with her mom in court today that wore sweats... with the word "delish" on her arse. And she was prolly 11-12.

Gross.

I saw a lady in a Boston grocery store with sweats that said "Baby Phat" on her butt. But because her butt seemed to be hungry, all I could see was "Ba at".
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