Skinny pants: new fashion trend for babies too?

Well...since my daughter wears size 4 slim with the adjustable waist band, I'm kind of okay with the skinny pants for her!

Not for me, though!

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I really don't see the big market for adult skinny jeans. I mean come on, how many women are built like the girls that advertise them? Maybe like 5% of the population, I feel bad for the ones that are in denial and just not look right in them. I know I will NEVER look good in skinny pants, but I know better than to even try it. I don't think I'd get these for a baby or toddler either, but who knows they might be cute.

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My daughter wears cotton diapers, which are a bit thicker than the disposable counterparts, therefore I think we will have a problem witgh "skinny pants" getting over her diapered rear :-) As for me, I have just come to terms with the low waisted jeans (paired with long shirts) I doubt I will be sporting any jeans with the word skinny in them unless they promise to make my post-baby body look skinny without squeezing me to death!

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Couple this with the sign I saw over some little girls shirts at Target this weekend... In giant letters "Flirty" with pictures of 10-year-old girls with shiny lip gloss and mascara-y lashes and such... WHAT?

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, flirty is: "To make playfully romantic or sexual overtures." Call me crazy, but I don't want my child to want this shirt because it's flirty.

Thank God I have a boy. I don't know how I'd deal with all this stuff. Give me legos over those skanky bratz dolls any day. Give me faded old jeans and plain T-shirts over skinny jeans any day.

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I am actually glad to see this, as my daughter takes after her biological father and my mother, and is a stick figure. Normal pants don't fit her, and I find I'm either buying 2-3Ts for my 4 year old, which end up being too short, or 4Ts which are long enough but too wide, and fall off her hips. It's hard to find "slim fit" for toddlers/preschoolers, and she needs a slimmer cut of pants!

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I have to say that I'm in the "thank goodness" camp here because it seems to me that kids' trousers have followed the adult trend and, while remaining the same posted size, have been getting wider. I have an impossible time finding my son trousers which are the right length, and yet also will not slide right off of his bottom. And that is his *diapered* bottom! What we'll do once he hits the underwear stage I can't even begin to imagine. Are the "skinny pants" perhaps just a step back to more normal waist sizes?

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I like that the skinny jeans have come back. Basically they are just straight legs! I never really cared for that bell bottom look. I think maybe it may give some people the incentive to lose weight also, we are the fattest country in the world but everyone gets upset over some people being skinny and able to wear them. Maybe people should be more concerned about the health issues involved in being overweight adn trying to better themselves than about things like skinny jeans hurting their feelings. If your thin enough to wear them already, good for you!!! I am 37 years old with three kids, my last one turning 1 next week and I will definitely be wearing them. It has given me incentive to lose my last 5 pounds of baby weight!

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For me no skinny pants but for my 9 year old granddaughter they would be great if they would fit her legs! She has a tiny waist but her legs are muscular from 2 years of tae kwon do training.

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I personally never cared for the "skinny pants"for myself. But! I know that the tapered leg look is much better because the waist has to be a better fit! NO MORE BOXERS AND THONG TOPS SHOWING! I'm not sure about other mothers out there, but everytime I see a teenager that has their pants baggin' off their hips I want to give them a super weggie and tell them to keep their pants up! I much prefer seeing teens wearing their pants too tight vs. way to baggy!Why can't the fashon industry try to figure out that when clothes fit, they actually fit and aren't "skinny" or baggy! Oui!
As for skinny pants for babies.....has anyone in the fashon industry really tried to dress a squirmy 1 year old! Or a toddler that won't stand still? HELLO! It's hard enough to get 'em in the pants that do fit! Much less pants that are tighter on the legs! LOL!

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I am also in the thank goodness arena. Again, post baby, forget it for mom, but my 6 year old is rather short for her age, and VERY slim. She is an active child, who will only wear jeans, and she is constantly losing them. There are so many pants without belt loops, and the belts that you do find, are for older kids, so we still end up cutting them almost in half, which makes everything bulky on her as well as cumbersome when she's waited to long to get to a rest room. Even my oldest daughter, who is only 10 is also slim and I am so glad that we were finally able to purchase slim jeans for her when she finally hit the size 7. I say horray!! for all those moms who won't have to struggle with belts or just trying to find a 4T pair of pants with beltloops for their unusually short or thin children!!

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One word - UGLY.

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The women and girls in my family are pear shaped and will never wear skinny jeans no matter how hard the fashion industry tries to push them.. Give me mid rise(stretch denim) waist with a boot bottom any day to flatter a pear shape figure...Skinny jeans are packed away with my spandex leggings in my 1980's box-LOL

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I don't have a problem with these pants for a young child.Now for mom, thats a different story.But being a mom of two very different kiddos, I am happy to see these jeans.My son is 4 but needs a 2T waist and a 4 length.My daughter on the other hand wouldn't be able to get 1 leg in those jeans, let alone get them over her diaper.Theres a market for everything and I think the only reason people may take issue with these jeans are due to it's name.If they were tapered leg pants there wouldn't be much attention to them.Often times the word "skinny" kinda implies not looking healthy or dieting.However, there are skinny kids out there( my son included) and he needs these jeans.As I see it theres no difference with these jeans than with the other jeans that may be long,short,husky,or loose fit.It's just no big deal to me other than the fact that my son will finally have the right fit for his pants.

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Oh, Yes... The skinny pants. The fond memories of when I was in 8th grade and looked so good... and in high school skinny pants with fat bunched up socks that coordinated with your outfit. Those were the days... But thank God for Boot Cut and Flare pants! Comfort that's the way to go for this girl!

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Who cares? Clothes dont matter..its how you raise them.

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The trend here in the Philadelphia area seems to be the young teenage boys buying girls pants for this exact reason. The tighter, the better. While school-clothes shopping last week, I can't tell you how many young boys I saw picking from the girls section!
Maybe I am getting old, but I really think a lot of the clothes out there now are way too sexy and a bit offensive for these kids. It's no wonder the kids are having sex younger and younger. It also may be part of the reason why more and more teachers and coaches are being arrested every day. It's too much temptation all around.

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I think it's the name, skinny. yes, we are a fat country but, we have far too many people with eating disorders. do we need baby clothes called skinny? to imply a baby should be or want to be skinny is so ridiculous. let a baby be normal. let's try teaching children normal not overweight or to obsess about weight and become anorexic.

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I can't imagine what sort of comfort issue may be with these skinny jeans on a baby. Their tender legs may not be feeling too good in skin tight denim.
Also, do we want the label skinnny to be associated with our kids growing time? The social pressure in secondary school is tremendous for young girls to be skinny, and eating disorders are present. I prefer healthy to skinny any day of the week!

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I think these would affect a baby's ability to crawl and move freely - the legs look too constricting. I don't like the idea of jeans or denim for babies in general. I kept my son in soft gymboree type clothes. Kids need to move and be comformtable and who wants to take a nap in a pair of stiff jeans!!

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"skinny" jeans for tots will only reinforce our culture's already dangerous focus on dieting that began in the '80s when these pants became fashionable the first time around. I hated them back then (when I was thin enough to wear them) and I will definitely not waste money on them now, for myself, my children, or my grandchildren.

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