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You're taking your 10-year-old daughter to the beach. Sunscreen? Check. Beach blanket? Check. Pail and shovel for building sandcastles? Check. Fake boobies?
Whaaat?
Want to get a head start on puberty? The folks at Abercrombie & Fitch can help. The New York Daily News reports they're offering padded bikini tops for prepubescent girls.
Your kid could be flatter than Fargo, N.D., but she'll be keeping up the Kardashians with the company's latest line of swimwear. Not everyone likes the idea.
"You should be ashamed!" one critic posts on the company's website, the Daily News reports. "Remove the suits from the stores!"
"Shame on you for sexualizing small children," another commenter writes. "In a world where parents work hard to keep their children safe, you go and make little girls look like they have breasts? Perverts."
Abercrombie & Fitch also offers unpadded bikini tops for girls who don't want to work their way through fourth grade at Hooters. However, this is not the first time the company has drawn fire for tarting up tweens. In 2002, the company offered thongs to the My Little Pony crowd.
Executives at Abercrombie & Fitch, who aren't talking to the media, should perhaps take a clue from Primark, a British clothing retailer that tried to sell padded bikini tops to little girls last year.
The London Daily Telegraph reports the firm dropped the line after members of Parliament, including British Prime Minister David Cameron, pitched walleyed fits over the concept.
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ReaderComments (Page 5 of 12)
3-28-2011 @ 3:36PM
Darrell Elmore said...When I was a kid Abercrombie & Fitch sold high end sporting gear with an emphasis on fly fishing. Years later Eddie Baurer sold high tech camping and hiking items. Both were ambushed by big business who turned them into mall outliets for poor quaility "sporting clothes" known mostly for their highly sexually charged ads and cheap stuff sporting their company names. Skinny boys with styled hair, tattoos, skinnier girls with too much make up and bodies resembling anorexic pre-pubescent kids with breast implants featured on their ads. Good products gone bad and good companies gone worse
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3-28-2011 @ 3:37PM
Nancy said...What next AF , are you going to start selling rubber crotch inserts to make little girls look like they have big camel toes bulging thu their bikini bottoms ? Mexican girls will love them.
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3-28-2011 @ 3:42PM
trbilbo said...It is ALL about personal choice..personal responsibility.
Censor one and you censor all.
It should be YOUR choice to buy a padded suit for your child.... or a gun.... or medical insurance... or a gas guzzler....
as long as you take resposibility for YOUR OWN choices and actions.
Keep the government..controls, regulations and legislation LIMITED to keeping us safe from foreign interests.
And keep us safe from having OTHERS like many here for their beliefs on others.
Raised my four kids.... 2 girls, 2 boys.... 2 engineers, a designer and lawyer.... with NO ONE's input.... and all four are happily married, successful, degreed and very much a family.
It CAN be done...
Just live your own life... do no harm....leave others to live theirs... as THEY chose... and teach your kids the value of living their own lives.... wh.at has value in life.
And it sure ins't these stupid blogs on meaningless topics.
Step away from your computers and actually talk to someone today.
Stop describing life and what it should be for everyone... GO live it today!
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3-28-2011 @ 3:52PM
ziaaaaaaaaa said...You're educated? LOL What happened to spelling and grammar 101?
Stereotyping Italians, (or any other race for that matter) is simply ignorant.
You're a nothing more than a hostile racists.
3-28-2011 @ 3:53PM
ziaaaaaaaaa said...Oops....sorry, that was meant for Jake who commented below.
3-28-2011 @ 3:44PM
Mitchell said...To Sonya,
You're very ignorant!!! Your comment was unnecessary. You have lot's of hate in you. Will pray for you.
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3-28-2011 @ 3:43PM
Mitchell said...Like I mention earlier, so IGNORANT Sonya!!!!!
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3-28-2011 @ 3:42PM
ziaaaaaaaaa said...YaY Jake and Sonya for making this about race. You're both clearly ignorant!!!
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3-30-2011 @ 12:22PM
Steve said...Abercrombie & Fitch USED to be an exclusive and expensive store. They became prostitutes and trashed the name years ago, so I'm not surprised by anything they do. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't come out with bathing suits for pre-teen boys that padded the genital area to apper to be some kind of manly "bulge" on theory it its intended protect against testicular "mishaps". They could call it the "Bulge Boy". I wonder what the reaction to that would be!
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3-28-2011 @ 3:45PM
Jake said...After this post i will ignore you seeing as you are uneducated my family are legal polish immagrants we came here due to a world war. If you read history the italians came here with crime seeing as you have no knowledge of history the Italian Mafia was in america and is Italian hmm the mexican community comes to america legally in the majority there are few that actually come illegally the media just blows it out of the water and it is not mexicans or immagrants that cause crime it is people like you who live by media and stereotypes you should maby try living by being a leader not just a follower in the army of the blind leading the blind congradulations you are the biggest loser but its ok because people like you are forgotten and people like me change the world learn to tolerate people and maby you would like african americans too Freaking racists now as i said i am done commenting you you have already gotten more letters than you diserve heil hitler dummy
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3-28-2011 @ 3:56PM
ziaaaaaaaaa said...You're educated? LOL What happened to spelling and grammar 101?
Stereotyping Italians, (or any other race for that matter) is simply ignorant.
You're a nothing more than a hostile racists.
3-28-2011 @ 3:46PM
bluemeanies said...are people really so stupid that they don't see what's going on? a&f deliberatley does something shocking & outrageous so that shocked & outraged parents can scream the name abercrombie & fitch at the top of their lungs for the next 4 weeks. can we say "publicity, anyone"?
duh.
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3-28-2011 @ 3:46PM
Maryellen said...Have you seen the stuff at Gilly Hicks - the bathing suit tops are the same as at A and F. Also what bothers me the same are the porno magazines they have all over the store but especially in the dressing room area. I asked them who they were appealing to and was told the teen and pre teen group. I told them I would never bring my grands in. Check it out
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3-28-2011 @ 3:52PM
SIMPLY ME said...ANY MOTHER WHO BUYS THESE BRA BIKINIS FOR THEIR LITTLE 7 YR OLD GIRLS SHOULD BE REPORTED FOR CHILD ENDANGERMENT AND ABUSE TO THE CHILD WELFARE DEPARTMENT AFTER THAT ENTER INTO A MENTAL EVALUATION PROGRAM AND SAFE CHILD PARANTING. Hey stupid moron mothers who buy these the pedophiles are watching and waiting.
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3-28-2011 @ 5:52PM
CollegeRULES said...That is ignorant. The pedos will check out your kid with or with out the swim suit.
3-28-2011 @ 4:06PM
Andrew said...We let the homosexuals in.
NOw the pedophiles want in too.
Is there a limit to Americas debauchery?
America is getting what it deserves
and soon the judgment of God will follow.
Dont be surprised when more terrorist attacks occur.
Americans have allowed prayer out of school
they have alloweed Godless atheists to run things
and now they want to cry about their daughters being sexualized?
Americas lust knows no bounds and now your daughters are nothing more than sex objects. We are getting as we deserve.
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3-28-2011 @ 5:36PM
kyle said...athiests to run things? Im pretty sure a lot of the people upset about the bras ARE athiests.... religion has nothing to do with it. Plus if ur mad about athiests in power why dont you try to earn some power for yourself. All a and f are trying to to is get money and your calling them podophials...how about business men?
3-28-2011 @ 4:01PM
Addison DeWitt said...They'll be sexualizing boys next - with padding in the crotch.
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3-28-2011 @ 4:02PM
Vette said...And the parents who purchase this will be the first one to file a lawsuit when their daughter is "raped" at an early age. Our society has gone to hell in a handbag!!!
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4-25-2011 @ 10:22AM
broadwaystaronfilm said...Nice to know that we are still blaming the victim. I'll help you out: the only person to blame for rape is the rapist. A person (no matter what they are wearing) is not at fault. Rape occurs no matter what the person is wearing.