Outgrowing Hanna Andersson . . . what now?

[Anonymous]

Remember when you were her age. Maybe its been a while. Girls are mean to others especially about what they look like. My mother is raising my neice and she has had to make some adjustments to what is okay and not okay.

I will say Justice has some great stuff. Also target can to. The girl is 11 and can wear some childrens place too. She use to only wear dresses and skirts from mostly Gymboree but times have changed and she has grown. Personally the day my mom has to drag herself into american eagle and those other stores are gonna kill her.

Luckly I was a much easier as a teen. I was into stuff not so hip stuff and couldn't care less if someone said something mean to me.

[Anonymous]

Move her to private school.

[Anonymous]

kids are just as mean if not meaner at private schools. They find other things to brag about even if they are in uniforms. What kind of underclothes they have, what they wear on the weekend and so forth. Unless your at a school where they have to wear a certain brand of uniform there are some kids who will have the POSH uniforms and ones who have the run of the mill.

[Anonymous]

What about Jcrew? They have the Crewcuts line for kids. I think it goes to 12 maybe?

[Anonymous]

Problem with JCrew/ Crewcuts is that if you ask the GIRL, she won't like it. She wants to wear the labels the other girls are wearing (sad commentary that may be). So, you can dress her to the nines in labels that mean something to adults everywhere, but if she hates it, she's not going to wear it. Or if she does, it will be after much whining, pouting, and generally not making it worth the battle...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:kids are just as mean if not meaner at private schools. They find other things to brag about even if they are in uniforms. What kind of underclothes they have, what they wear on the weekend and so forth. Unless your at a school where they have to wear a certain brand of uniform there are some kids who will have the POSH uniforms and ones who have the run of the mill.

True BUT most importantly, the trashy element is missing. Sure a few may dress like sluts but most will not and will look down on the ones who do. It may ramp up the money outlay/lable factor but it sounds like OP cares about better lables anyway and that is where the focus of the private school girls tends to be rather than looking like a "hoochie mama" (to quite previous posters).

[Anonymous]

Problem with JCrew/ Crewcuts is that if you ask the GIRL, she won't like it. She wants to wear the labels the other girls are wearing (sad commentary that may be). So, you can dress her to the nines in labels that mean something to adults everywhere, but if she hates it, she's not going to wear it. Or if she does, it will be after much whining, pouting, and generally not making it worth the battle...

I really think this comes down to peer group. If you took a 10 yr old girl, put her in solitary confinement for a year, and then presented her with JCrewCuts or MiniBoden upon her release, she would love to wear these brands.

If you took the same girl out of solitary confinement and dropped her into whatever school is closest to the Wheaton mall (where I enjoy watching the 9 yr old mini hoochie mamas out on school nights at 10 pm), then sure, she might want to wear sexy camis and low cut jeans like them.

And, same girl, but instead of being in solitary confinement for a year, she gets to hang at the Chevy Chase Country Club with all of its 10 yr old members, then she will very much enjoy wearing JCrewCuts and it will not occur to her to ask for thong panties and all the neon crap I see at Wheaton mall.

[Anonymous]

I'm surprised that you shop at the Wheaton mall given your opinions about the attire of the people there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Problem with JCrew/ Crewcuts is that if you ask the GIRL, she won't like it. She wants to wear the labels the other girls are wearing (sad commentary that may be). So, you can dress her to the nines in labels that mean something to adults everywhere, but if she hates it, she's not going to wear it. Or if she does, it will be after much whining, pouting, and generally not making it worth the battle...

I really think this comes down to peer group. If you took a 10 yr old girl, put her in solitary confinement for a year, and then presented her with JCrewCuts or MiniBoden upon her release, she would love to wear these brands.

If you took the same girl out of solitary confinement and dropped her into whatever school is closest to the Wheaton mall (where I enjoy watching the 9 yr old mini hoochie mamas out on school nights at 10 pm), then sure, she might want to wear sexy camis and low cut jeans like them.

And, same girl, but instead of being in solitary confinement for a year, she gets to hang at the Chevy Chase Country Club with all of its 10 yr old members, then she will very much enjoy wearing JCrewCuts and it will not occur to her to ask for thong panties and all the neon crap I see at Wheaton mall.

Well, I live in one of the most affluent counties in the nation, and my dd goes to a suburban school where most of the kids' parents live in McMansions and they are STILL all sporting Abercrombie, which I consider to be hoochie-wear. So, I'm not sure that girls who hang out at a CC are any less likely to be influenced by the media images of thin/hot/sexy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Problem with JCrew/ Crewcuts is that if you ask the GIRL, she won't like it. She wants to wear the labels the other girls are wearing (sad commentary that may be). So, you can dress her to the nines in labels that mean something to adults everywhere, but if she hates it, she's not going to wear it. Or if she does, it will be after much whining, pouting, and generally not making it worth the battle...

I really think this comes down to peer group. If you took a 10 yr old girl, put her in solitary confinement for a year, and then presented her with JCrewCuts or MiniBoden upon her release, she would love to wear these brands.

If you took the same girl out of solitary confinement and dropped her into whatever school is closest to the Wheaton mall (where I enjoy watching the 9 yr old mini hoochie mamas out on school nights at 10 pm), then sure, she might want to wear sexy camis and low cut jeans like them.

And, same girl, but instead of being in solitary confinement for a year, she gets to hang at the Chevy Chase Country Club with all of its 10 yr old members, then she will very much enjoy wearing JCrewCuts and it will not occur to her to ask for thong panties and all the neon crap I see at Wheaton mall.

Well, I live in one of the most affluent counties in the nation, and my dd goes to a suburban school where most of the kids' parents live in McMansions and they are STILL all sporting Abercrombie, which I consider to be hoochie-wear. So, I'm not sure that girls who hang out at a CC are any less likely to be influenced by the media images of thin/hot/sexy.

Yeah, but there are dress codes at the clubs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Problem with JCrew/ Crewcuts is that if you ask the GIRL, she won't like it. She wants to wear the labels the other girls are wearing (sad commentary that may be). So, you can dress her to the nines in labels that mean something to adults everywhere, but if she hates it, she's not going to wear it. Or if she does, it will be after much whining, pouting, and generally not making it worth the battle...

I really think this comes down to peer group. If you took a 10 yr old girl, put her in solitary confinement for a year, and then presented her with JCrewCuts or MiniBoden upon her release, she would love to wear these brands.

If you took the same girl out of solitary confinement and dropped her into whatever school is closest to the Wheaton mall (where I enjoy watching the 9 yr old mini hoochie mamas out on school nights at 10 pm), then sure, she might want to wear sexy camis and low cut jeans like them.

And, same girl, but instead of being in solitary confinement for a year, she gets to hang at the Chevy Chase Country Club with all of its 10 yr old members, then she will very much enjoy wearing JCrewCuts and it will not occur to her to ask for thong panties and all the neon crap I see at Wheaton mall.

Well, I live in one of the most affluent counties in the nation, and my dd goes to a suburban school where most of the kids' parents live in McMansions and they are STILL all sporting Abercrombie, which I consider to be hoochie-wear. So, I'm not sure that girls who hang out at a CC are any less likely to be influenced by the media images of thin/hot/sexy.

Yeah, but there are dress codes at the clubs.

And, unfortunately, people who live in wealthy suburban McMansions often have some of the cheesiest and sleeziest dressing daughters around because their newly rich parents have not taught them proper values or behavior but have provided them with credit cards and examples of crass materialism and grandiose spending habits. - from one who grew up in one of the most affluent suburbs overgrown with McManisons

[Anonymous]

Zara
Next (online)
Olive Juice (some items for that age are appropriate)
Garnet Hill (you can tell their clothes from a mile away though)