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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Either her body is changing and she is self conscious about it so she’s wearing sweatshirts - to hide budding breasts, to hide cutting/self harm, or to hide an eating disorder. She is clinging to controlling her clothes because it’s something she CAN control. If you take this away, she may shift to controlling food and end up with an ED.

If it’s brands and materialism, she’s already shown you that she can wear a minimal capsule wardrobe without complaining. Instead of being a scold about $78 Lulu shorts, consider giving her a set budget and tell her she needs to get x number of tops and bottoms within that total amount.

To all the people saying they would not indulge this pickiness -[b] don’t any of you remember what it is like to be an 11-14 yr old girl? [/b]Your body is changing. Your friend dynamics are changing. Both teen boys and adult men start making sexual comments to you. Maybe you want to hide or maybe you want to flaunt your newfound super power. But most of all you want to find yourself, separate from your parents, and fit in at school. Can you possibly indulge a tween girl in some sartorial support to arm her against the emotional turmoil in her brain? I don’t think it’s fair to expect a tween to act like an adult with solid self confidence. [/quote]

Yes, and the brand conscious girls were the mean girls. I definitely want my DD to be excluded from THAT group.[/quote]

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