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[quote=Anonymous]My own kid is a bit younger but I know two 3rd graders who are obsessed with crop tops. Like OP has said, it's not about being sexy or attracting boys (they could care less), there is just something about the look that they like. One of them is allowed to wear them if she buys them with her own allowance money, which means she has one such shirt and wears it all the time except to school where she has a uniform. The parents despair a bit but they've set their boundary and are holding it -- she has the one shirt and she's going to wear it into the ground. I know that shirt is "in the wash" a lot, lol.

The other one has severe midriff tops bought for her during a shopping trip with her grandmother (Nana will give GD anything she asks for, it is her Nana strategy for being loved). I am aware that these shirts are currently the subject of a lot of family squabbles, and the girl's mother would very much like to confiscate them but there is disagreement with her father, who thinks they are fine if only worn at home (but is also not involved in the arguments when their DD wants to wear them outside the house). It has been quite the drama.

I think in the end, these issues will hasten the time when the girls' mothers sit them down to explain the tricky aspect of being a woman where you are unfairly judged for what you wear all the time, and even judged for how someone else (who is not you nor the person judging you) might feel about what you are wearing. It sucks. I hope my own DD somehow skips on this interest in bare midriffs and I can punt on this misery a little longer, until MS. Ugh.[/quote]

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