Horrified Mom Finds Crotchless Panties For Sale at Colo. Children’s Store
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Madeleine Morgenstern
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Erin French was visiting a Greeley, Colo. mall with her family when she made a startling discovery: Next to a children’s play area was a “Kids N Teen” clothing store for young girls. It was selling underwear — or a distinct lack thereof.
“They have cuddly little stuffed animal backpacks and pretty little princess dresses,” French told Denver NBC affiliate KUSA-TV. “Then we saw crotchless panties.”
French said she was mortified and quickly took out her cell phone to capture images of the crotchless thongs for sale near the rest of the children’s merchandise at the store. Though the video is grainy, the underwear appears to be split down the crotch.
“My first initial response was, ‘Am I really seeing that?’” she said. “They’re sized to fit a seven-year-old girl. That’s just totally inappropriate.”
The store’s owner told KUSA that Kids N Teen caters mostly to children, but about a quarter of their inventory is geared toward teenagers. The mall’s management office was notified and the panties have since been removed.
Even though the panties are now gone, French said they never should have been in the store in the first place.
“This is a baby store, this is a children’s store,” she said. “There is one purpose for an item of that nature and that is not something that we want to encourage for our young girls.”
The store told the station it has only been in business the last two weeks and is still trying to figure out its merchandise.
Over the summer, a French clothing designer came under fire for its line of “loungerie” — skimpy lingerie items aimed at 4- to 12-year-olds.
(h/t Buzzfeed)
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Comments (142)
huberto
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:49pmI saw a young girl, about 9, wearing a curious t-shirt at the mall. It said something like “Grow up and put your BIG GIRL panties on”. I still don’t know what to think.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:17pmThere are mom’s all over the country wearing clothes that there kids wear, just to look hip. Last year I saw a skank mom and her couple of young daughters all wearing outfits with juicy across their rear-ends. Seems nobody is using their noggins anymore.
Report Post »Gazthraka
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:44pmIs this what it feels like to live in a modern day Sodom or Gomorrah?
Report Post »jcldwl
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:57pmYou are so right. If people aren’t returning to God now they are in dire straights. Pray people pray.
Report Post »Joe Bonham
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:27pmOMG the world is ending.
/sarcasm
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:35pmImagine being Joe’s seven year old daughter. I feel sorry for her.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:40pmIt’s what it feels like to be living in a society that is being conditioned to accept Islam.
Report Post »Propertyof IAM
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:12pmAs in the days of Noah…..
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:14pmPo’ people need love too…
Report Post »vehoae
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:57pmFor PROPERTYOF IAM: You are so right. I‘ve never forgotten Jesus’ response to the apostles when they asked what signs they would see when He was ready to return to earth again. It’s frightening to think of just how much worse it had to have been in the days of Noah given the fact that they did not have the same luxuries that society has today (i.e., electricity, toilets, indoor plumbing, medicine, etc.). But, since Jesus hasn’t yet returned with His army of Holy Angels, apparently things have not yet become as bad as they were in the days of Noah. That in itself should provoke us children of God to bow to Him every day in praise and prayer. How sorry I feel for children being born in this era, and for the things they are going to be taught by their parents and teachers — a bulk of whom we’ve been watching in video clips during these riots/demonstrations, using foul language, calling for the decimation of this country, calling for our death, destroying public & private property, being lawless, committing crimes and offenses, and, worst of all, loudly blaspheming God. How happy their god must be (the fallen angel Lucifer).
Lord, come quickly.
Report Post »dsinsg
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 10:21pmSay What?
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:04amWhat makes you think that they didn’t have toilets and things like that in the days of Noah? In Roman times, they had indoor plumbing. The Bible says that from Adam and Eve until Noah’s time, they had 1680-something years. How much technological progress have we made since 1600 years ago? Plus, people lived to be 100s of years old, so they had a much longer time to learn and have a productive work life. I personally think that they probably had a fairly advanced society. Of course, it all was wiped out in the flood. There’s no way that Noah and 7 other people would be able to continue an advanced society.
Report Post »Homeschoolmama
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:49am@ Brooke–I agree, obviously the fact that Noah built a ship so large was not something amazing to society at that time.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:31amThe store says that it also sells to teens so this is okay? Geez.
Report Post »LetUsReason
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:18am@ Brooke
I’ve thought the same thing. We always think that we’re the most advanced people ever, and the myriad of people before us were all knuckle-dragging cave dwellers. Ok, I’m speaking in hyperbole, but really, it is not unreasonable to believe that technology of an advanced nature has existed in other civilizations in this Earth’s past. Heck, a few EMPs and we, ourselves, might be re-learning how to grow veggies to survive and make tools. Some have speculated that Noah’s Ark may have been nothing more than a floating DNA bank, not a big boat where two animals of every variety on Earth actually sat around like a giant petting zoo. Scripture of course wouldn’t word it as a DNA bank, and the details aren’t vital in understanding the principles at work. I‘m not saying that’s necessarily what I believe, but it’s just an interesting viewpoint to consider. Anyway, this is a little off topic, but your comment made me think. As for this article specifically, yes, very disturbing and inappropriate.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:53pmErin French may have been mostly horrified by the fact the underwear was less expensive there than Wal-Mart
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 3:49pmFreedom… provides Choice… even the one’s that you do not want. In other words: if your eye offends you, then pluck it out! But, let others keep their Freedom and ability to Choose!
Report Post »katiefrankie
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:42pmThe store manager’s comment that teenagers shop at the store, too, was supposed to mollify the press, but it didn’t have the intended effect on me. Quite the opposite, in fact. My feeling is, you don’t buy underwear like that unless you want someone to see it, and in my home, sex is for marriage, so that is not the kind of underwear I’d be buying for my children. Can we let children still be children? Or must we pimp them out like little prostitutes while still underage? Good freaking grief, that makes me ill.
Report Post »awarestudent
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:24pmRight on!!! I don’t know if this store is a chain or not, but we will NEVER shop there.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:27amThat was my exact thought. Teens shouldn’t be exposed to this either. To qualify for a teen, you only have to be thir-TEEN. That’s not old enough to walk into an “adult” store, so why would they have adult items in a children’s store?
Report Post »girlnurse
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:42pmCome quickly Lord Jesus!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 3:42pmIt is just Capitalism… where it is cheaper to make a run of various sizes, rather than a Custom Order… where the smaller sizes are discounted and acquired by low end stores. The ordering people probably did not know the details of the item… they just ordered based upon price.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:36pmSounds like someone needs a good beating to me!
Report Post »weepoorsoul
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:52pmWith a cat-o-nine tails, better yet,use a big-ol “goin’ outa business” sign!
Report Post »HTuttle
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:34pmEdited from the video are clips of Roman Polanski and Woody Allen shopping there.
Report Post »zippo
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:18pmhilarious!!
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:02amha ha ha….sad but Soooo true!!
Report Post »TJexcite
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:32pmWhat does Capitalism look like, This is what Capitalism looks like. Only capitalism could cause this to be made, shipped, delivered and stocked to make a buck. It may or may not be sign of moral decay but it is a sign of unfettered capitalism.
Which is better, having to deal with this or only allowed to wear state or church approved clothing just like Saudi woman.
Report Post »coindexter
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:41pmreeeeeeeeeeach…reeeeeeeach…as far as you can from out of your mommies toilet.
Report Post »65Mustang
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:59pmIt’s called a moral issue, something you must not possess….morals.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:13pmCapitalism is NOT the cause of this, you moron. That’s like saying money is the cause of prostitution!
Report Post »With the sexualizing of kids at younger and younger ages, this was predictable. Progressive thinking allows that children are just little adults and as adults they should be able to do everything that adults do, including having sex as soon as they are able to do so. And if that’s the case, then crotchless panties for 12 year olds is (in the mind of the progressive) completely understandable!
So please take your progressive/anti-capitalist/pro-islamist mindcrap and shove it.
And no, I’m not finding excuses for this sort of thing….just examining the cause: progressive social programming.
Free2speakRN
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:04pm“Only capitalism could cause this to be made, shipped, delivered and stocked to make a buck. It may or may not be sign of moral decay but it is a sign of unfettered capitalism.”
“It may or may not be sign of moral decay”!?? It may ‘not’ be a sign of moral decay?!
“but it is a sign of unfettered capitalism.”…………… Where are you at, man! This IS moral decay! Capitalism is not inherently evil. These things need to watched, but good. This Progressive Relativism is inherently evil. And these are signs of it. And it needs to be dealt with.
What do you want? Your daughter being stoned to death, or have her nose cut off, because she was raped and didn’t have four men to testify in her defense, possibly because these were the four men raping her? Straighten out, Man.
Report Post »Jennifer_D
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:19pmThankfully this mother noticed that these underwear were being sold in a store where, regardless of offering items for kids and teenagers, young children shopped. Did the store owner expect parents to not pay attention to what was being sold in the store? Did they expect that children would never look at placed merchandise? Thankfully; this mother was paying attention to what was offered in the store and she spoke up.
Notice that the underwear are no longer being offered for sale. That is because this store had the rug yanked out from under them and were forced to re-examine selling these underwear. Of course they could continue to sell it, but there would be negative consequences for them as a result. Bad businesses like this one would fail for exploiting little girls; THAT is the beauty of capitalism.
Report Post »Nancy in NC
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:35amHas nothing to do with capitalism. It has EVERYTHING to do with a culture gone insane. No one would make these if there were no market.
Report Post »slamp
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:29amThank God for Capitolism. Thanks to Capitolism this store will soon close because the market won’t shop at a place like this! Capitolism weeds out bad stuff aimed at our children, every time!
Report Post »just_a_thinker
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:03pmI looked around: Haven’t seen unfettered capitalism anywhere for a long time. I have seen plenty of crony capitalism, socialist wealth redistribution and a bit of fascism. Unfettered capitalism? Nope. I don’t relish the upcoming institution of Sharia in the US either.
Report Post »I miss my US Declaration of Independence and Constitution more and more every day…
Starkadder
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:32pmThe free market will decide, relax and watch. I doubt they will stay open for long.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:15pmThe mother who complain has already used her right to voice her opinion which obviously made an impression on the store owner. Sane public policy usually wins in the end.
Report Post »garbagecanlogic
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:31pmProbably left over from Bob Beckel’s collection, or maybe Obermeier or Maddow’s.
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
crackerone
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:49pmSomething Barney Frank would buy as a stocking stuffer for a young boy.
Report Post »Bill Wallace
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:30pmNote the lies being told.
1. 25% of our sales are geared for teens.
Really? When was the last time your teen said, “Hey, can I go shopping at Babies R’ Us?” Teens do NOT want to shop at a kid store. If these idiots thought 25% of their store would be for teens, they are really stupid.
2. The owner said they have been in business for 2 weeks and are still trying to figure out their inventory.
SOMEONE HAD TO ORDER IT. Merchandise just doesn’t show up in your stock room. You have to order it. That means an invoice and a catalogue where someone said, “Gee, I think we should get about 2 cases of the crotchless thongs for a 7 year old…and I know exactly where we will build that display.”
The cops better subpoena the records of the store and track down via credit card everyone who bought one of these items, and then targeted them for pedophilia.
(and it is time for parents to start forming mobs of people with pitchforks, torches, shovels and ropes)
Report Post »booger71
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:58pmI really don’t think you want the police to have this kind of power, do ya Bill?
Report Post »JustJ
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:15pmEven if that’s true… Should teens be wearing crotchless panties? Or the greater question; What parents are LETTING their teenage daughter wear crotchless panties?
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:21pmOver reaction there Bill: The marketplace will take care of this problem….That “invisible hand” that Adam Smith referred to will remove such trash from the marketplace when it becomes known WHO they are and WHERE not to shop for your kid’s cloths. Besides, there’s no law against making really tacky clothing that nobody wants. As for getting the cops out to track down your suspected pedophiles…can you say….POLICE STATE???
Report Post »MerryJ1
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:39pmYes, Bill, but… Buyers frequently order much of their stock variety based on the purveyor‘s recommendations of sales’ expectations, without actually selecting or examining the individual items. This store is apparently a new start-up, which means the entire store-full of merchandise was put together in a relatively short time-span, and most of the attention would likely be concentrated on outer-wear — dresses, pants & jeans, blouses & T-tops, etc. It’s quite possible, if not probable, that the store management was not aware that some of their kiddie’s underwear belonged in a porn shop.
Report Post »watashbuddyfriend
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:27pmNow, I say, how does this story get aired?
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:50pmNo crotch in the panties? I think the concern is what else is being “aired”.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:24pmShe was shopping in a Munchkin store. It’s just down the road from OZ.
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:21pmI was mortified when my niece at 12 was wearing thongs, and that was 10 years ago. Look, no panty lines she would say. I would tell her that she is wearing jeans with pockets, you would not see lines anyway. I would have them investigated on Child Porn charges.
Report Post »EchoHawk
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:08pmThe store owners are capitalists, most likely republican, pigs.
Report Post »9635kari
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:16pmWhat a total moron you are! You don’t even know the meaning of the word capitalism. Are you in Zuccotti Park right now sending in your daft opinion on your lap top. How about your cell phone. What about your tents and your clothing and your Starbucks and your eateries? No capitalism there!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:26pmYou are most likely a troll …….
Report Post »coindexter
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:37pmyeah…republican pigs. cuz with a 4th grade education that sounds really cool to say…republican pigs…soooooooooeeeee. i’m an independant pig. what about me? i make a cool 150k annual…got something to say about that…i work 70 hours a week to earn it too…got something to say about that? i step on people like you everyday and wipe my shoe with your face. go cry to your mommy and while you’re at it take care of that shart.
Report Post »Crusty Thong
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:40pmOWS turdball for sure!
You and your lazy, smelly friends need to get informed. You need to understand who you are following.
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:44pmProbably liberal demoncrats is more like it,you are the morally challenged!
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:24pmSpoken like a true progressive pig. Since the articles of clothing are a result of progressive social programming (children having sex is perfectly ok), you have no position from which to complain….unless that’s your job….TROLL.
Report Post »PROTECTNEXTGEN
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:00pmAnd we always hear the same excuse, so form of pleading ignorance. This time it is that the store has only been open for two weeks, that they are still working out their inventory. Not believing it any longer.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:56pmThe next best thing to murdering babies in the LIBERAL religion, is to sexualize children.
Report Post »trouthunter
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:45pmAgreed…
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:56pmI wonder which store that was. They deserve full credit for their innovative variety of merchandise.
Report Post »normbal
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:55pmThis is very religiously insensitive. Those are for sharia-compliant muslim “child brides.” Hey, if it was good enough for Mohammed…
Report Post »piper60
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:10pmpop culture morality
Report Post »ValiantDefender
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:25pmThat was my first thought. In a muslim world, child ingerie is probably as common as bride’s maids dresses….
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:53pmAnother sign of the decline of societies morals. Heck folks, you should know where all this is going, and if you don’t you should. Let me put it this way, people don’t exist for government, people don’t exist to be slaves for the rich, people don’t exist for other people to do with them what they want to. People exist for something which is not earthly in origin, and therefore I am expecting a massive wipe out of large populations at any moment to clear land to give the godly someplace to go.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:02pmAnd it is a Holy kill in nature just as well as the wind rustles in the trees, as it did in the Bible when God would wipe out entire armies for Israel.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:05pmMoreover, the Lord doesn’t need earthquakes, neither volcanoes or storms, but that the spirit of the Lord can pass before millions and turn them into the Lord’s feast.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:08pmIt’s more like the movie “The Happening” more so than anything else.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:22pmSomeone’s off his meds again….
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:27pmELIASIM THE JEW HATING TROLL is back again!
Report Post »teahugger
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:50pmI could be mistaken, ’cause I’ve never bought a pair of crotchless panties…but I‘m pretty sure they don’t even sell these things in Victoria’s secret or in the department stores, for adults. You have to go somewhere trashy like frederick‘s of hollywood or an ’adult’ store. So selling these things in a kid’s store is beyond inappropriate.
Report Post »Cat
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:10pmWife gets hers here
Flirtylingerie.com
Report Post »Teddygirl.com
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1casawizard
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:46pmThey might be for small adults like Guatamalans who tend to be really short people.
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:43pmThis may be indicative of a decline in parental standards and the proliferation of pornography and a desire to sexualize children, just a guess.
Report Post »Balthazor
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:36pmOh what’s the big deal? They’re going to do it anyhow, so we might as well make it easy and slutty for them.
Report Post »Jomil48
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:42pmto Balthazor, so this is what your domcracy looks like. Friggin sicko lift pinko commies
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:31pmThey were Barack Obama’s!
Report Post »jado1981
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:39pmReally??? I’m all for calling the man (and I use the term loosely) a dirtbag and aside from his great teleprompter reading skills, completely useless, but what does he have to do with this article?
I know the “store” owner will never read this comment, but in the odd/off chance they do… WHY THE HELL DO YOU ORDER MERCHANDISE IF YOU ARE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT??? Why did you stop at crotchless panties, why not brass knuckles, lead paint chips, and arsenic laced candy??? Maybe you should figure it out before you order, or stock your shelves… I dunno, just a thought.
Report Post »mrmikejohnson
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:30pmKeith Olbermann is probably making a bulk order before they stop carrying those panties.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:36pmFor his own wardrobe, of coarse………………
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