Would You Buy Your Toddler French ‘Loungerie?’
- Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:45am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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A French clothing designer is under fire for developing a new line that is basically lingerie for children — except they’re calling the skimpy, beribboned collection “loungerie” instead.
Jours Apres Lunes (“Days After Moons”) bills itself as “the first designer brand dedicated to loungerie for children and teenagers, comprised of loungewear and lingerie to be worn over and under, inside and outside.”
Lingerie designer Sophie Morin said on her website her goal was to use adult lingerie trends to create underwear for toddlers and adolescents. It’s her “fille” line, aimed at 4- to 12-year-olds, that is attracting the most attention — and the photographs that go along with it.
Outfitted in triangle bras, ruffled panties and teased hair, little girls model the collection on the designer’s website, in one photo appearing to frolic on a bed, with one girl pulling at another one’s hair. In another photo, a girl stretches out on a chair, sunglasses covering half her face while her tied-off top exposes almost her entire midsection.
Credit: Jours Apres Lunes
Fashion writer Marlissa Racco told the New York Daily News said she objected to the line’s target age and the way the girls were photographed.
“It‘s cute when a little girl dresses up in her mom’s clothing and jewelry and high heels,” she told the Daily News. “These pictures are not cute. It’s entirely inappropriate to put a 4-year-old in a bouffant like she’s Brigitte Bardot in “And God Created Woman.”
“It’s inapproprite to sexualize children,” she said flatly. “A pearl-encrusted triangle bra on a little girl does not sit well with me.”
But Luis Paredes, publisher of the Lingerie Journal, told the Daily News that he thinks while Americans may be disturbed by the line, it’s unlikely to garner the same reaction in Europe.
“Recently, a lot of fashion magazines and fashion brands have come under fire for using kids in their photo spreads,” he said. “I think that at least here stateside, this company will come under fire as well.”
It seems Jours Apres Lunes is simply the latest example in the growing trend of hypersexualizing children: You may remember this story we brought you in March about clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch featuring a padded, push-up bikini top on their new children’s line.
Controversy also erupted earlier this month when 10-year-old French model Thylane Loubry Blondeau appeared in French Vogue, lying on her stomach in a tight dress atop a tiger-skin rug, heavily made-up and staring with a sultry look into the camera.
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Comments (162)
qpwillie
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:13pm“And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.”
Report Post »- Yahshua
becker88
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:18pmNot a way to have good citizens.
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Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 1:29pmEveryones reaction to this story is appropriate except the Libertarians. So join with me and if walking down the street one day you glance into a store display window,see mannequins displaying these wears march right in and demand that they be taken off display and returned to maker.
Veritas vos liberabit
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:29pmBlaze, take the pictures off!! All we need is the article. Why feed the problem?
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:08pm.
For a long time, I didn’t even click on this topic because it felt swarmy.
At what price does decency overtake profits?
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:13pmLooks like Corey Feldman ain’t lying. What’s next? Putting your 7 year old daughter on The Pill?
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:20pmno, you can’t do that either that is the job for the schools. lol
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:24pmI saw on fox a while back they had “skinny” jeans for toddlers. Megan made the comment that “skinny jeans” are supposed to make you look sexy, so why would you make them for a toddler? I agree. Let them be children for a little while longer. I don’t think they should make clothes for 12 year olds that are risque.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:38pmUntil it becomes a government mandate
>that’s illegal.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:12pmWell, gee, there’s a conference being held today in Baltimore for folks who would love this sort of thing. They’re mental health “professionals” trying to have the term “pedophilia” removed from the DSM 5 (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition), thus “normalizing” pedophilia since it would no longer be officially classified as a mental disease.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/15/conference-aims-to-normalize-pedophilia/
Report Post »Rapunzel
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:38pmThat‘s the natural progression of our society’s acceptance of sex as a leisure activity instead of a sacrament of marriage (between one man and one woman). What one generation tolerates, the next will embrace.
Report Post »First we accepted divorce and remarriage, then single motherhood, then homosexuality. Next is pedophilia and incest.
biohazard23
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:55pmI agree with you. I‘m actually surprised the Leftie loonies aren’t defending this.
Yet.
You can hear their arguments now, can’t you?
“It’s just clothing, what’s the big deal?”
“Are you some kind of prude or something?”
“It’s my choice as a parent if I want to dress my daughter this way!”
“What’s the big deal? Her mother dresses like this all the time.”
And on and on and on.
There’s no shame with those people. Then they cry and can’t understand what happened when their precious little girl has no respect for them or herself, gets pregnant, acts out in rebellion to their lack of boundaries and their BFF-style of “parenting,” and she ends up like Anna Nicole Smith. Of course, at that point, it will be society’s fault and NEVER their own since they know NOTHING about parental responsibility, or personal responsibility, for that matter…..
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 1:04pmSociety after society has gone down this very road, every time ending in great human suffering, yet the left feel it’s their job to for ever repeat their mistakes of the past.
Report Post »AVATARBABY
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 1:16pmRapunzel wrote: “First we accepted divorce and remarriage, then single motherhood, then homosexuality. Next is pedophilia and incest.”
When do we get to bestiality? I don’t know how much longer I can keep my hands off the neighbors goat.
Report Post »TOMSERVO
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 1:24pmYup, good call. Liberals are unquestionably for pedophelia. Don’t ask them about it, because they will lie and claim that they are not. They will seem very sincere: so sincere, in fact, that you may be inclined to believe that they are not actually in favor of something so sinister as the legalization of sexual acts between adults and children. Ignore these feeling of basic human decency and understanding, as they are our biggest obstacles toward removing Obama from office.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 1:36pm@TomServo, don’t you have to get back to the space station? I think I hear Crow and Joel calling your name…… Have a safe trip.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 8:05pmSome years ago The American Psychological Association came out in favor of NAMBLA. They backed off their endorsement after a public outcry. But their intentions were clear enough, and they haven’t changed.
http://www.prevent-abuse-now.com/rebuttal.htm
http://www.neusysinc.com/columnarchive/colm0194.html
Report Post »jado1981
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:12pmHoly Crap, I felt like a dirtbag reading the article. This is disgusting. I bet the creator of this line of clothing had some inappropriate touching going on when they were a kid. I will in no way call myself a prude, but holy crap this is so much more than inappropriate. I hope this gets shut down instantly by the free market.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:35pmPoor children aren’t allowed to experience being children before they have to grow up. This is so wrong of parents to think it’s even cute. What happened to the days when girls couldn’t wear lipstick until they were at least 13? If we keep allowing these pedophile types keep this up, our little children will indeed grow up too quickly, I’m afraid. God bless ‘em, their parents are without brains obviously.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 6:27pmIt looked like the childrens clothes i see at target all the time.i don’t get what the problem is. The clothes are pretty-nothing sexual -just girly pretty.
Report Post »Locket
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:09pmCan you picture your child or grandchild posed like that?
Report Post »Does the very thought of it make you want to hurl?
GOOD, we still have some decent people in this world. Congrats to us all.
rockstone
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 2:16pmI can’t. But Roman Polansky can.
Report Post »OniKaze
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:08pmFoolish Idea, but I agree that if you don’t like it, just don’t buy it… (besides what do little girls need with bras anyway)
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:08pmThis is disturbing!!! I was uncomfortable seeing those images above!! Thats just wrong
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:07pmSicko LEFTIST CRAP!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:07pm.
Report Post »They will probably make a T.V. show out of this instead of Pimp my Ride, well just use your imagination……………
Wishkah
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:05pmEveryone over reacts… just don’t buy it… very simple…
Report Post »AlansTigg
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 1:43pmthe problem with “just don’t buy it” is that there are idiots out there who still will…idiot parents who dont’ pay attention to what their children do…and unfortunately there are enough of these idiots to keep a company like this going…not to mention the sickos who would buy it for their victims.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 8:08pmIn this day and age there are a LOT of bad (incompetent) parents.
Report Post »Altotcon
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:02pmI’m not easily surprized anymore, but this one even struck
Report Post »me.
mossbrain
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:02pmNot only the child porn problem but it‘s going to start kids thinking about sex at an earlier age and they’ll probably start having sex at an earlier age.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 1:03pmJust watch out for the Pedophiles and funny Uncles.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:02pmMuslim children need this for their honeymoon.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:05pm+1 Funny
Report Post »Better Dead Than Red
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:11pmso wrong but so true.
Report Post »Texas Hills Patriot
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:01pmWatch as society crumbles before our very eyes. Anything for a dang buck. There are no morals in society any longer.
Report Post »don young
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:59amThere sould be a law against this they sould not be with there dumb parents.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:10pmI had the great displeasure of walking into the store called “Justice” not knowing what type of store it was and they have padded bras and padded bikini tops for girls in size “7”
that’s usually a girl in second grade… !
This store as I have come to know is a VERY popular store for little girls and their CRAZY mothers who allow their little girls to wear clothes that sexualize them!
Why do young mothers allow this? Why are they buying into this exploitation of their little girls?
Report Post »LibertyMama
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:59amOnly a pedophile would even conceive this idea… throw Sophie and the photographer in jail for child porn.
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:59amThey all want to grow quick
Report Post »moreteaplease
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:15pmI think it’s natural for kids to want to “be like grown-ups” but it becomes a problem when the parents want them to be grown up too and they become obsessed with it.
Report Post »W@nd@
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:56amsave your money…
Report Post »don’t buy crap like this for your kids…
Makes me think this guy is a pedophile!
Ewwwwww! sick-0
moreteaplease
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:56amWelcome to the world of moral decay. We go into orbit every time there is another pedophilia story of some kind in the news ( and rightly so I might add ) but yet we allow this?
What’s next….PLAYPEN magazine?
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:07pmThe solution is to not buy it. An idea will not flourish if nobody participates in it. It’s a pretty easy moral situation to throw up with a simple “really? You’d buy this for your kid?”
Lots of really bad ideas come and go in the marketplace, the worse the idea the fast it disappears.
Except for the Pauly Shore of course. How he made money is beyond me. :)
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 8:09pmImmoral europe will relish in it.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:54amThose pics are like child pornography. Disgusting. Anyone that buys this crap for their children probably puts them on that toddlers and tiaras show. Absolutely disgusting.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:07pmThe pics don’t look like child pornography – the ARE child pornography.
A school teacher or photographer or neighbor or parent etc would be arrested if they dressed these little girls like this & took pictures. Wouldn’t matter if they kept them for themselves or published them.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:54amThese pictures need to be removed. This is not appropriate at all. Even shows like the kiddie beauty pagents need to be banned. What the hell are people thinking doing this to their kids. I look at it as abuse and endangerment. That includes the 4 yr old preachers. Just flat out creepy.
Report Post »agameofthrones
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:53amSo the French fashion industry is now getting into the child porn business? Pedophiles worldwide will love this…..and they won’t even have to pay for the pictures and cannot be arrested for looking at “advertising”. Sick, sick, sick.
Report Post »I need Pepto Bismol.
MidWestMom
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:53amDisgusting. This is a dream come true for pedophiles and child porn lovers.
And people wonder why our kids are tuning out the way they do….
Report Post »ElaineA
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:12pmI don’t wonder MW Mom …. I would not let my daughter buy a black dress until she was 18! ‘They’ market little black dresses for 2 year olds. Some years it was a real challenge to find my toddler and youngsters a holiday dress!
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 2:12pmI know what you mean! My daughter is 16 and finding age appropriate clothing for her has been close to impossible since she was 2. Jeans & tops I could find if I looked hard enough but not skirts & dresses. I finally started buying vintage for her. Simple skirts & dresses from the late 40s thru the early 60s. Appropriate necklines, knee length skirts etc. She still wears a lot of vintage because she loves it. They were so adorable and I recieved many, many comments on how nice it was to NOT see a girl dressed like she should be standing on a streetcorner. She still gets those compliments.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 6:20pmTrue pedophiles don‘t like breasts and won’t be attracted to adult looking children [attraction to pre-pubescent children is the real definition of a pedophile].This will turn a real pedophile off -hopefully!.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:49amGREAT! Another way for pedophiles to get their jollies.
Report Post »unsalvageable.org
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:49amDisgusting.
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