Lonfiction - Dear Fashion Mafia,

Dear Fashion Mafia,

Mar. 11th, 2008 at 6:05 PM

Dear Fashion Mafia,

Just quit it. Honestly. Not everyone wants to look like a snow-skiing '70s porn star.

Since when does it take a lens big enough to pick up SETI transmissions to protect my eyes from UV rays and road glare, anyway? How 'bout we skip ahead to the part where sunglass designers realize we are not a species of anime heroines and start sizing their products more realistically?

No luv,

Lon

P.S. There is no reason in the world an 8 year old needs a pair of short-shorts with the word "JUICY" written across the butt. Whoever dreamed that one up should be on their local pedophile watch list.

Mood: cranky

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catsparx wrote:

Mar. 11th, 2008 11:00 pm (UTC)

Oh yeah. I'm researching a book on body image & self esteem for my day job at the moment & the words corporate paedophelia spring to mind. There is some very sick stuff out there and a load of it is aimed at the 'tween' market -- all those poor little girls trying to work out who they want to be when the mass media seems intent on turning them into a batch of skanky hos. As if running the gauntlet between anorexia and obesity wasn't already tough enough. The saddest thing I've read so far is an observation that some of these kids like to play with little kid toys... when they don't think anyone else is watching.

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lonfiction wrote:

Mar. 12th, 2008 01:55 pm (UTC)

Wow. That is sad. I'm very lucky that my girls' mom and I are on the same page about stuff like this. She has done a great job letting them stay children a whole lot longer than most their ages.

I'd be interested in hearing more about your book when you have news, btw.

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biomekanic wrote:

Mar. 11th, 2008 11:13 pm (UTC)

My theory is that the prostitot movement is prepare them for their role as assassistutes when they mature.

On a more serious note, Brittany and her ilk have a lot to answer for.
Re the PS: I saw that at the mall, and wanted to slap the living bejezus out of the parents.

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lonfiction wrote:

Mar. 12th, 2008 01:59 pm (UTC)

It's not Brittany and Co who are masterminding these trends. Jeez, they could screw up a "Buy one Get One" shoe sale.

Britt, Lindsey and all the rest are just foot soldiers in the war on childhood. Too bad they aren't wearing fashionable Star Trek red shirts...

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nick_kaufmann wrote:

Mar. 11th, 2008 11:21 pm (UTC)

I swear to God, Lon, if you come between me and my 8-year-old JUICY prostitots...!

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lonfiction wrote:

Mar. 12th, 2008 02:00 pm (UTC)

So that's the kind of DVDs you spent so much on last year.

For shame, Mr. Kaufmann. For shame. :P

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jjschwabach wrote:

Mar. 11th, 2008 11:36 pm (UTC)

Consider that they also make fishnet stockings and spike heels for four year olds...
gah.

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lonfiction wrote:

Mar. 12th, 2008 02:11 pm (UTC)

Gah is right.

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realthog wrote:

Mar. 12th, 2008 01:42 am (UTC)

"There is no reason in the world an 8 year old needs a pair of short-shorts with the word "JUICY" written across the butt. Whoever dreamed that one up should be on their local pedophile watch list."

Yep, I saw one of these in line at the post office the other week with her mother. What unsettled me beyond that a designer would design this, a manufacturer manufacture it and a retailer retail it was that the were parents so ****ing stupid as to buy it and dress their kids in it! Every excuse I tried to think of for them came up blank. Completely moronic.

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lonfiction wrote:

Mar. 12th, 2008 02:09 pm (UTC)

I'm far from a perfect parent or some kind of puritan, but it just steams me up the way most have abdicated their parental responsibilities to the government, glitterati and whichever IP is on TV or videogames this week.

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