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For those of you with tween daughters do or would you buy their underwear from Victoria Secrets?
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I personally don't see anything wrong with answering the question.Actually, I don't think I would discuss my teen daughter's underwear on a public messageboard, let alone my tween's, and even less a provocative brand of underwear. There's enough premature sexualizing of our daughters without cooperating with it.
Look at it this way:I personally don't see anything wrong with answering the question.
I was just curious if I am the only one who thinks this is too grown up for 10-11 year olds.
This is a good rule of thumb, and one that consumers would be well advised to apply to all so-called "designer" products.... Don't judge the brand, judge the products ...
Well .... not really. But perhaps our standards of what constitutes "plain and serviceable" are different. I think padding is inappropriate for teens, bright colours are immodest for their tendency to show through lighter clothing, and wires are unhealthy; and low-cut briefs are more likely to chafe and are less sanitary than classic-cut briefs. Filter those design elements out and VS has a much more limited selection than a vendor like Warners or Fruit of the Loom. The one advantage I can see is that VS bra prices are quite low; but if price is a concern why would one be buying a ten-year-old a bra at all, when all that age usually needs is a little cotton undershirt.VS also has some really nice products and excellent normally lined full coverage or demi bras. They have a variety of different bras for different shirts, bras that are made for that convenience, not for show. Many of them have convertable straps so you can wear them as a racer back, halter or normal to prevent straps from showing. Some of them are also seamless, so you can't see the outline of the bra as much under tight or thin shirts.
If anything, VS bras make dressing modestly and appropriately easier for a girl.
Their Pink branch is actually geared towards younger teens.
hmmm... how would the boys at the girl's school know this is about them....
Actually, I think that VS are on the LESS expensive side. $30 is cheap for a foundation garment, and one should generally not skimp on foundations, whether building a highrise or rearing your child or planning your wardrobe. But a normal ten-year-old doesn't need foundation garments at all, just underwear. (Admittedly I was ten when I got my first girdle, but in those days we needed them to hold up our stockings)K9_Trainer said:...For most products, I'll say you get what you pay for and that includes bras. VS may be on the more expensive side, but they are well made. But like you, I don't see any sense in buying a $30 bra for a 10 or 11 year old who will probably outgrow it in 6 months or less.
I suppose for the less expensive branches geared towards young teens, $30 isn't uncommon.Well, I would certainly HOPE the only way the boys would know this, is by reading on the internet what the girls mothers choose to advertise. Which is why that, while I'm willing to discuss underwear in general terms, I'm not going to make any statements about what I do or don't buy for my daughters.
Actually, I think that VS are on the LESS expensive side. $30 is cheap for a foundation garment, and one should generally not skimp on foundations, whether building a highrise or rearing your child or planning your wardrobe. But a normal ten-year-old doesn't need foundation garments at all, just underwear. (Admittedly I was ten when I got my first girdle, but in those days we needed them to hold up our stockings)
No, I don't think it's "Old Fashioned" of you at all. This 24 yearold totally agrees (and actually young and rather hip tooLook at it this way:
If one of the little boys at your daughter's school were to read this page, and tell her "I know what kind of panties you wear because your mama posted it on the World Wide Web", don't you think she would be embarrassed?
Now, what if the person who read this page were not a little boy, but the dirty old man who lives across the street: even if he does nothing more than look out the window every time she gets out of the car to come into your home, and imagines her in her undies, would you want to be contributing to that?
Its old-fashioned of me, perhaps, but I think a lady's underwear, even a young lady's underwear, is not a matter for public discussion.
As a general observation though, I'd suggest that plain serviceable clothes (under or over) are an appropriate norm for children; and anything that emphasises fashion or branding over the freedom to play tag and climb trees is too grown up. My fifteen-year-old spent today playing grounders and marco-polo in the playground with the neighbourhood children without her activities in any way being constrained by style or fashion, so certainly a ten-year-old should enjoy the same freedom. If a garment isn't constraining and doesn't attract inappropriate attention then it's irrelevant to me where it was purchased. My only concern in that case would be for the child's self-image and value system, if she cares particularly about having over-sophisticated garments or about having particular trendy brands.
I have a couple bras from there. I would have never bought them myself, they are too expensive. Someone gave them to me. I loved them.I bought 3 push up bras from the very sexy push up collection and they all ended up falling apart or the wire came out of them and it wasn't worth the money so save your money. I do however buy the underwear from there PINK collection they always have the 5 for $25 deal.
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