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Cut-price clothes retailer Primark has pulled a "disgraceful" range of kids' bikinis featuring padded tops, following a barrage of criticism over the ill-considered apparel. According to the BBC, the bikinis for girls as young as seven came in "candy pink with gold stars and black with white polka dots" at four quid a pop, and …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    The sort of country *you* want ??

    What the hell are you going to do about it then ?

    Go on, tell us Dave. I'm all ears. Legislate, ban - or tut disapprovingly

    A nasty glimpse of the (so-called) alternative to the current control freaks in charge

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Rent-A-Quote MPs...

    If nothing else, it's good to be reminded that the Great Paedogeddon is in safe hands, no matter what the colour of the next Government. As bad as each other, and all incapable of rational thought on the subject, they will do absolutely nothing to restore any modicum of common sense, whilst doing their utmost best to misinform, distract and sensationalise in the desperate hope of scoring a few more cheap political points.

    It's all a bit depressing.

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  3. jmarke
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    Get a Life - Please !!!

    Come on people, I seen at least a few of you say you have young daughters, so are non of you ever at home? do you never watch them play?

    ITS CALLED DRESSING UP.

    All little girls do it, many of them from what I've seen never stop; and yes they stuff things into tops of their costumes, tennis balls, balloons etc etc so they can look grown up or look like mum.

    There is always going to be someone who dresses up their kids to look like a cheap whore, and there is always going to someone willing to print a story about it. The more you keep reacting to these sad, sick purveyors of garbage the more they will write.

    Let the kids have their fun - leave them be and get a life...

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  4. Stewart Haywood

    No

    They (Primark) are not exploiting children. They are exploiting parents who do not have sufficient strenth of character to say "No Kylee, I don't care what Rupert wears, you are not having one".

    I suppose it is now much easier to say "Well, Kylee, you can't have one because the government says you can't.............That's right, the same man that says you can't photograph the nice policeman checking out the magazines on the top shelf to protect us all".

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Paris Hilton

      If Rupert is wearing a padded bra....

      There's more problems here than whinging can fix.

      She doesn't bother with the bra at all...

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  5. Graham Bartlett
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    @HFoster

    "toy companies who wanted to sell the f*** out of their products"

    As opposed to clothing companies who want to sell the f*** into their customers, of course...

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  6. Bounty

    nipple blocker?

    Personally I find it annoying to see 8 year olds with nipples poking through their tops at the pool, I'd much prefer they put some modest padding in. When they start making C cup sized padding for 8 year olds, then you can bitch. Or are these C cup sized tops we're talking about?

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  7. Anonymous Coward
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    Many little girls

    Like to dress up, which often includes looking older, and I think that most of them have noticed that their elders have breasts.

    Sorry, kids... not allowed any longer.

    On the other other other hand, I am never comfortable with adults dressing young girls in clothes that would be daring and revealing on a teenager or adult.

    By the way. I just thought I'd say this..... Training Bras.

    There. Said it.

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    1. Alfred 2
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      @Thad

      "By the way. I just thought I'd say this ... Training Bras."

      How the h*** do you train a bra???

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  8. A B 3

    Kids these days

    I saw an 10 or 11 year old girl on a tv program with pierced ears. What kind of a parent lets their daughter get pierced ears at that age.

    I should feel sorry for the boys who have socialise and play with tarted up young girls. OTOH they're probably to busy texting to even look up notice each other. I wonder how I would have turned out if I'd grown up with a mobile phone (they were brick sized when I was a teenager)...

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  9. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    Padded Tops

    Why do little girls need to wear tops when they swim at all? They don't have anything to cover. As long as we're pretending they have breasts, why not pad the tops to make it look like they do?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      I remember the innocent days when this was the case

      Little children were usually naked down the beach.

      Its the media thats sexualised children to the point where the average male adult is uncomfortable anywhere near naked or semi-naked children no matter how innocent the circumstances are.

      Not that we get many sunny days.

      Anonymous for the same reasons.

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  10. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
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    Tits or GFTO

    This could all have been prevented if people were still laying eggs.

    Damn you, evolution!

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  11. Amazed

    Who pays?

    Just one small point, It is not seven y/o kids who buy padded bikini tops but the bloody stupid parents, unless of course they just hand over four pounds pocket money and send their daughters off shopping by themselves.

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  12. Eden

    It's paranoia plain and simples

    Sadly one of my co-workers reads the SUN and the first I saw about this was a headline on his desk "PEDO-BRAS!!".

    What a freaking joke!

    Sorry but I've been around my various neices and family little'uns long enough to know that girls like to play grown up from a quite young age, get over it.

    Sure if they are stupidly ott breast enhancement type jobbies, it's very poor taste.

    If it's a tiny amount of padding...get the heck over it!

    Wanting to look grown up != sex mania pedo magnet insert knee jerk terror du jour here.

    As for the why do kids wear tops in pools at all, paranoia, simple as that.

    Britain seems to be the worst though.

    Holidaying in spain and the spanish islands all the brit kids are covered head to toe, most european kids are topless, in fact so are most of the european mums, and you know what, most people don't even bat an eyelid and it just becomes normal.

    It's only us brits (and the yanks) that seem to be paranoid that any show of flesh = sex.

    Oh it's also traditional in spain to peirce girls ears almost from birth to the point you can have a baby girl dressed all in pink with BABY GIRL all over her clothes, and a spainard will take one look, see no ear piercing and ask "ahh what a cute boy what's his name?"

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  13. heyrick Silver badge

    Is there a picture of this?

    I'm surprised some sort of photo wasn't included in the article so we can decide if it is "pointless storm in a teacup" or "maybe they have a point"...

    ...not that it would make any difference to the ex-pat mob the other side of town. They let their kids run around with minimal clothing, and by that I mean partial underwear for both genders who are nearly into double-digit ages. Some parents are just stupid, in both extremes.

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  14. Anonymous Coward
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    The tabloids play a huge part in this

    The sexualisation of children is something our disgraceful tabloids have down to a fine art. Look for example at the Mail drooling over Suri Cruise, it's downright creepy:

    http://www.google.com/webhp?q=%22suri+cruise%22+site%3Adailymail.co.uk

    Just... ugh.

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  15. Alfonso Vespucci

    Can the Reg please find out

    Has anyone reported the Primark buyer to the ISA yet?

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  16. Anonymous Coward
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    The paedophile pound?

    That's obviously where all those puppies that they need so much help looking for end up.

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  17. Anonymous Coward
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    "stamp this kind of sexualisation of children"

    Maybe you meant 'stamp OUT'

    ?

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  18. Equitas
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    A suggestion for the self-appointed guardians of public morality

    Some eight-year-olds have obvious early breast development

    Other eight-year-olds want to look as if they have

    Some mothers of eight-year-olds like dressing their kids as if they were teenagers

    Almost all adult women emphasise their breasts to a greater or lesser extent -- even those who don't have any seem to see a need to create the appearance of breasts.

    Is it surprising that someone should market a bikini top for young girls to do for them what it seems is deemed relevant for older females?

    If the self-righteous would-be guardians of public morality were really interested in modesty they might be better campaigning against tops and bottoms without padding or interlining to conceal anything at all when they get wet.

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  19. elderlybloke
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    Why

    have none of you raised the usual rallying cry for this sort of article.

    Repeat after me " Think of the children, think of the children!

    I come from the era well before all the claptrap that fills the mass media now.

    Forgive me for any offence, I apologise etc. etc.

    All done now.

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  20. Bill Fresher

    Child protection

    What's wrong with a bit of padding to protect children's delicate parts.

    When I was little I had trousers with padded knees.

    Seems to me that the politicians rushing to protect the children may end up with children not being protected.

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  21. Chika
    FAIL

    The Nanny State, wrapping our kids in cotton wool...

    ...er... wait a minute. That would be padding, wouldn't it?

    I could say that it's a slow news day but when did The Sun last let news get in the way of a "scandal"?

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  22. Anonymous Coward
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    Old enough for what?

    So they're deemed old enough for "how to do it" lessons on sexual intercourse (in the name of "sex education," of course) but not deemed old enough for wearing a padded bikini top?

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