Less-Than-Zero Sizes and Effect on Teen Girls

Next fall Nicole Miller is will introduce a size that’s smaller than a zero, dubbed “subzero,” but Banana Republic beat her to the punch, offering a size “00″ size on its site this spring.

Now if you’re one of those people whose sitting there scratching your head thinking, wait a minute — aren’t we’re constantly hearing of how Americans are getting fatter? What’s the need for creating these unbelievably tiny sizes? Who’s wearing them? Well I’ll tell you…

People aren’t getting smaller. In fact, if anything, young girls are developing physically faster and sooner. So let’s get to the root of what this sub-zero, double-zero and less than zero sizing is all about — pedophile-chic. Young girls are being turned into women younger and younger, and a 13 year old girl who used to wear a children’s size 14, is now strongly encouraged — just short of forced by the fashion industry — to turn to the women’s department because all of the fashions being advertised to young teens are not available in the children’s department where clothes are more modest and less expensive. They’re sold in the women’s departments where the clientele is getting younger and younger — and the sizes are going below zero in order to catch up with the market, I call pedophile-chic.

Pedophile-chic

Hot models now begin their careers at ages 12, 13 and 14, because it takes years for an agency to build a profitable Super Model, and few and far between are the models who can pull in the big bucks after age 30 – Super or not. Some modeling agencies won’t look seriously at girls who are over the age of 15, yet you can flip through any fashion magazine and see how many sexually provocative ads you find – using models who are “under age” when it comes to the sex they are selling. Yes, sex in advertising sells and it’s very typically teen models being used to sell sex – along with the products.

Most of the clothes that teen stars like Lindsey Lohan and Hilary Duff are photographed wearing would be in violation of the dress codes at many public schools which ban spaghetti strap tops and bared midriffs during school hours. The reality today is, if you want to be hip and popular in junior high school, middle school, high school – and yes, even elementary school – you better look hot – and be hot! That’s the message being sent to our young, American girls who are on the verge of becoming women.

On a message board talking about the epidemic of 12, 13 and 14 year old oral sex, a mall sales clerk posts the following message: “In the junior’s department of this store, the clothing is smaller, tighter and more revealing. The girls almost have no choice but to buy these clothes, because that is all that the stores are selling!”

Kids — The New Eye Candy?
Abercrombie and Fitch was making and selling so many thongs — to seven year olds, with slogans like “wink, wink” and “eye candy” written across the crotch that, finally, parents took action and created an online petition to stop them from doing so. Abercrombie and Fitch’s “magalog,” (a term referred to their catalogue that looks like a magazine) is marked “for adults only” and can only be purchased, for $7 by those 18 and over with a photo ID. “The Christmas Field Guide,” (A & F’s Christmas catalog) doesn’t begin advertising clothes until page 120, but it does contain 45 specific portrayals of sexual imagery including overt portrayals of group sex, lots of teen and young adult nudity, and teens and young adults frolicking in a river engaging in sexual activity in multiple group settings. A & F’s “blue” catalog is under attack from the National Coalition for the protection of Children & Families.