Comments on: Celebrity, Children, & Fashion, 1920s-1930s

By: hope full

hope full — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:43:39 +0000

i dont know if anyone knows this but graeme greene, the famous author, actually was one of the first people to openly criticize the sexualization of children, his critique was actually of Shirley Temple. To be fair she was actually quite risque, like the Japanese anime who dress like children but in a cheeky sexual way.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:54:45 +0000

Alex – thanks for your query! It starts on page 316 of Volume 1. Hope you enjoy!

Heather

By: Alex Johnson

Alex Johnson — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:12:56 +0000

From which pages in the book was the excerpt taken? I’m interested in reading further!

By: Modest Gowns

Modest Gowns — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:28:10 +0000

I agree with katie. I think that modesty is classy. Our world is going downhill as far as clothing goes. The things you see people wearing these days!

By: Heather Vaughan

Heather Vaughan — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:39:53 +0000

Katie Lee – thanks for your comment. I just became aware of this (now passed) exhibition “Child’s Play: Aesthetics, Gender, & Children’s Clothing” at the Monroe County History Center in Indiana, which lives on in a blog available here: http://childsplayexhibit.blogspot.com/

You might find it interesting.

Best,

Heather

By: Katie Lee

Katie Lee — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:08:42 +0000

Personally, I wish we’d get back to dressing little girls to look like little girls instead of streetwalkers. I was at the mall recently and saw fingerless black lace gloves for toddlers! Black leather short, tight skirts for four-year olds, and sex, sex, sex everywhere I looked! Are these children’s mother’s completely clueless? We complain about kidnapping and predators but buy into the idea of dressing our daughters like harlots for men to consume! I left with some soft, pink fabric I intend to use to make a Shirley Temple dress for my little girl. I know she’ll love it. She was in tears looking at the trash the mall offered. (She’s six years old.)

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:54:54 +0000

Thanks Alaina, glad you enjoyed it. Nothing in fashion is every really new Even celebrities as fashion designers is nothing new!

Heather

By: Alaina Zulli

Alaina Zulli — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:47:36 +0000

Interesting little article, I never thought about early 20th c. child endorsements. And the way people carry on now about Hannah Montana clothes, as if it were a new thing!