Courier Mail - T-Shirts with crude messages have now hit mainstream shopping malls courtesy of the big brands. New-season T-shirts from sports brand Adidas include one emblazoned with a topless girl in a sexy pose. While the Adidas logo covers the girl's nipples, there is an abundance of shirts with exposed nipples and bare bottoms on sale in big-brand stores and online. The Facebook page of the T-Base store at Sunshine Plaza, Maroochydore, features a photo of a boy wearing a "Boobies make me smile" T-shirt, and the store stocks tees with nipple-exposed shots of Kate Moss. Recently 60 of Australia's leading women's and children's advocates, including the Reverend Tim Costello and Australian Childhood Foundation chief executive Joe Tucci, signed an open letter to retailers urging them to stop selling sexualised T-shirts.
Let me ask a question here, are 12-14 year old kids buying their own clothes now? Is this a new thing of a sudden? Because when I was that age, my mom went to Bob's at like 9 AM one August morning, came back at 2 PM, an I had a wardrobe for the whole year. I didn't argue, I sure as shit wasn't going to be wasting prime Wiffleball and Manhunt hours in some retail clothing store. Told her what I wanted, (generally an abundance of t-shirts, windpants, and carpenter style jeans), and off she went.
Given this, I can say with 100% certainty that I wouldn't be walking around town rocking "Boobies Make Me Smile" t-shirts. Sure, Nana would supplement the clothing lineup come Christmas time, but again, the turtlenecks and button downs weren't exactly plastered with naked girl silhouettes. Just your standard cute grandchild apparel.
