WTF! Femme-Enfant! Kids in High Heels, Makeup & Lingerie?!!!

French people, tell me what’s the matter with you?  Femme-Enfant?  Seriously? Let kids be cute and not sexy!  Don’t make them wear high heels, makeup and and lingerie! They’re too young for that!

I’m sure all of you are aware of the fact that kids these days are so much different from us when we were growing up.  Especially those who were born in my generation when Internet was just a dust in the wind and we don’t watch too much TV and see all glamed-up stars and celebrities.

May last year (2010) when I posted on my personal mommy blog my disappointment in the way  Katie Holmes is letting her five year old daughter Suri wear makeup and high heels at a very tender age.  Moms who read that post agreed with my idea that we should let kids enjoy their childhood as much as they can.  We should let kids wear children’s clothes and not to mirror how we as moms or the society is dictating us.

Suri Cruise as she was going for a walk with her mom. Look at that heels and lipstick.  Tolerable and cute if not too much but if she wears heels and makeup all the time that’s the problem!

If this one dismayed me, imagine how I’m gravely disgusted by the latest news about young girls lingerie. This French couture company is targeting girls age four (4) and up to wear lingerie? WTF! and even made advertising campaign sexualizing young girls at a very young age.

Some said some moms are just over reacting to the issue as these girls look cute.

I’ll be quoting parts of the post of the First Post in UK about this issue. Showing two views of the story. The article said the French are not bothered with sexualizing young girls. In their culture young girls are raised to be women.

A French lingerie designer, Sophie Morin, has caused outrage with a campaign using pre-pubescent girls to model her range of “loungewear and lingerie” for girls between four and 12. The campaign for the underwear brand Jours Apres Lunes features images of young girls – their hair in bouffant – reclining on sofas in bras and pants, playing with Jackie O-style sunglasses and strings of pearls.

Some commentators believe the reaction reflects a cultural gap between Anglo and French attitudes. When pictures of a 10-year-old French model, Thylane Loubry-Blondeau (daughter of French footballer Patrick Blondeau and TV presenter Veronika Loubry), in heavy make-up and gold stilettos recently appeared in Vogue, the response in England and America bordered on hysterical.

In France, however, they were less bothered. “From a young age, girls practice being women,” explained Alice Pfeiffer on Fashionista, “or rather, French women.” And on the Paris fashion scene there is no shortage of labels selling clothes that allow young girls to match their mothers in sophistication and sexiness. Agnes B, for example, has carried a ‘Lolita’ range since 1984.

“There is no real teenage culture in France, no Larry Clark nor Hillary Duff. Somehow, one goes straight from childhood to a semblance of adulthood,” said Carol Mann, a French sociologist specializing in gender and childhood. “Hence the [portrayal] of the ‘femme-enfant’ such as Brigitte Bardot or Vanessa Paradis.”

Albeit the cultural difference, all kids are the same.  They are kids who just follow what mom/dad/society shapes them to be. Being that  we should let kids be kids while they still can.  Let’s not make kids wear makeup, heels and lingerie at a very tender age.  Let’s make kids enjoy their childhood. They will never be young forever and we can never turn back time again.

Having them kids pose in high heels, makeup and lingerie imitating fashion icon Femme-Fatale like is not cute, its very suggestive and tagging them as Femme-Enfant is just too much!

How about you moms and fashionista’s out there what do you think about this?

Stay gorgeous everyone!