Could I mention again that I know a lot of kids from babes to late teens, and while fashionable enough, none of them conform to the stereotype of oversexed and sexualised kidlets being thrown about in some posts? I really do think people over react - parents aren't helpless. Kids aren't stupid. You tend to notice the one child out of twenty who's wearing clothes you personally don't approve of.

In 1962, when I was eleven, the popular outfit was a skort - remember those? They were a panty attached to skirt affair, where the skirt barely hit thigh below the panty. Nobody so much as blinked.