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Fed-up Moms Create Their own Clothing for Girls

posted by CoolHand on Sunday August 30 2015, @06:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the diversity dept.

Runaway1956 writes:

In light of some past articles on diversity, SoylentNews: "How to Get Girls Into Coding" and SoylentNews: "Google to Release Diversity Data About its Workforce" This CNN article caught my attention.

Princess Free Zone offers empowering T-shirts with images such as dinosaurs, skateboards and soccer balls. "Kids should not have to be brave to wear the things they like," says founder Michele Yulo.

[...] "Girl clothes without the girly" is the mantra behind Girls Will Be, which includes longer shorts and T-shirts (no pink ones!) with images that seek to break gender stereotypes.

[...] The company buddingSTEM offers a line of girls' clothes celebrating girls' interests in science, engineering, technology and math.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/26/health/moms-girl-empowerment-clothing-parents/index.html?eref=edition

Please, browse the photos. They are full of lovely little girls, minus what I call the "silly frilly" stuff. You might even click some links, and find something fitting for the young lady in your life!

Some might complain that it's a very small start - but the longest journey begins with a single step. Each of these startups seems to be doing pretty much what I've called for - giving the girls what THEY want, rather then telling them what they should want.

One of my favorite T-shirts, seen on girls young and mature, http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=92703208

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @08:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @08:07AM (#229746)

    In the real world (which quite possibly excludes America), Dads make clothes too, and have done for thousands of years. Shop bought clothes are a recent invention - mostly dating from the 60's. Before that, they were had made to order at all levels of society, and in many countries/cultures still are.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @01:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @01:44PM (#229828)
    It's like the mall screen-printing shop just doesn't exist in this world. Also, zazzle.com allows you to custom-create your own clothes...