Who Says Kids Need To Shape Up?


by jaech1975 - Date: 2010-08-24 - Word Count: 419 Share This!

I remember watching a video of Madonna performing a concert tour in her lingerie wardrobe as she struts her controversial act on hit-record songs "Like a Virgin." Close to puberty at that time, I imagined myself growing up looking exactly, if not close to looking like her. The evolving time had not failed me, and the plausible solutions to making it happen laid itself like rain in drought. The career I made for myself didn't make it onstage but every day, I walk in the glamor of Dr. Ray's Italian classic Schavi shoes, Victoria's secret sensual cottony tops and cardigans, lavished in silhouette figure with Vedette's Gigi waist cincher. The growing pressure to being one among those we consider a figure becomes evident in time, transforming a personal want to exceeding expectations. An avid fan of women's fashion, I'd relentlessly spend hours with a closest buddy, my laptop, browsing on every update about hottest fashion line in the market. Then I found this appalling shapewear line for kids, specifically designed to serve the same purpose for mature women. Who says kids need to shape up? The reality here slowly sinks in; the seed of imperfection extends to the younger generation whose concerns should be more of bones and organs yet to be developed.

An anatomical structure of children consists of 206 bones, the same as that of a mature human body except that it's still on its way through the developmental process called ossification. The bones of the kids being comparably smaller than adults consist of growth plates that develops into hardened bone usually taking around 20 years to completely mature. With bodyshaper such as corset, innovatively created in compression type garments, its suitability is purportedly oriented towards mature bones aiming at achieving a better figure. What this means is that, the extent of the garment's compression ability is specifically designed for a full grown woman, hence unlikely to be paralleled to a kid's anatomical needs. It is alarming to see that we are putting the younger ones on the line for the interest of expanding the product line's market, without consideration to its bigger risk.

The conclusion herein leads us to being an objective consumer, one that utilizes his/her power to filter out products that meet the needs more than cause harm. Though my fascination for shapewears never cease to impress me, my critic nature and those end users who shares the same thought should guide all providers to responsibly give what we as consumers rightly deserve and need.

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