![]() ![]() ![]() It’s blue and pink with Hello Kitty faces covering the top and bottom. Or maybe a suit like the one 4-year-old Parmida Vehdat wears as she plunges in and out of the kiddie pool at the Clarke Swim Center. To promote a healthy body image, Santa Cruz clinical psychologist and mother Lucie Hemmen says girls should wear swimsuits that feel good, look good and function well. Parents and child advocates say it really depends on the suit. In a society where women are sexualized at younger and younger ages, are two-piece bathing suits inappropriate for youngsters, or are we making a big deal out of nothing? Some people argue that the very conversation is the problem: That by talking about it, we are teaching girls that what they wear can lead to sexual victimization. Girls have been wearing bikinis for decades, but a recent wave of skimpy swimsuits made for 4- to 8-year-olds by Zara, Dolce & Gabbana and Melissa Odabash (for Gwyneth Paltrow’s e-commerce site, Goop) has reignited a cultural argument: What’s the point in showing all that skin?” “I don’t let my little girl wear a bikini,” says 29-year-old Pleasant Hill mom Katie Sunter, as her 7-year-old somersaults in a striped, rainbow one-piece she picked out at Old Navy. Some, bikinis.Īnd every parent has an opinion about it. The girls in this 10-and-under crowd are wading in the pool wearing all the ruffles, sequins and neon colors currently trending in swimwear. ![]() At the Clarke Swim Center in Walnut Creek, children splash and belly-flop away a Friday afternoon under the sun. ![]()
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