It's been a bad year for children's swimwear designers, hasn't it? Melissa Odabash and Ashley Paige were both heavily criticised for including skimpy bikinis in their children's collections, and now Elizabeth Hurley has come under fire from children's charities and MPs - not for the skimpiness of her designs, but for the patterns used on them.
Hurley, who launched her collection this week, was forced to withdrawn the swimsuit pictured, plus others like it, when Anne Widdicome (MP) and children's charity NCH said animal print was unsuitable for childrenswear. "'It represents the sexualisation of children," said Widdicome, whilst NCH took a slightly less strident view, with a spokeswoman commenting that although the print is perhaps "inappropriate" for children, "it's important that we don't take the fun out of childhood by being too over the top about what they're wearing." What do you think? Is animal print too sexy for children, or is this going too far?
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