# Odd and inappropriate things on children's clothing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 29, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014 "2006-12-29T18:45:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/21 "2006-12-30T16:12:13Z")
I lived in China for two years. I saw the following clothes on 12-13 year old girls. 1. One girl had a picture of a woman exiting a store. The woman had boxes piled up to the sky. The store? **"Sex Shop"** 2. One girl wore a skirt that had “Hottie” written on the seat. I’m trying to think of more. There were countless hilarious shirts the kids wore. ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/22 "2006-12-30T17:37:30Z")
[Lots of crap served here](http://melissamaples.com/2006/12/20/we-didnt-have-trouble-getting-a-table/) ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/23 "2006-12-30T18:20:31Z")
[QUOTE=brownie55] I thought you meant like the 12-13 year old I saw in the airport with “Juicy” across her ass. [/QUOTE] I think it’s inappropriate for _any_ girl who hasn’t yet reached the age of consent to have words blazed on their bums. Regardless of what they say. ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/24 "2006-12-30T18:26:38Z")
[QUOTE=Pygmy Rugger] I think it’s inappropriate for _any_ girl who hasn’t yet reached the age of consent to have words blazed on their bums. Regardless of what they say. [/QUOTE] I agree, unless the word is “Jailbait”. Then, its a fair warning. ---
**Author:** ![NgaireLowndes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9a28c/32.png) [@NgaireLowndes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NgaireLowndes)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/25 "2006-12-30T18:37:49Z")
Hooo boy I see that a lot. But then I work online turning texts that have been translated from Japanese into ‘English’ into REAL English, and it can take a while to figure out what is actually intended by a seemingly random arrangement of words. I think the sexual connotations of the messages on little girls’ clothing are not random, however. It happens too often to be random. ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/26 "2006-12-30T19:16:36Z")
I win. My cousin’s 8 year old female friend is wearing a hand-me-down shirt that says… Wait for it… AS SEEN IN PORN! ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/27 "2006-12-31T03:00:44Z")
My toddler son was given a pair of shorts by his Japanese grandmother, with a cute little dog picture on one leg, and a bone and some writing on the other leg - which read, “IT’S A BIG BONE!” He didn’t get to wear those ones much… And our local corner shop Granny wore an apron with some gambolling puppies and the slogan “Boys will be boys, WANKO!” on it. (Wan-ko in Japanese is baby talk for little doggies - nothing rude about it at all!) My dad just about had a stroke when he saw it when he came to visit us. And I used to really enjoy eating the chocolate named “Nuts On Parade”. That got withdrawn from sale fairly quickly so I think someone must have put them onto what it might mean to foreigners. And my friend had a sweatshirt that read “We are all prostitutes.” Was that bad English or bad philosophy??? ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/28 "2006-12-31T04:12:36Z")
I have two Engrish shirts (real ones from Japan). One with a picture of a puppy that says > [@](#): > > Polished individual wears will set off > your character > to advantage > more than any words And another that has a skull and some musical notes and says > [@](#): > > Shocking Exploration > Thousandclub > WE DON’T KNOW EXISTS. > THEY BECOME FEAR > IN THE DARKNESS > AND A PAIR. I love them. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/29 "2006-12-31T14:35:33Z")
> [@](#): > > **Dijon Warlock** said: > She frequently wore a t-shirt that said “JUICY” in very juicy dripping letters. > > The shirt fit, so “JUICY” as a caption on 12-13 year old girls’ clothes has been around for decades, at least. It’s Juicy as in Juicy Couture? They’ve been around for a while, and make stuff for babies, kids and adults. In that case, they want ‘Juicy’ on their ass so that everyone knows their clothes came from Juicy Couture. After all, if you’re going to wear a $216 track suit, everyone needs to know how much it cost! ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/30 "2006-12-31T15:07:16Z")
There was a chocolate bar called “big nuts” at one point. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Surb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@The\_Surb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Surb)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/31 "2006-12-31T15:20:28Z")
[QUOTE=catsix] It’s Juicy as in Juicy Couture? They’ve been around for a while, and make stuff for babies, kids and adults. In that case, they want ‘Juicy’ on their ass so that everyone knows their clothes came from Juicy Couture. After all, if you’re going to wear a $216 track suit, everyone needs to know how much it cost! [/QUOTE] So maybe the girl I saw with “ **juicy** ” TATTOOED on her neck was just a walking billboard? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/32 "2006-12-31T18:31:23Z")
I once saw a toddler in a park wearing a t-shirt that had the words **I’m Short Shit** on it. Inappropriate? Um, yes, a little bit. ---
**Author:** ![dre2xl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@dre2xl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dre2xl)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/33 "2006-12-31T20:09:23Z")
[QUOTE=sperry] There’s a website all about Japanese mis-use of English. (see [www.engrish.com](http://www.engrish.com)) Some very funny stuff. [/QUOTE] Sounds like the way we use French in beauty products! I wonder if our French is screwed up as well. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/34 "2007-01-02T06:30:42Z")
[QUOTE=catsix] It’s Juicy as in Juicy Couture? They’ve been around for a while, and make stuff for babies, kids and adults. In that case, they want ‘Juicy’ on their ass so that everyone knows their clothes came from Juicy Couture. After all, if you’re going to wear a $216 track suit, everyone needs to know how much it cost! [/QUOTE] That, I couldn’t tell you. What I _could_ tell you is that it was around 1975-7ish (middle school for the two of us), and the young lady in question was obviously a welfare case (not her fault, mind you), so it didn’t seem as if it could have been something that was a deliberately purchased fashion statement…at least, not at retail. More of a second-hand/hand-me-down/yard-sale/no-one-else-wanted-it-but-it-was-still-technically-useful-if-you-don’t-have-any-socially-standardized-pride kind of thing. I wasn’t offended by it, personally (although a lot of jokes swirled around it); it just looked like something that her family picked up for from a garage sale or a landfill because it was cheap/free. All these years later, I wish I’d have talked to her and tried to make friends, because for the short time that she was at our school, I don’t think anyone did. Kids can be such a$$holes. > [@Pygmy Rugger](#): > > I think it’s inappropriate for any girl who hasn’t yet reached the age of consent to have words blazed on their bums. Regardless of what they say. WHICH “age of consent”? Yours? Theirs? Mine? Someone else’s? Do I _really_ need to go on with this to demonstrate conclusively the fallacy of your point of view? Really? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/35 "2007-01-02T07:17:05Z")
The age of consent as determined by their country of residence? Without putting words in **Pygmy Rugger’s** mouth, I would guess that was where he was going with that remark. What is so objectionable about that viewpoint? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/36 "2007-01-02T07:45:10Z")
> [@](#): > > English is used as a design element in Japanese products and advertising to give them a modern look and feel (or just to “look cool”). And in Spanish clothing, Portuguese clothing, Chinese clothing, Italian clothing… sometimes the designers are trying to write in English but get it wrong (international travelers, just think of hotel and tourist store signs); sometimes they just throw a bunch of words together. Dad, who was as straightlaced a guy as ever walked this Earth, came home one summer day saying “I just saw a cute 15yo with an ultra-tight ‘kiss me, stupid’\* shirt. Almost _did_… wonder if she’s got the slightest idea what the sign means?” \*in English in the original, of course. And that movie was one of Dad’s favourites. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/37 "2007-01-02T08:35:18Z")
I would be scared of any food substance called [Cat Milk](http://melissamaples.com/pb/06-12-30.jpg). And I have a bit of Engrish I found a while back… [Here’s a link.](http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3007/keinenla7.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/38 "2007-01-02T13:39:28Z")
Is the “BUM” line still around? i always had to stifle a laugh-when I saw a young girl with “BUM” plastered across her back! Its like proclaiming to the world “hey, look at me, I’m a bum!” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/39 "2007-01-02T14:12:48Z")
[QUOTE=dre2xl] Sounds like the way we use French in beauty products! I wonder if our French is screwed up as well. [/QUOTE] Maybe in beauty products, but our French in food products is impeccable. I’m salivating about my upcoming lunch where I’ll have a shredded steak sandwich with _au jus_. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014/40 "2007-01-02T14:25:48Z")
Oooh, I just remembered, over the summer I saw a guy with the word “FUCK” _tattooed_ on his arm. That one made me do a double-take. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-inappropriate-things-on-childrens-clothing/386014.md?page=3)