Wilson, E. (2011, February). The Kiddie Couturiers. The New York Times. Retrieved from May 5, 2011, from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/fashion/24KIDDIES.html?_r=1.
My favorite sentence of this article is: “But the fact that fashion has become a field that is so easy for a tween to crack says a lot about how much the perception of a designer has changed. The allure of fashion is no longer the craft, but the flash.” This sums up the whole story about tweens cracking the fashion industry. The article gave so many young examples of tweens who have designed their own clothing lines or have made their own clothes. Some of the examples include when they actually started learning the craft. One example, shares that a girl asked for a sewing machine for her sixth birthday. The article includes the tween’s parents perspective on their tween’s gift.
I found that this article demonstrates what an influence the tween population can have on society. It also shows that tweens can do anything that they wish to do. This would be a great article to share with tweens that feel that they cannot do anything great. I enjoyed the pictures of the tweens with some of their work. These tweens do have a creative eye. I hope that these tweens are learning from their experiences the meaning of saving money for items that they need for their business or their college education. I also hope that none of their parents are using them to gain fame themselves as some celebrity parents have done. Lastly, I can see the pressures getting to them as they sell more products. I hope that they have been able to handle this new balancing act of their lives from these early ages.
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