When Girls Wear Dresses on the Playground, Things Can Get Complicated

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Photo by Victoria Snowber/ There’s an issue heating up on playgrounds, and forgive me for mentioning it, because it concerns unmentionables — girls’ underpants, to be exact, and whether they should or should not be allowed to show when dresses fly up on the monkey bars. I find it absolutely astonishing.” Roberts, who recalls allowing her now-grown daughters to run around naked on the beach when they were little — and that she was not the only parent to permit it — likens the shorts-under-skirts approach to that of putting a 3-year-old in a bikini.
Photo by Victoria Snowber/ There’s an issue heating up on playgrounds, and forgive me for mentioning it, because it concerns unmentionables — girls’ underpants, to be exact, and whether they should or should not be allowed to show when dresses fly up on the monkey bars. I find it absolutely astonishing.” Roberts, who recalls allowing her now-grown daughters to run around naked on the beach when they were little — and that she was not the only parent to permit it — likens the shorts-under-skirts approach to that of putting a 3-year-old in a bikini.
Photo by Victoria Snowber/ There’s an issue heating up on playgrounds, and forgive me for mentioning it, because it concerns unmentionables — girls