T-shirts for children with nipple tassels, knives and swear words

SWEAR words, violent images and sexual innuendoes printed on T-shirts designed for very young children have outraged parent groups.

Children s tshirts with swear words violent images and sexual innuendos have outraged parents Children's tshirts with swear words, violent images and sexual innuendos have outraged parents

The bad-taste garments are on sale on the internet for £16.

One, designed for babies aged six months to a year, bears the slogan: “I’ve done **** all today”. Another T-shirt in the same range has nipple tassels while other designs show a grey-haired granny hitting a cartoon lamb with a stick, and a footballer drop-kicking a toy rabbit.

There were also designs featuring various logos stating A is for Ashtray, B is for Beer, J is for Joint, the last one with a picture of a marijuana cigarette, and another design, K is for Knife. All these have now been withdrawn from sale by clothing company Twisted Twee.

Last night Margaret Morrissey, of Parents Outloud, which campaigns for good standards in education and society, said: “This is out of order.

“We’ve had the Government this week telling us we need to teach children respect. If we are allowing this sort of thing to be marketed to children we are on the rocky road to nowhere. I’m not a Mary Whitehouse figure but we cannot think we are going to teach children standards if we put them in T-shirts with rude words on them.”

Nick Seaton, of the Campaign for Real Education, which aims to raise standards in schools, said: “Most people will think this is totally wrong.

“Some of these slogans and images actually appear to be ­designed to encourage bad ­behaviour and I would question their legality. I’m surprised ­people would buy this rubbish.”

Shadow minister for children Tim Loughton said the T-shirts were “incredibly offensive”. He added: “At a time when there is so much concern about children becoming educated in adult culture at too young an age this sets an even worse example than we have been used to.

“It is turning babies and toddlers into crawling joke boards for the gratification of adults who should know better. It’s incred­ibly offensive.”

One young mother who saw the company’s website while searching for baby clothes said: “I would like to think I am fairly open-minded but I found these clothes sickening. I won’t be buying any.

“Nipple tassels on a T-shirt for pre-school girls may seem quite the thing for a London trendy, but I find it highly inappropriate.”

Suzi Warren, owner and des­igner of Twisted Twee, based in Camden, north London, refused to comment.

She has in the past claimed on her internet pages that her controversial designs represent her own ironic reaction at seeing toddlers dressed up as “mini Britneys”– a reference to pop star Britney Spears.

Twisted Twee also markets ­Political Pants – undergarments for children up to the age of two.

Priced £10 each, they bear pictures of Gordon Brown, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill and Barack Obama.

Camden Council trading standards department said it had ­received no complaints.

A spokesman added: “Trading standards have no powers to ­remove the goods because they are not counterfeit and do not pose a risk to public safety.

“Where residents or visitors find items of clothing offensive we would encourage them to ­report the matter to the police.”

Scotland Yard said it had ­received no complaints about the clothing.

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