Beyonce's Dereon Girls Collection

I always thought Beyonce had a beautiful, elegant look. Course, her shows were something else to be desired. Her dancing made me cringe...crawling on the floor in a manner that had nothing to do with looking for her house slippers (if you know what I mean), gyrating and all that. Sorry, call me old fashioned, but those movements are just a little too nasty for me. Seriously....get a room.

So she and her mother introduced a line of clothing for little girls now. It's the way she has these little girls who look anywhere between 7-9...modeling in stileto heels, slouching like a 'gangsta'... that I find disturbing. I find it even more troubling that these mother's will push this on their girls.

The Knowles’ family business, “House of Dereon,” recently published advertisements for its “Dereon Girls Collection” with young models who look no older than my second-grade daughter. They are seductively posed and tarted up, JonBenet Ramsey-style, with bright lipstick, blush and face powder. Draped in bling, several of the girls sport leather jackets and studded accessories.

One of the children wears sparkly, killer high heels (more pint-size Pussycat Doll than Dorothy from “The Wizard of the Oz”) and another slouches, gangsta gal-style, with a neon pink boa, leopard-skin fedora and stilettos. An even younger model is a toddler-aged Beyoncé Mini-Me with huge hair, skinny jeans, spike-heeled leather boots and attitude to match.

Could it really be a collapse of civilization? God, I hope not.

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