Are clothing stores pressuring girls into wearing push-up bras and thongs?

[Abnormal]

Now, I wanted to discuss this for the longest time. Its a question that usually...comes to mind every once in awhile when I look for underwear that I want to wear and all I can find are thongs and push-ups bras when I'm not necessarily looking for those things.

In fact, that's all I see...anywhere. Sure, there are other kinds of underwear in the stores, BUT I feel that there are way more of those two specific types of underwear than ANY OTHER kind. I'm not sure if this is just a regional thing or if I'm just looking in the wrong stores. But I can't help but wonder if this is some kind of marketing campaign into getting girls to wear that kind of underwear.

People know already that girls are pressured by that kind of thing by their peers already and I feel that just...seeing all those push-ups bras and thongs only add to it.

Have you noticed what I'm noticing? What are your feelings on this kind of marketing? Do you think this is going to have a negative impact on self-esteem and add to peer pressure amongst teenaged girls? Or am I looking too deeply into this?

[Walter Powers]

Stores try to provide what people want. Simple economics. That's all I'm gonna say.

[TheDeepestDepths]

I'm only talking about myself here, I can't speak for anyone else, but I never felt pressurized into wearing push up bras or thongs. But, I can definitely believe that other girls felt as though they are.

I like wearing thongs and have no issue buying them, but I do find that when I want underwear of a different kind, I have to look in the areas of the shop that aren't on display. Thongs are the underwear that are constantly on display and at the front of the underwear area of the shop. You have to go looking for the other kind.

But, I have a massive problem finding bras which aren't push up. I have fairly large breasts and push up bras may have been fine when I was 13 or 14 and my breasts were small enough to get away with them, but now that I'm 19 they're uncomfortable and ridiculous looking. When I go shopping I either spend ages trying to find a bra that isn't push up or go to the frighteningly expensive lingerie shops.

[britishboy]

no, theyre popular so stores have alot of them!

[Jean Poutine]

The demand to these stores arising from...societal/peer pressure to wear that kind of clothing, maybe?

[TinyDancer]

The demand to these stores arising from...societal/peer pressure to wear that kind of clothing, maybe?

I agree. And from girls/women on TV and in magazines. Not that it's all a bad thing. Fashion changes.