It's A Girl Thing: Tween Queens and the Commodification of the Girl's Tween Market

A few years of research, thoughts and adjustments that all led to a completed film which, framed by the structure of a faux interactive website for tween girls, looks closely, and critically, at the tween market's evolution and the role of Disney and Nickelodeon's tween queens (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, Miley Cryus, Miranda Cosgrove, Kiki Palmer, Selena Gomez, and more) in the market's explosion.

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Vanity Sizing...That Store Makes You Feel Fat? Just Come to Limited Too...we'll take care of you.


Tween Brands, Inc. NYSE: TWB,formerly known as Too, Inc., operates two store concepts: Limited Too and Justice. Limited Too sells apparel, underwear, sleepwear, swimwear, lifestyle and personal care products aimed at girls aged 7-14. Justice, launched in 2004, sells sportswear and accessory items for girls aged 7-14. Justice operates at mainly non-mall locations such as power strip and specialty centers. The brand currently operates 572 Limited Too and 160 Justice stores.

Vanity Sizing: While operating as The Limited Too, stores were proven to practice vanity sizing, leaving inaccuracies in clothing sizes, often making the girl feel overweight at other stores. (example: a girl who would wear a size 12 at other stores would wear a 10 or even an 8 at Limited Too stores).

1 Comments:

At 8:50 PM, Blogger Chase W said...

Hahaha, one of my friends works at Limited Too...I'm gonna confront her about that :-P

 

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