Teenwear

As soon as they have allowances of their own, they’ll be heading down to the mall to buy the latest in teenwear.

The trouble with the women’s clothing market, Liz thought, was that little was available for women who were too old for teenwear and too young for the standard navy business suits.

They’re used to their mothers passing down mysterious, impassioned fragments about the once-upon-a-time tormented life of girls—and then telling them why they can’t do really fun stuff, like cheerlead, or hang out at the mall (not a real possibility for them at six and seven, but something they learned from Polly Pockets), or buy all the really cool high-fashion clothes for girls they see at the stores (trendy teenwear shrunk to fit elementary-school bodies).