


Girls have been wearing bikinis for decades, but a recent wave of skimpy swimsuits made for 4- to 8-year-olds by Zara, Dolce & Gabbana and Melissa Odabash (for Gwyneth Paltrow’s e-commerce site, Goop) has reignited a cultural argument: What’s the point in showing all that skin?” “I don’t let my little girl wear a bikini,” says 29-year-old Pleasant Hill mom Katie Sunter, as her 7-year-old somersaults in a striped, rainbow one-piece she picked out at Old Navy. Some, bikinis.Īnd every parent has an opinion about it. The girls in this 10-and-under crowd are wading in the pool wearing all the ruffles, sequins and neon colors currently trending in swimwear.

At the Clarke Swim Center in Walnut Creek, children splash and belly-flop away a Friday afternoon under the sun.
