Slutty clothes for kids is nothing new. From LL Cool J’s “relaxed and sexy” clothes for kids to Beyonce’s prosti-tot chic Dereon for girls line to Target’s thongs for seven-year-olds.

But a new company, Twisted Twee led by designer Suzi Warren, has taken this to a new low. Designing clothes for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, Warren has gone far beyond crass and vile. Her children’s clothes feature profanity, sexual innuendo, and other inappropriate material.

Here are a few examples:

Her “child un-friendly alphabet” features things like C for condom, K for knife, and X for… a pig having sex with a duck. Remember, these are items supposedly being marketed for children.

The designer makes this feeble defense, saying she’s doing it “in protest” of the slutty chic reigning in children’s fashions these days:

“The Nipple Tassel t-shirt was designed as a response to my own distaste at seeing mini versions of sexy clothes on young children,” she wrote. “Five-year-olds wearing slashed mini skirts and boob tubes, little thumb-sucking Britneys.

“There is nothing very sexy about a baggy, lap neck, long sleeved t- shirt for a 6-month-old. So by embellishing this style of garment with printed nipple tassels, the result is not that the baby becomes sexualized by the tassels, but that the tassels are made benign and silly by the baby. In fact the more inert, innocent and unaware the infant is, the more ludicrous the contrast becomes.”

… “I totally agree with critics who feel that young girls are put under enormous pressure by the media, the fashion industry and the content of many TV programs, to be aware of their appearance, and then dissatisfied with it,” she added. “The trap set to ensnare girls into a life-time of preoccupation with their looks is a subtle one.

“My garments are not part of this trap because they are about a subtle as a blinking brick and are aimed at parents of children too young to read or speak.

“If you are wondering who would be heartless enough to put their tiny daughters in Nipple Tassel t-shirts, it is often their grandparents who think the design ‘cheerful.’ Or the parents of boys who think the whole gender bender things a bit of a hoot.

“Most of Twisted Twee’s t-shirt designs are a response to some baffling thing or other our daughter Betty has done, and celebrate the befuddlement of parenthood and the idiocy of life. We call the things we make pieces of Object D’aft. That is what the Nipple Tassel t-shirt is. A bit of lunacy.”

… “I guess my answer would simply be if you have doubts about it, don’t buy it,” she wrote [regarding parents with older children noticing the sexual innuendo]. “Your daughter is probably smart enough, self confident enough and relaxed enough to share the irony, but maybe she’d hate it and become very angry about it and that’s probably not a bad thing either. Dressing a baby probably shouldn’t be laden with social significance.”

I’m pretty sure that’s the worst defense of slutty kids clothing I’ve ever heard. First, her clothing designs run up to kids who are in preschool. I am a preschool teacher, and trust me — kids as young as two understand much more than many adults give them credit for. Putting a two or three year old in a shirt adorned with nipple tassles or a condom on it is inappropriate, regardless of how “ironic” and “whimsical” the designer may claim it to be.

However, as I’ve said before, I don’t blame the designer. It may be crass and vile and awful, but who would be really responsible for this? The same people who make it possible for these kinds of clothes to flourish, the same people who buy Bratz dolls and let their little girls wear skirts with “JUICY” stamped across the butt. It’s the PARENTS. We live in a capitalist country, and people are entitled to create just about any product they want to, regardless of how disgusting that product may be. However, if parents didn’t buy the prosti-tot clothes for their girls, the demand would plummet and designers would likely stop making them. Why? Because businesses exist to make money, and if there is no market for slutty children’s clothes, then most businesses won’t continue making them. They’ll try something else to get their customers back. It’s the parents who have the power here, not the designer. And when parents allow their children to become oversexualized, it causes a myriad of problems — depression, low self-esteem, eating disorders, unhealthy emotional and sexual self-image. So regardless of how much Mom may love gyrating to Britney Spears’ music filled with sexy lyrics, or dressing her daughter to match her in her JUICY Coutoure with the brand name (JUICY) stamped across the butt, they really should refrain. It kills me to see parents who let their kids get away with it, and while it certainly doesn’t help that designers continue to make it available, the parents are the ones with the wallets. An eight-year-old cannot walk into Limited Too and buy a shirt that says “So Many Boys, So Little Time” on her own, nor can a two-year-old go online and order herself a t-shirt with nipple tassles. It’s the parents fault here.

And, as I’ve said before, the ones who subject their children to this should be deeply, deeply ashamed. Unless we want a new generation of Paris Hiltons, Britney Spears’, and Lindsay Lohans, it needs to stop.