Basically my daughter would be allowed to dress how she wants... it's just I'll only pay for some clothes
. Seriously I hope that my daughter would be intelligent enough not to fall for the media trap of using sexuality to sell clothing.
As for younger kids dressing they way they do now... it was unfortunately to be expected, because I can remember the numerous articles discussing the rising spending power of "tweens". It was simply exploiting another economic niche.
As for Feminism being responsible for the this sexualization of younger and younger girls... BS. I come from a family with a long history of feminism so I have been exposed to the traditional ideals of the movement all my life... and from what I seem to recall it was about the empowerment of women, based on values and charactersitics that were seperate from their sex (and by extension overt expressions of sexuality).