John Lewis has stopped selling a children’s party dress named “Lollita” after it was criticised on social media. The maroon dress, which featured lace embroidered sleeves and a flowing knee-length skirt, is made by clothing brand Chi Chi London and was being sold on the department store’s website.Retailing for £50, it was available in sizes for children aged three to 11 years old.Social media users criticised the dress’s name, which is similar to Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel Lolita.Lolita tells the story of a 12-year-old girl named Dolores who is sexually abused by her middle-aged stepfather, who calls her…
