(Picture: Luis Navar)

This is seven-year-old Eliza Brichto.

She’s hoping to become a Zara kidswear model.

But she doesn’t want to be snapped in their frilly dresses and cute knits; Eliza wants to model their boys’ range.

And she’s written to the Spanish brand explaining why.

‘Dear Zara, My name is Eliza and I’m seven-years-old,’ the letter begins.

‘I’m writing to you because I would like to model for Zara boys.

‘You might think that it’s quite weird that a girl wears boys clothes but anyway let me tell you the story. When I was four, I looked at Zara girls and I wasn’t really sure about the girls’ clothes but then I had a little look at the boys’ clothes and I loved them,’

She says that the only place she shops for clothes now is the boys’ section at Zara.

She’s even posed for a number of photos of her wearing her favourite Zara clothes to show how well she rocks them.

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‘It’s not that she’s anti-girls clothes as such, just that she feels so much more comfortable and more confident in boys clothes,’ her mum Jess tells Metro.co.uk.

‘She’s quick to compliment her friends if they are wearing a beautiful sparkly skirt, she just doesn’t want it for herself. I had a boy first and was so excited about the idea of having a girl and dressing her up in pretty clothes! I got away with it for as long as she didn’t have an opinion and after that, I had no chance!’

The last time Eliza wore a dress was when she was a bridesmaid, aged three.

‘That’s not to say she’s not interested in style and fashion as she has a keen eye on these things – she is really drawn to the Zara boys range, going to the store is such a treat for her, and she would spend hours in their dressing room if you let her, mixing up the looks.’

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Jess says that Eliza’s a ‘total mix’ – both a tomboy who enjoys playing football and a kid who’s ‘certainly proud to be a girl’.

‘But a girl who can do it all.’

She doesn’t see wearing boys clothes as making her any less of a girl. She even wears the boys’s uniform to school – which led people to mistake her for a boy on the first day at her new school.

‘But now all her friends just love her for who she is and it really isn’t an issue at all,’ Jess explains.

‘Sometimes the boys get a little embarrassed if they’re wearing the same clothes as her though out of school. But we live in a really diverse area of London and everyone just accepts people for who they are – I think that’s the same with a lot of kids really – they’re not as judgemental as adults.

‘This is why I’m so proud of her for writing the letter. If the clothes weren’t labelled “girl” or “boy”, there wouldn’t be an issue.

‘It would be great to see more gender-neutral clothing and if Eliza played a small roll in making this happen that would be amazing. I’ve had so many messages from parents around the world since she’s received this attention. All saying that they have girls that feel same as Eliza, saying they love her and that they think she looks so cool. It’s been lovely.’

So, what’s the one thing that Eliza wants us all to know about how girls dress?

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She tells us: ‘You really don’t have to wear girls clothes just because your friends do or people tell you to.’

Oh, to be so woke at such a young age.

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