Primark was last night unavailable for comment

The high street chain, Primark, is selling £4 bikini sets which give children a “breast shape” alongside normal costumes in their seven to eight-year-old range.

The halterneck tops come in candy pink with gold stars or black with white polka dots.

Last night parents and children’s groups called for the clothes to be withdrawn saying they could make girls targets for paedophiles.

Jenny Stallard, deputy editor of Practical Parenting and Pregnancy magazine, said: “A padded bikini for seven-year-olds is too much at too young an age.

“No wonder girls are confused about their bodies and self image.”