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Stylish Duds Will Be The Downfall Of Suri Cruise
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Stylish Duds Will Be The Downfall Of Suri Cruise |
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I, on the other hand, was all about getting everything dirty. If a kid wants to get dirty, they will, even if you say not to (believe me, I know).
Anyway, I think this whole thing is being blown out of proportion. But to those few parents who ACTUALLY buy Marc Jacobs for kids: WTF???
Please Mum FTW!
(god, I hope they have Please Mum in the States or I am going to look like a fool....) #kidsdesignerclothes
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Well, sometimes you need a cute dress for your kid to pose in pictures in, or go to a holiday party in, but I think we all know it's not appropriate for the playground. #kidsdesignerclothes
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When it is cold and damp please don't send your daughter in a skirt and thin tights and open toed shoes that she will be cold in. They play outside! Dress for playing in the cold weather.
Send the kid with a jacket EVERY DAY. Again, they play outside, and weather can change.
Put the kid in something with an ELASTIC WAIST BAND. Buttons, zips, snaps and belts are hard for a 3 or 4 year old to manage on their own. Send them in something easy for them to get up and down in the loo. It helps them to be more independent.
They tell the parents this personally, they put it in notes, post stuff on the board over and over but people still don't listen. It is weird because in my mind these are things that make the child's life easier and more comfortable.
(I personally ONLY buy elastic waist trousers for my kids until they can do up buttons and snaps reliably. Fashion be damned, I'm not having my kid pee their-self because the pants were cute!) #kidsdesignerclothes
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Thanks.
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He firmly believes shoes are overrated and why would he wear clean clothes when they are just going to get dirty again? #kidsdesignerclothes
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But kids get older and they change (a lot of kids are very obsessive and finicky anyway). My father's favorite memory was looking at the kitchen window and watching his little princess, dress and all, body-checking a boy twice her age in a particularly vicious game of street hockey. So, I don't worry about Suri. #kidsdesignerclothes
11/06/09
I feel sorry for Suri, really. I wish I could take her to my kid's messy, comfortable daycare, where everyone's having fun in the play kitchen and stacking Legos and wearing dress-up clothes. They finger-paint, and glue things, and sing off-key. I kind of miss being three. #kidsdesignerclothes
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I'm totally on board with the notion that children dressing poorly can mess up the lives of their peers. I wore this tie-at-the-waist Canadian Tuxedo outfit in fourth grade, and my entire class died. #kidsdesignerclothes
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Had you worn an Icelandic tuxedo (ice blue corduroy on ice blue corduoroy), we wouldn't even be having this conversation, because the internet would never have existed.
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So everyone gets their way; she looks sweet to me as she leaves in the morning, she rearranges her clothes to suit herself and I guess the kindy teachers get some kind of evil pride in sending her home looking like a garbage pail kid. It can be a win for everybody! #kidsdesignerclothes
11/06/09
So yes, it makes me sad to see Suri so erm- for lack of a better word- "dolled up". I mean she's an adorable little girl, let her have some fun! Let her make her own choices.
...Reminds me of a "Supernanny" episode where the mom had a SERIOUS issue with letting her girls pick their own outfits out, she was "embarrassed" by their lack of coordination etc. It was really out of control- I mean, what an awful influence when there are already so many awful influences of female beauty expectations.
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My thirty cats would like to record their agreement on this point.
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I just like nice clothes because I like nice clothes and I'd say a lot of people have been like that since the dawn of time, only now it's easier for us to buy nice stuff than learn to make it.
You could say that's being a soulless consumer, but I could say that the time I don't spend learning to sew is not wasted if I'm reading my kids stories or building a tent fort in the lounge. #kidsdesignerclothes
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I hope she goes nuts on the jungle gym at school, dress or no dress. #kidsdesignerclothes
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