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sybann
12/04/08

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How about we let their Mom keep dressing them since she's been doing such a rockin' job of it?
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sybann
12/04/08

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In swansdown and fairy dust as befitting the fruit of the future savior of this once great land.
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LBB
12/04/08

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Our new First Family is so beautiful I could cry. And I hope that Sasha and Malia get to wear jeans and run around and be kids as much as possible.
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Kali Mama
12/04/08

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Dodai, you already picked out their outfits from the J-Crew website?

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georgina
12/04/08

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Hopefully, with all the press these girls are going to get, other girls their age will notice & look up to them. Instead of emulating Miley and whoever else is on Disney in belly shirts & shirts as dresses, they can see 2 great examples of girls their own age. Wishful thinking maybe...
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ellaesther
12/04/08

@georgina: Well, and may I (a white, middle-aged, upper middle-class liberal) say how thrilled I am that our nation's families and children will be taking at least some of their cues from a black family for the next four (dare I say eight??) years?

Ok, I will: Totally! Totally thrilled!

God, I'm so white.
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whatsername
12/04/08

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I just love how fabulously tall everyone in this family is.

On topic, it bothers me a little that Sasha and Malia need to define their style, as seems implicit.
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R_Claw
12/04/08

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What does it say about me that I want to wear those fashions in the drawing and I'm 33? Must have coat and pinafore!
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blyr
12/04/08

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I love Sasha's expression and her hand gesture. It's like "Yes, America, here I am!"

Amazing.
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thatblackgirl
12/04/08

@blyr: She IS ... Sasha Fierce.
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bangers
12/04/08

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I don't know....I really want that Best & Co. jacket! Though it looks suspiciously like a Mark Jacobs piece from about four years ago...
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MizJenkins
12/04/08

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I, for one, think Bravo should develop a reality show in which top designers compete nightly to see what Sasha and Malia are going to wear the next day and America gets to chose the winner by texting in their votes.

I mean for fucks' sake...
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sportz.star
12/04/08

@MizJenkins: I figured this was already in production . . .
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LindsayC: doctoral hilarity ensues
12/04/08

@MizJenkins: I would probably watch this.

Oops! I mean YEAH WHAT YOU SAID!
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bananastand
12/04/08

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Oh, god, that pinfore jumper thing is atrocious. I hope Sasha runs screaming if anyone ever tries to get her to wear it.
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SisterMaryMartha
12/04/08

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Or wearing whatever topped with this:
[www.smallworldtoys.com]

Tscheese I bought this kit for a toydrive yesterday and THOUGHT OF YOU.
Target has it for 10.49.
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Mama Penguino
12/04/08

@SisterMaryMartha: Little Penguino has that kit and I'm so effing sick of being grabbed with that hook I could cry! That said, it's lovely for other people's children! Good pick!
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SisterMaryMartha
12/04/08

@Mama Penguino: Oh thanks! I am rather in tune with kids it seems, despite having none.

Ahem.
I don't wanna grow up,
I'm a Toys'r'us kid,
they got a million toys at Toys'R'Us that I can play with.....
more toys oh boy!
I wanna be a Toys'R'Us Kid!

Ps. I totally want to buy one for my Halloween costume.
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raphaela
12/04/08

@SisterMaryMartha: Thank you for that link. My child wants to be a pirate.
@Mama Penguino: Thank you for the owner-of-a-pirate-child commentary. My child will have to keep wanting to be a pirate.

Re Obama Girls: I have no doubt that their mother can continue to dress them beautifully. Cute, cute kiddos.
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Mama Penguino
12/04/08

@raphaela: Even though we own the fancy official hook, my kid also likes to carry a hangar with the hook out (that hurts!) and begged and pleaded until I gave up one of the shower curtain hooks that she even carries with her to preschool. Hooks! They're for children!
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Mama Penguino
12/04/08

@Mama Penguino: She's pretty small, so my child carries a HANGER not a hangar.
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Easybreezy
12/04/08

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Oh, but that little black velvet number is pretty darling......
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Penny
12/04/08

@Easybreezy: I pretty much wore some version of that until the 4th grade when some boy told me I looked pregnant. My grandmother made the majority of my clothes.

Honestly, I think my mom would love it if I still dressed like that.
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Easybreezy
12/04/08

@Archetype: I hope you kneed that kid in the groin. For shame.

Seriously though--I wish I could commission your grandmother to make my unborn children some dresses like that because I think they are precious.
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LaFemme
12/04/08

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These outfits are totally outdated...

Also, as someone with a sister (also 3 yrs apart like the Obama girls) I think they should stay away from giving the girls matching dresses (as it seems they have, indeed done). This will cause drama. Trust.
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ellaesther
12/04/08

@LaFemme: Ooh, but don't you love how the family as a whole always *kind of* matches on the national stage? The dresses in the picture with the post + Obama's tie, for instance, or all the black and red on Election night. I get way more of a kick out of that than I should, really.
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LaFemme
12/04/08

@ellaesther: Yeah, I really do like this actually. I think they handle it well and their dresses are always different enough, just int he same color family.
@LoSpaz: Yeah, I always thought my sister looked cuter too. But she hated the matching dresses because just as she was growing out of hers there was a replacement waiting, so she feels like she spent her whole childhood (at least with pictures) in the same 6 dresses. Ha.
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labeled
12/04/08

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Uh, as the mother of an actual 11yo girl, NO, girls do not career between those choices alone.
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ellaesther
12/04/08

@labeled: Having said that, I've been complimented more than once on the fact that my five year old daughter "dresses like a little girl" and I've had to think 1) actually, the grown ups pick out the clothes in her wardrobe and 2) what do other little girls dress like...?

Also, see my joy yesterday at being told by a 19 year old that she was horrified that some girls at her college seem to keep forgetting to put on their pants in the morning.
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labeled
12/04/08

@ellaesther: I certainly don't contest that finding age-appropriate clothing can be a bitch. Hell, when an entire society of women and girls seem to treat 21 years old as the ideal, you're going to have issues finding cute jeans for an 11yo OR a 38yo.

But they're out there. And they don't involve dressing like 3 generations ago.

Also, I'm a bitch today.
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ellaesther
12/04/08

@labeled: You're not a bitch. Not a bitch! Gracious. You're asking people to be reasonable. If that's a being a bitch, then I don't want to be (what's the opposite of a bitch) a cat!

Anyhoo, you're right about the availability of options. Mine are most often found at re-sale shops. I actually particularly like one that supports this network of fundamentalist Christian schools...! I don't like their religion, but I'll tell you what, they don't let their girls wear belly shirts!
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CollegeBookworm
12/04/08

@ellaesther: My college has that problem. Leggings =/= pants. Leggings are legwear. You can wear them with a skirt/dress, not a SHIRT.
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