Anyone who knows me can attest, I’m not very frou-frou. I don’t like a lot of ornamentation and feel overly embellished if I were to wear, say, a necklace and dangly earrings. I think it stems from a childhood of big hair. (Note: I just searched the internet to make sure dangly is a word… turns out it isn’t. Am I the only one who’s been saying dangly?) Even when I was just a lass with little girlie-girl inclinations, I still eschewed characters on my clothes. Sweatshirts with teddy bears? Not this second grader.
And before I had kids, I’m pretty sure I thought to myself, “Hmmm. When I have kids, I don’t think I’ll dress them up in little outfits with ducks and sheep. What is this enduring baby barnyard fashion trend? No, definitely not.”
I’ve totally changed my mind.
When it comes to picking out clothes for Jake and Nake, I encourage, I endorse, I depend upon apparel adornment. I never knew I would be reduced to selling the virtues of donning duds based on product features such as:
“Do you want to wear your doggie shirt or your dinosaur shirt?”
“Come here and put these monkey socks on!”
(sing song voice) “Look, Haaaandy Maaaaanny pj’s…”
It’s pretty shocking how effective animals and race cars can be at getting clothes onto resistant, wriggly little bodies. I still shy away from cartoon characters as they seem to promote unwanted whining and begging in public places. But, sweatshirts with teddy bears? Now I know why that’s all Gap Kids sells.
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