Tonight, I can't sleep (second night in a row, yeehaw) so I thought I'd better get a jump on it since I will no doubt find the sandman somewhere around 3 a.m. and 5:45 a.m. will pass me right by.
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I was thinking about my post the other week about budget fashion. I need shorts for my girls and have been watching sales and actually reading all the annoying email alerts from their favorite stores.
I like to be kind of "cool" about what the kids wear...for example, when BubbaB8 came down the other day wearing jeans of a camouflage-patterned material and a shirt of the exact same colors but that had some kind of map on it, I said, "Oh. You're wearing those together today, huh? Or did you want to change your shirt?" He said, "Nope, don't need to change, I'm wearing this." O.k., bud. If he's comfortable, who am I to complain?
Some of the dumbest fashion trends have come down because someone wore some stupid thing that struck some other poor soul as "cool" on that day, and they carried it on.
Who am I to lessen his chances of being the cool one that some dufus copies?
Rock on, Bubba, Rock on!
Has anyone noticed I tend to get off topic a lot?
What I really wanted to post about was the girls' shorts. I mean, have you seen the shorts the teens wear?
You probably haven't actually seen them because there is so little material that they look more like a BELT than shorts.
The girls wear them with spandex shorts under them for modesty, but still.
I was talking to Neonatal Nurse Nancy the other day, as I do most days of my life, and we were reminiscing about the youthful, beautiful bodies we had
We talked about how short our shorts were, among other things. I was remembering in particular a skirt my father had a talk with me about concerning its length, or in his opinion, lack thereof.
Looking at teenagers today, the clothes of my youth looked like a nun's habit in comparison.
I think.
Or am I just old and not cool enough to remember?
I bought a pattern for a "Project Runway" pair of shorts. It looks like no butt cheeks would be exposed in these shorts, and I think the "Project Runway" label will win my girls over. I'm going to give it a shot, even though I don't quite understand why the pattern's smallest size is an 8. It's going to take a miracle to get that down to a 00, which is what my girls need.
Wish me luck, and please notify me of any fabulous sales on shorts with more than a 3" inseam!
I'm getting tired. Maybe I will be able to sleep now, since I won't be thinking about my blog. Or maybe I will go lay in bed and think about Tuesday's post!
3 comments:
I am amazed at the clothes for teenage girls. I know that my mother wouldn't have let me walk out of the house in some of those shorts and skirts--frankly I don't understand how the girls walk or sit in them!
I'm so happy I have two boys. My biggest fight is they can't wear the same shirt all week-end, it has to be washed.
I just don't think girls understand the message the clothes send. I know i didn't at their age.
Good luck fighting that battle and finding cute, modest clothes for them.
You're right about the clothing changing a lot. And this reminded me of that Nair commercial from the 80's!
@ Charlene - you are so right! I'm getting through the girls now...by the time the boys are teenagers and bring me their own issues, at least I will be through the girl phase of it, ha!
@ Holly - I totally think that theme song all the time, it was so fitting I had to post with it!
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