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How 'over the top' do you dress DD for school?
This is from an observation and for future reference. I love dressing my girls in over the top outfits, bows made to match. Hats with big flowers. They do stand out at times, but they are almost 4 and 18m.
Today Blaire and I had lunch with my neice at school. I did my student teaching at this school and the SLP I was with dresses her DD like that for school every.day. I saw her today and that child stood out like a sore thumb. I mean, other kids looked cute and all, One of the 1st grade teachers is a close friend of mine and told me that's how she looks everyday. Like wearing Bailey Boys or Potatoe Saks on a daily basis. Almost like she's trying to prove something... which sounds like something this Mom would want to do.
I wouldn't want my girls ruining those outfits on the playground or in art class. And, FYI, some of the stuff Blaire wore last winter and this past summer were bought second hand from her. 3T's and such. Blaire goes to pre-K 2x week and she wears comfortable play clothes. I've about quit putting hairbows in her hair for school b/c she takes them out and I never see them again.
Just curious.
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Re: How 'over the top' do you dress DD for school?
She's not in school yet, but I rarely get DD all dressed up for anything other than church or other special occasions. She always matches and has clean clothes on if we go anywhere, but she's harder on clothes than DS is. She'd make my cry every day over ruined clothes if I did that.
I would assume for school she'll wear leggings/skirt/T or jeans/T or sweaters. Her hair will be 'done' to the extent of ponytail/piggies/front pulled back. Headbands get taken off too easily, and we don't really have any big frilly bows.
LOL, Giada is always dressed very nice with matching bows, nice shoes or Ugg boots and now for the winter has her Corky's Coat on and is still wearing her Corky's Coat from last year also. Even though she is always dressed very nicely her outfits come from Gap, Gymboree, hand me downs from my sister's daughter and various other stores. Her outfits are not dresses everyday. She wears nice jean outfits, Hanna Andersson Dresses, matching jogging outfits, etc and still always looks put together...I don't see a problem with this at all.
of course you don't
Well, my dd doesn't go to preschool yet nor does she even own anything that fancy to begin with. She's most likely going to be starting preschool in January and I imagine that I'll just send her in her normal everyday clothes: she mostly likes to wear comfy knit dresses with leggings.
Dd's clothes are "nice" (mostly Tea, Hanna Andersson, Mini-Boden, some Gymboree and Gap, a few Target/Old Navy things to round it all out, etc.) but they're still basic sturdy cotton knits and I wouldn't have a problem with her getting them messy. I buy most of her things at thrift stores, Once Upon a Child, eBay, hand-me-downs, end-of-season super clearances, etc. so it isn't the end of the world to me if something gets stained.
And, I gotta agree with Gibs. There's nothing cute about a pretentious, entitled diva child.
I am cracking up at this post because I feel like everyone is talking a different language....baily boys? and corky coats? I never heard of these companies...LOL!
My son looks very nice when he goes to school, but not over the top, and always with comfortable clothes/shoes.
I think you can dress a kid nicely (and even in expensive stuff if you so desire) w/out making them stand out like a sore thumb. I know when I sent Jackson to MMO before he was PT'd (now that he is I send to preschool in more casual outfits so he can go to the bathroom on his own easily), I always sent him in whatever I felt like putting on him, including expensive clothing. It never got ruined even if stuff got on it (I'm a master stain fighter), and I don't think he ever stood out.
Maybe he did though...his teacher did once say he was the class fashion plate to my husband.
I will say this is why I like uniforms, haha.
Ha! Maybe that's the reason I don't mind letting my kids wear their "nice" clothes pretty much whenever they want- I'm pretty much a master stain fighter too, LOL. In 6 years of parenting I've *maybe* had a handful of stains that I couldn't remove. It also helps that my kids are fairly neat by nature and aren't too hard on their clothes. Ds can wear a pair of sneakers daily for 6 months and when he outgrows them they still look virtually brand-new.
Totally agree!
Me too, but that being said there's a difference between nice and over-the-top fussy. Nice can be simple/practical or it can be ostentatious/showy...
and when I said I bought some of Blaire's "over the top" stuff from this woman, I just meant I let her spend the big money on it and pay to have the matching bow made. I just buy some of our super cute stuff at a cheaper price.
Plus, Natalie gets to wear it too one day.
I too fight stains like there's no tomorrow. Shout-it-out, OxyClean, plus there is this liquid stuff I found at Hobby Lobby of all places that works wonders on stains already washed and dried.
I'll have to get it out and tell you all what it is.
I try very hard to keep ML in comfortable shorts/t-shirts, because they do a lot of running outside and I don't want dresses/skirts tripping her up. But, she is quite girly. Lately, her reward for not wetting her bed is choosing her own clothes and she always gravitates toward the skirts. She'd wear a dress everyday if I let her wear dresses to school (they seem way too billowy and cumbersome for the playground).
There are definitely three types of dressers at her school. There's poor her, forced to dress for comfort (but she does have a ton of cute shorts and shirts). There are the super dressed up ones with matching bows/ribbons and perfect hair. There is one in particular I've told ML to stay away from because she has violent tendencies. I have no idea if the fact that her mother dresses her up like an AG doll everyday has anything to do with that, but she is definitely my least favorite classmate. And then there are the extremely fashionable ones; twinkle toes and Uggs, Coach purses (yes, for 5 year olds), and Kenneth Cole Kids denim jackets.
I don't judge anyone, but I definitely think it creates a certain type of mentality when you dress your 5 year old up like a doll everyday, or allow her to wear $200 boots.
...yeah, my kids wear sweatpants. That's what they're comfortable in, and that's what's easy for them to pull down to use the bathroom.
People who judge my kids (or me) for that can suck my left nut.
You can dress your kid in nice and/or pricey clothing without having them look like a wedding cake barfed on them.
It's the wedding cake barf that makes me agree with gibs.
Totally agree with this. The most fashionable store I shop at for DD is the Gap. The fancy frilly stuff just isn't my style, so I just don't buy it. That solves the problem of having her be too dressed up for school.
Charlotte Ella 07.16.10
Emmeline Grace 03.27.13
I don't know what Hanna Anderson or Tea or Matilda Jane or Twinkle toes are either.
LOL. My kid has 2 pairs of shoes. She loves tunics and leggings. she owns one dress, and I just bought her first hairbow last month.
PS. She looks nice for school. Consistent with the other kids in school. Our city is casual though. People wear jeans everywhere here.
Jeans or legging and cotton shirts. ON, Target, Carter's - most of it is $4-6 per item. And cotton dresses. I'll send them in pricier jeans because they hold up to anything.
I save the nicer stuff for picture day or a weekend when they are with me and not making a mess.
They'd look cute in a paper bag. As long as they are dressed in clean clothes, that match (most of the time, if she picked her own outfit it probably doesn't), and are comfortable, we are good to go.
DD2 11.17.08