Pastel polka-dot skirt, neon pink and black tights, a blue hoody, and boots.

[LaraMN]

That's what my daughter left the house in this morning (under her parka, anyway).

Please tell me that letting her exercise choice about what she wears now will quash the intensity of her wardrobe rebellion later on...

:rofl:

[ThomCat]

1. Could it get worse?

:P

[LaraMN]

2. Experience suggests that it could.

:rofl:

[ThomCat]

5. You better hope she has some gay friends with fashion sense

in high school. :P

[LaraMN]

6. Yeah. I was kind of hoping for a gay son, but I think that's out.

So she'll have to search outside the immediate family.

[SoxFan]

3. Yes. I could leave the house wearing that.

[LaraMN]

4. I really want you to.

Pics!

:bounce:

[Beer Snob-50]

7. does the skirt at least somewhat match the tights?

not that my opinion means much. Mrs beersnob-50 feels that i am a hopeless case when it comes to this stuff.

[LaraMN]

8. Not in the remotest sense.

They could barely match less.

:rofl:

[mcctatas]

9. Christ that sounds like me in the 80's!

if it is any consolation, I grew up to be a pretty normal dresser. Plus, I would be over the moon if I could get my younger daughter to wear anything other than black clothes and combat boots :P

[LaraMN]

10. Have you got an emo?!

:rofl:

[mcctatas]

14. She is channeling Johnny Cash...

with a touch of emo/goth angstieness for sure :P

[MorningGlow]

11. MG Jr. wore his pajamas to school today

Good thing it was pajama day.

[LaraMN]

12. Ha! One of my classmates showed up to school in his pajamas last semester.

It was particularly amusing, as his pajamas were satin and magenta.
He claimed he woke up really, really late, but I had to wonder if he lost a bet.

[MorningGlow]

17. Wow! How very "Hef" of him!

:rofl:

That reminds me of when I was in college (back when dinosaurs roamed the earth). It was a small school; there was only one cafeteria, in one of the oldest buildings on campus, that nearly everyone had to hike to--except for the lucky upperclassmen who lived on the two floors above the cafeteria. (Those rooms were primo lottery picks--I got in there in senior year and was eternally grateful.) The residents of that building would wait for the absolute nastiest weekend day of the year--subzero temps, blowing snow, etc.--and all get together and go to the cafeteria in their pajamas, just to piss off everyone else on campus.
:rofl:

[Midlodemocrat]

13. I wish I could. :sigh:

TM used to wear a 'dot dress', a black and white polka dotted dress for YEARS. Literally. It was a size 2 and she wore it until kindergarten. She also had an outfit that was like SillyWhim in the Sillyville video. Wore that when it was cold. All the time.

Now? She's the ultimate clothes horse. Nothing like her mother. Thank God for Forever 21 and other inexpensive stores. She can indulge without bankrupting moi.

[LaraMN]

15. Awww!

MrLara took Sophie school shopping last fall, and I could have killed him, because he let her buy stuff I would NEVER allow- like a $35 dollar skirt that was a piece of crap. For a six-year-old!

The other month he was getting ready to take her to a movie and he told her that they were JUST going to watch the movie, they were NOT getting snacks or pop.
She came home and announced, "Dad got me popcorn and a slushie and some candy!"


:P

[Midlodemocrat]

16. Of course he did. Men cannot resist their little girls.

Even now, when I say 'No' to TM, she flounces and huffs 'Fine. I will ask Daddy'. :eyes:

He is absolutely putty in their hands. Which is why I really, really hope I like cat food. It's what's for dinner when I retire.

[1gobluedem]

18. My girls were like that at that age

We took them to a children's symphony performance when they were in kindergarten. Their father told them that people 'dress up' for the symphony then left them to their own devices. Twin #1 wore: purple velvet and organdy dress, black mary janes, and blue cotton tights with white snowmen on them. Twin #2 wore a black velvet skirt with a slit that had white appliqued flowers on either side (talked Grandma into it), white cable cotton tights, a truly hideous top she conned her father into; yellow waffle cloth that had a photo of a dog on it, with red chiffon sleeves, and brown leather closed heel clogs. They were so proud of their choices I couldn't insist they change; then when I asked Dad how on earth he could okay those choices he said "Why? What's wrong with them?"

Of course this is the man who clung to his turquoise OP shorts for so long I had to 'accidentally' knock over a bottle of bleach onto them to get rid of them.

[jobycom]

19. Depends. If she's trying to get your attention by rebelling, and you give approval instead

then she may escalate. On the other hand, if she's trying to test her limits, and you give her broad limits, then she may draw back and realize she should dress for appearance rather than rebellion and start coordinating. Or, she may just be developing her own style rather than rebelling against anything, in which case she may slowly develop a more stylish but still unique appearance all her own.

And you'll probably never figure out which is true. :)