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But I Have Nothing to Wear
In my weird (still!) postpartum state I admit that I don't feel comfortable in many of the things in my wardrobe, but my misfit feelings have extended beyond my own weird size(s). I now am wondering if Felix's clothes are going to be all right for school. I say this, but have not really done much about it. After one week last March where he wouldn't wear anything that came close to fitting, I sat him down with a catalogue and made him choose his summer wardrobe.
This actually worked a bit.
But I think something about the whole "back to school" or in Felix's case "going to school for the first time" is making me recall how sharp sartorial misery can be. A former boyfriend of mine was able to recall with no small bitterness, decades after the fact, how unhappy he was with the incredibly odd pants his mother used to foist upon him, claiming that he just didn't know what was fashionable. I don't want to be that mother. As usual, I am taking my angst about this in stride and ignoring the question entirely.
This approach is working for me as well, though I have recently watched a bunch of episodes of What Not to Wear, (I really like the original UK one as well, but it hasn't aired recently) and now I am ashamed of my shabby dressing but still doing nothing about it.
But hey, it could be worse. I could be trying to shop for a tween girl, the prospect of which sounds completely awful if Emily Yoffe's experience, documented in Slate, is any indication. In centuries past (18th, 19th, early 20th) there were tendencies to dress children as mini-adults, but none of that dressing was quite as sexually intense or revealing as what Yoffe experiences on her shop crawl, 11 year-old in tow. So my question, and forgive my ignorance because I don't have a daughter and I was a horrible dresser in middle school and high school and had few sartorial opinions that could be considered worthwhile, is who is starting the sexy dressing? Is this manufacturers deciding that girls want this or are girls, under the sway of some misguided notion that low-cut pants are comfortable and easy to wear and flattering, demanding it?
posted by Elise at 6:22 AM
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