There are three types of clothing for kids that I always loved best of all. Yes, I love footed pajamas and pretty little dresses and whatnot (and I had one moment of ovary-aching “oh, if only I had a boy too!” when I saw a little itty bitty grey suit in a baby store yesterday), but the three things I love best are jeans, overalls, and jogging suits.
You can take the youngest baby, fat rolls and jiggly cheeks and drooly faces and the second you put a pair of jeans on them they look like miniature teenagers. I don’t know what it is about jeans, but it’s true. With both the girls I remember dressing them in jeans for the first time and then thinking, “no no no, no more jeans, she looks too grown-up!” Of course, I do it again the next day because it’s just too cute not to.
Meanwhile, overalls somehow seem to help keep them looking small. Even when you take a really tall four-year-old, somehow those overalls make her look just a little smaller than she really is, and when you’re blinking in confusion and wondering how time has flown by so quickly, that’s kind of nice once in awhile.
Jogging suits are just hilarious and cute. Jogging suits look normal on Hayley but they make babies look like little puffy creatures. It’s like having a marshmallow with legs walking around. I have four jogging suits that fit Breanna right now and I love putting them on her.
Jeans and overalls and jogging suits are definitely easier to deal with than the clothes your average teenager wants to wear, if the mannequins at the mall are any indication. I wandered around a mall with the girls for a couple of hours yesterday (both were wonderfully well behaved) and any time I passed one of the geared-for-teens boutiques, I couldn’t help but wonder if my mother had ever felt the same horror when she walked past the stuff that was in style in my youth, though admittedly, at least it wasn’t super revealing and it didn’t include stuff like g-strings peeking out of low-rise jeans and t-shirts that say “sexy” or “slut” on them; it was the late 80s and early 90s, our stuff was just ugly.
And then I wondered when I got so old.
*phew*… nice to hear someone else that feels winded by the sight of the “little girls” clothing out there. Egad… will this be our reality in 6 or 7 years??
Not to mention that we’ll be double teamed. We’re sunk.
Jogging suits look normal on Hayley but they make babies look like little puffy creatures.
Most of Nick’s clothing is either jogging suits or at least sweat pants and turtlenecks/long-sleeved onesies right now. Why? Well, he’s growing too damn fast. But as for the point about puffy creatures. HA! So true. Love it.
Jogging pants for the boy when he was a baby. Couldn’t stop myself. Now, I think he’s too old for them, so he wears them to bed.
And onesies! Never enough!
I loooooovvvveeee overalls on infants and kids. My philosophy is: all babies should have a pair of overalls. (And usually I buy them for the baby shower, along with a hooter hider.)