Dressing A Daughter
Cross-posted from my Mom Blog.
Things have been a bit crazy for us this past well, couple of years. What with my change of career and going back to school, and Woody’s joining of the Army. Finances have been tight, schedules have been hectic. Vacation’s been scarce (Waaaah! Enough about that). I used to have money to buy not just practical outfits from Target and Old Navy, which are cute but let’s face it, a bit uninspired, to more stylish baby clothes from Baby Gap, Ralph Lauren, Lucky Kid, and Baby Dior (kidding about Dior). See, Mina for the fist 1.5 year of her life had no shortage of cute outfits. We had clothes galore from my baby shower, from gifts for her first birthday given by relatives and friends. We had a huge birthday party for her 1st one so that comes as no surprise.
Behold, an absence of pink!
Her second was a bit more understated. We got mostly cash. Her cute outfits are dwindling. Most of the stuff in her closet are proudly marked Target and Old Navy. Both stores like a lot of pink and I vowed to NOT dress her all pink before I had her. I tell you, it’s hard!
I’ve been delegating her care to her Dad a lot more these days, since I’m so busy with school. Once he’s gone, care will go to my Mom most likely, who has no problems with pink. But I was inspired lately by Sweet Fine Day’s Jenna, who dresses her kids in stylish, low on pink fashion. I love it. I must admit I whipped out the credit card and just dropped a little over a hundred dollars on 5 pieces of clothes and shoes for the little one over at Crewcuts and yes, Baby Gap! This after already dropping some cash for more (pink!) stuff at Target the other day.
No, I didn’t buy her Stella McCartney’s new collection for babyGap (Lord, they are expensive!). I noticed most of the stuff I ended up buying were still in the pink family, but they call it guava, and light flamingo. I bought her pink shoes too. Ok, so that was a fail in no pink. But they were the only cute things on sale. Crewcuts isn’t in the vicinity of Old Navy pricing.
Anyway, what’s my point? My point is, I am overly concerned with how my daughter dresses. I secretly gloat that she is one of the best-dressed kid in her class. I love, love, love that she’s a girl. Cause no matter how many cutesy things they try to come up for boys, it’s just not as fun. For example, look at this cute picture:
I think that picture says it all. She insisted on adding the flower and tutu to the outfit by the way.
Mina, when you’re older and read this, I hope you appreciate how cutely I tried to dress you.
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I think that’s the reason why a lot of women prefer to have girls (me included). Who wouldn’t want their own barbie doll to dress and primp?
no matter how many cutesy things they try to come up for boys, it’s just not as fun.
so darn right. the funnest i could ever get to dressing my boy with are probably the graphics on a frikkin shirt, and even so, it’ll most likely be overkill.
love mina’s fashion sense! 
Yeah, I have fun dressing up my girl. And, for now, she (and her dad) tolerates it. I cringed spending $20 bucks on a shirt that used to be $50 but I paid $80 for shoes SHE.CAN’T.WEAR.(THAT).FOR.AWHILE?!?! (hubs reaction) “coz it’s cute and they will never, ever, have anything like it ever again. ever.” was my answer. If you see these shoes, man, you’ll swoon too and wish your mom bought it for you!
I, too, beam whenever I show up at daycare and every teacher tells me how cute my daughter’s outfit is. Happens quite often.
I know. I’m a sucker.
i actually don’t bust out her “cute” clothes at daycare. i feel it’s a waste cuz they get stained so easily. she wears a lot of hand-me-downs from her kuya (so a lot of NOT-pink clothing), her utilitarian “daycare” uniforms from Old Navy, Target, Carter’s, etc. Only when we go out do I bust out “nice” clothes. I just splurged on some boots from Gymboree (and even that was “only” $30 –which i think is a lot for boots from Gymboree). I feel bad that I splurged on Jacob more (e.g. $80 shoes from Geox, but know she wears them). BUt yes, it’s so much fun to dress a girl!
Oh my… Mina is getting so adorable. Boys must be running after her.
And what style ha… picking up the flower and the tutu.
What do you need a vacation for when everything you need is right there?