"You can live out your fashion fantasies through your kids."
SAMANTHA MEILER,
a Life & Style editor, one of the growing number of parents who are dressing their children in the same fashions worn by celebrity kids like Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Violet Affleck and Kingston Rossdale
Cool? Or another instance of consumerism as pathology?
Kimberly said...
I don’t know. I definitely consider personal style, a personal art form.My daughter is a little fashionista in her own right. What I love about her style is that it is truly her own. At the age of 11, what her peers are wearing or what she sees on t.v doesn’t faze her. She may leave the house with two wop-sided afro puffs and a pair of chucks, one green, the other pink. She accessorizes with jewelry that she makes herself.
I can get with that. Whether we purchased something off the discount rack or a specialty boutique, she can make it all look good.
Guess she gets it from her momma.
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I'll go with absolutely stupid.
Kids need to be running jumping and playing. In the dirt.
How in the hell they supposed to do that in mini stilettos.
LOL. I feel you Robyn.
The objectification of kids continue.
But I aint gonna lie. My daughter got me buying her some grown looking outfits lately. No heels, but skirts and scarves and little bags and sandals.
A fool and his money...
Fashion is among the most insidious, trifling, and wasteful instantiations of status-seeking, herd conformity, and dopaminergic servitude....,
Solution: a uniform with all seasons cut and weight variations slightly exceeding normative standards of decorum, i.e., a slight cut above the baseline dress code.
Sometimes called the *engineer's suit* - exceptions to the uniform should only be the rare formal occasion.
Once the girl child is lost to the misogynistic dictates of fashion and slavish fashionistas, it may take that child years to recover if she in fact truly ever recovers...,
"Once the girl child is lost to the misogynistic dictates of fashion and slavish fashionistas, it may take that child years to recover if she in fact truly ever recovers...," CNu
Nah.
Not if you knows how to rock it.
Not sure what your comment means DV, but once the parents teach their daughter that her beauty depends on what she wears, she's going to be emotionally stunted for life.
I'm going to teach my daughter that she's so fly, she could wear a potato sack and make it look good.
Because clothes don't make you. You make the clothes. Take me for example. I'm hot and I have a great body (post-pregnancy too). Doesn't matter if I buy $200 Kitson jeans that Paris Hilton wears or $10 no-brand jeans, I still look good. Because I make the jeans look good. Shoot, the designers should be paying me to wear them.
My daughter better be equally arrogant. LOL!!
More than anything else, I'm concerned about the legion of little insidious voices whispering in the child's ear that her self-worth is in any manner, form, or *fashion* associated with the clothes on her back.
The whispers come from print, broadcast, social, retail, and myriad other sources - all conveying the same distorted and ridiculous message.
Once those voices are in there, it's damn near impossible to get them back out again. Better to simply never go there....,
"I'm concerned about the legion of little insidious voices whispering in the child's ear that her self-worth is in any manner, form, or *fashion* associated with the clothes on her back." CNu
Uhhh.. ahhh .. um
That's one way to look at it.
But it damn sure aint the only way.
Here's another way. Clothes can can certainly be mindless gestures material status.
They can also be art.
Just as I wouldn't snatch a young prodigy away from a piano, I wouldn't snatch a French scarf from a little girl using it as a sarong.
One can hold brand consciousness in contempt, while appreciating the way a $3,500 Hermes suit hangs.
In fact, America would be a much better place if people dressed better.
I'm sick of seeing grown ass men in sweat suits and flip flops. Sneakers and baseball caps.
Casual Friday every damn day of the week. It's getting disgusting.
Going to a restaurant? Over 25? Put on a jacket.
Here's another way. Clothes can can certainly be mindless gestures material status.
case in point....,
One can hold brand consciousness in contempt, while appreciating the way a $3,500 Hermes suit hangs.
Overcoming the status drive is hard Work. Once Melek Taus settles into your heart, more than likely you will have become his property for life.
I don’t know. I definitely consider personal style, a personal art form.
My daughter is a little fashionista in her own right. What I love about her style is that it is truly her own. At the age of 11, what her peers are wearing or what she sees on t.v doesn’t faze her. She may leave the house with two wop-sided afro puffs and a pair of chucks, one green, the other pink. She accessorizes with jewelry that she makes herself.
I can get with that. Whether we purchased something off the discount rack or a specialty boutique, she can make it all look good.
Guess she gets it from her momma.
Sho's you right Kimberly.
Personal style IS an art form. Sadly, it's one we tend to supress in children until such time as the pernicious fashion meme gets well established in their heads and distorts their values and aesthetics for life....,
My wife has a 9 year old niece who recently had a birthday. Her birthday list was something like this.
Money
Some kind of dolls.
Matching Bra and panties
Matching bra and panties?!?!?! WHAT! We were both dumbfounded, and originally thought that her mother must be exposing her to too much too early. Until we walked into Target. And right there plain as day. Matching bra and panties for little girls. I was like holy shit. What is this world coming to.
This is a good topic for me. I'm expecting my 1st daughter in 2 months and the wife and I have certainly discussed this. We side with the Insurgent. We will dress our little girl like a little girl. We will probably not be buying the latest name brand clothes. We will teach her that her physical beauty comes far second to her inner beauty. We will occupy her with sports, or arts but not fashion.
If she turned out to be like Kimberly's daughter, I could accept that. If she turned out wanting to be a little paris hilton, that ass would be grass.
Problem solved magne...,
Women from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, who were called upon to make clothes en masse for the children taken into state custody, have now turned their skills to commerce and launched an online shop.
The austere dresses with long-sleeves and high collars, loose-fitting pants, long-johns and modest blouses worn by members of the sect are reminiscent of 19th century American pioneers and highlighted the sect's isolation.
But with the children returned to their legal guardians following a court ruling in May, the sect's members are turning their hand to providing their distinctive clothes to the general public -- and the demand appears strong.
"We don't know what to expect on demand but we have a flood of interest," Maggie Jessop, a member of the sect, told the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper.
At the website, www.fldsdress.com, the women propose clothing for children and teenagers that "meets the FLDS standards for modesty and neatness" and assert that "each piece is made with joy and care."
What you make of that CNu?
Almost too many layers on that onion to peel magne, but if pressed to guess, I suspect that there's quite a lot of local interest coverage in the Texas press.
Some of that material likely focused less on the lurid aspects and more on their lifestyle. Some of that lifestyle coverage probably detailed the sister/wife social fabric and its methods of production.
Like many *traditional* methods of production, I suspect theirs was turned into a game and moving meditation. It's work, but people have always had a way of turning work into something transcendent. To the extent it was described as such, I'm sure that that resonated with people accustomed to non-productive drudgery signifying nothing so much as paper shuffled from point A. to point B..
Even the little yahoo article I excerpted touched on that aspect.
Imagine how much deeper it would be if their labor of love was made from hand-woven hemp, and the sister/wife community was running those looms and constructing those traditional garments.
People are starved for that level of meaning - even if only gleaned vicariously....,
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