So a lovely journalist from SHOP Til You Drop Kids – my FAVOURITE magazine in the world – calls me up.
SHOP: We're looking for a baby boy for an 'Inside My Wardrobe' story. Could we do Remy?
ME: Um, it would be a very short story. It would go: Baby Remy doesn't have a wardrobe. He has two baskets shoved under his change table. Inside them is some stuff we got as gifts and some pink hand-me-downs from his sister. The End.
ME: Um, it would be a very short story. It would go: Baby Remy doesn't have a wardrobe. He has two baskets shoved under his change table. Inside them is some stuff we got as gifts and some pink hand-me-downs from his sister. The End.
SHOP: Oh, well, maybe not then.
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I quite like the Shop Kids magazine. In terms of ridiculously expensive outfits it is not that much different to many women's fashion magazines really.
The thing I have found with more expensive children's clothing is that it wears and washes better and that stains tend to come out of things from Big/Seed/Country Road that won't budge out of the average Cotton On/Target/KMart gear. I therefore am prepared to spend a bit more on many items of my kids clothing, especially as it is getting passed from oldest to youngest (2 girls aged 5 & 3).
I actually think it would be interesting for that magazine to run a feature on what happens with second, third and beyond children's wardrobes and the gifts that you get (or fail to get!) from the same people who showered the first born.
My daughter is 15 months and has over 30 pairs of shoes. Pampered?
Maybe but really the truth of it is I'm so repulsed by my post baby body that I have absolutely NO interest in my clothes anymore.
Hers are so much cuter! I love buying/making gorgeous things for her to wear.
As for "Jo"s comment about the sexualisation of children. I have to disagree. My little girl wears beautiful clothes that are appropriate for her age.
No slogans on the front, no mini-me outfits. Just lovely little things for little girls. She dresses her age, she does does it with style!
Yep it's a style chosen for her by me but if she was head to toe in some fugly ensemble from Best n Less that would have been chosen by an adult anyway so I don't see the difference.
Mia I can recommend Pediped & Tip Toey Joey for little baby shoes. They are beautifully made and they last so well.