Letters to the Editor
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Spent the day school-clothes shopping with my kids
It's cute that the author has this "stylish tomboy" fantasy about how her girl will dress. My girl insists on pink for everything. She's five. Her brother, eight, has to have "realistic" animals emblazoned on his shirt--no dragons, for they are made up; no sports logos; no cars. Today, I just let the kids decide for themselves, putting my own feelings about what colors work best with their complexions, and, most of all, my own politics and fantasies about my own body. (Oh, yes I did buy my daughter that "lil Bratz" backpack she coveted.) You have to face it: they are their own people. And in the end, they're just kids. Who cares about their style? No one. It just doesn't matter.
As for sizing, both of my kids are slim and muscular (alas, taking after their father). Everything they buy has to be substantially taken in at the waist, which I find irritating since they're both well within the normal height/weight ratios for their ages. I'm personally not interested in any movement to make kids clothes even roomier.