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Re: [apmultiples] another rant from Valerie

I am amazed at just how pink and frilly and girly they make clothes... I'm
partial to Hanna Andersson dresses when Lily does wear dresses. They are
practical and comfy and still very cute. I like the play/day dresses.

I"m not a pink person and my friends/family know it- so Lily has almost
nothing in pink. I do have a good friend though who's daughter wears TONS of
lacey pink things.....

To each their own I guess :)

-Amy
Mom to Ben, Lily and Sam 17months
----- Original Message -----
From: "LaRee Brown" <mommytotwins2003 yahoo com>
To: <apmultiples yahoogroups com>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 12:53 PM
Subject: RE: [apmultiples] another rant from Valerie


> Now see, I have a harder time w/ the "boy section" & "girl section" when
> I look for stuff online. When I shop in stores I'm looking at the
> extreme clearance racks & by then stuff's pretty lumped together :-)
> I'll also admit that we did tons of returning baby gifts that were
> clothes we knew we'd never use (some because I didn't like it, some
> because we just got way more than they ever would've worn in those small
> sizes), I still have store credit at some stores LOL. By not announcing
> that we were having girls until they were born, we managed to limit the
> dresses to a number that was reasonable for using for church. That's the
> only time *I* wear dresses, so the only time the girls will until
> they're old enough to decide for themselves what they want to wear :-)
>
> Even for their professional pictures I tend to prefer more casual
> outfits.
>
> I was at a baby shower this past week & the mom commented that when she
> opens the babies'  (she's having g/g twins) closet *everything* is pink!
> She was just kind of laughing about it & I don't know if it's all gifts
> or the stuff she's bought as well (I didn't buy anything in the tiny
> sizes because I knew we'd get so many gifts in those sizes) but I have
> to admit that when I heard that I said to myself "whew, I'm SO glad we
> didn't have that!"
>
> LaRee & the twins
> http://pages.ivillage.com/lareebrown/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Toby [mailto:nancytoby comcast net]
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 9:06 AM
> To: apmultiples yahoogroups com
> Subject: RE: [apmultiples] another rant from Valerie
>
> I guess the kids will always be affected to some degree by what
> "outside"
> people do.
>
>
>
> I've never bought dresses for my girls - seemed like nothing but a
> nuisance
> to me! But that's what people seem to want to gift to them. I guess it's
> good to have a few for the portrait studio, because I don't think
> they'll
> get much wear out of them otherwise! It never seemed very practical to
> me to
> have clothes that they had to change out of for play - play is their
> full-time job now! Another gift they got was a huge collection of hair
> bows
> and hair clips. I guess I can save them for "dress-up" play some day - I
> don't see us ever bothering with them for daily wear! Both my girls have
> a
> lot of hair and definitely look like girls, they've never been mistaken
> for
> boys. (As an aside, I've heard that is one of the things that bothers
> parents in the NICU most - when someone speaks of their child in the
> wrong
> gender. I guess that would seem like a lack of familiarity and concern
> with
> the child, but otherwise seems like one of the least important things to
> me
> at that stage.)
>
>
>
> I also tend to buy them clothes in bright colors rather than pastels,
> because they don't "show the dirt" as much, and for some unknown reason
> these seem to have more traditionally masculine themes - like the pink
> version of one outfit has a butterfly on it, and the navy blue version
> has a
> truck and a (male-appearing) farmer.
>
>
>
> The first more expensive clothing I bought for each of them (on sale at
> Land's End) was a pair of overalls each. Along with their first
> sweatshirts,
> which have on the front "A for Aviation" and an airplane. Their father
> is a
> private pilot and always talks about flying copilot in the right seat
> with
> them one day. :-)
>
>
>
> I have a feeling we'll be doing most of our clothes-shopping online
> (like
> Mommy does) rather than in the "boys section" or "girls section" of the
> store anyway.
>
>
>
> ~~~~~~~
>
> Nancy Toby, Arlington, Virginia * nancytoby comcast net
>
> Mom to Catherine and Elisabeth (6/1/03) and Anna (5/9/03-11/21/03)
>
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