Who wore it best? Sweet baby A or Violet?
I think this is also a great time to clarify my stance on character clothing...as I'm sure you are clammoring for my definitive word. Before I had children, I was against character clothing on all levels. However, since I had children
How about you? What's your character clothing stance? And, how much has it changed since children were born?
One thing that will never change for me...adults in character clothes. No thank you...not even at Disneyland. And, yeah, Mariah Carey...that goes for you, too.
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ok, I'm a mom of 4 who said I would never let my kids be "addicted" to one of those silly characters-let alone wear them on their clothes. Another example of eating my words. Diego lives on everything in our house along with Cinderella and all of her friends.
I am a 100% no to adults in character clothing. When I was teaching we had a few teachers who were all about the Winnie the Poo clothing- which has caused me to 100% ban anything Winnie the Poo in my house- bad memories of very overweight women in big old Poo clothes- yuck.
As for the kids- we have pj's. William has a Speed Racer bathing suit (a gift) and a few tee-shirts from Day Out With Thomas- which I convinced him are better for bed!!! Other than that we are pretty much character free!!!
So funny - loved this post. I am totally against character clothing pretty much on any level and yes, since having kids, have caved on some small items - we do have one character bathing suit and due to one of those lovely tantrums, I did give in to a Power Rangers t-shirt that I have now convinced the boys are actually pajamas - so pajamas is really the main place I have caved. One area I will NEVER cave - shoes - I hate the character shoes!!
I love those Sesame Street rubber bands. I got them for Tess and she look so cute in Oscar and Cookie Monster.
We've actually gotten really lucky with our character clothing. I have kept it primarily to underwear - this is the best, totally hidden. Although I have to admit seeing Jake run around in his Diego underwear with "Hola little dinosaur" on his toosh makes me laugh everytime.
Wendy, your kids and mine woud be the *best* of friends. I've got a Princess girl and a Diego girl right now!
MM - When my sister was in ed school in college, she would say it was like a completely different school. While everyone else was wearing flannels and baggy jeans, her classmates wore Pooh, Disney and denim jumpers. Sometimes denim jumpers with Pooh on them!
5 Boys & Me - Shoes are the *worst*! My neighbor brought over a pair of bright white Princess sandals that light up. I live in fear that E will somehow find their super-secret hiding spot.
Deep in the Heart -- I count undies as PJs. E actually prefers some of her non-character undies, which is weird. That said, we will *never* do Dora pull-ups. I mean, A will never potty train if there was no incentive for Dora panties!
I'm stanceless.
Oh, and you & jengar can go out with ME and MY BFF Sandy Bullock any time!
MizFit
I agree with marathon mom....so many character clothing on adults in the elementary schools -YUCK!! I've seen my fair share of pooh and mickey sweatshirts...I could so be friends with Jen also, her and Reese.
If I had a nickel for every time I let my kids do something I said I never would...
Characters, only on underwear. What aggravates me is that it is difficult to find stuff that isn't branded with a character. Ugh.
Another thing. How the hell do my kids even know who Elmo is? We don't watch it. They don't go to school. But the first time they saw him...."Elmo!!" WTH?
Thanks for the comment on my blog. So you think making him wear undies during nap time will work, huh? I'm scared. :)
Yeah, I agree with you, although we made the exception for 2 Mickey shirts while we were at Disney. It's funny, I was shopping with MIL last week since she never gets to buy us anything she was picking out girl clothes. I felt bad but I had to veto 2 things (one being a perfectly cute dress except that it had ELMO across it) because there was no way Savannah was going to be wearing it. Oh-and of course my SIL gives me hand-me downs. Which is fine, except that 60% of them have character crap, I mean designs on them!
You clearly hit on something here, SM!
Characters...hmm, never, ever, ever on adults.
For G, never worn a character except on his diapers.
For R, he has character undies, sunglasses, one "Cars" bathing suit and "Cars" socks that I allow him to wear to bed. I really have been lucky though, he isn't character-obsessed as much as he is vehicle obsessed.
Yours wore it best!!!!:) I am with you all the way on your stance concerning character clothing, although I have allowed a *few* princess t-shirts because of the Target tantrum thing you mentioned.
Love this post...I am anti-character clothes (and clothes with meaningless words like "1979 Varsity" WTH?). We do have character sheets and underwear and band-aids and lunch boxes.
About the adults in character clothes...I may be tacky. I love Hello Kitty and have a patent leather diaper bag with a little HK on it, and a sequined purse, and...a bunch of stuff.
OMG. I can't even tell you how many times I have told people that Jennifer Garner would SURELY want to be my BFF if only she and I could meet.
Heh. We should call Jen and schedule a play date.
I lost the battle with the Disney Princesses loooong ago. It's not stuff I buy really. (Pajamas and underwear are fine with me.) But her grandmother's load her up. She has the white Princess sandals that light up. Will doesn't have any of it yet. I really hate the boy stuff. But it's kind of out of my hands if I want the grandparents to keep the swag flowing.
Adults should never wear that stuff however.
Ok. Wait. There is this new store in Downtown Disney that has really funky character stuff. Like a grunged up babydoll T with a little girl version of the Wicked Queen from Snow White. And then some sassy one liner. I thought that was cool. I'll admit that.
And I might have owned an Elmo t-shirt in the mid 1990's. But that was about IRONY people.
I have some Victoria's secret underpants with cupcakes on them too. I'm so ashamed...
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