Kiddie Couture
I'm always bemused when I see young children in designer clothes. Last week, Hendrick and I were in a class with a little boy with Ralph Lauren jeans. I wondered how much his parents spent on those pants, which he will surely outgrow before they go out of style.
I've been wanting to write about this subject since then but wasn't sure how to approach it without seeming petty. Serendipitously, I found a newspaper article that talks about upscale children's boutiques in Nashville and interviews some of the women who were shopping there.
I don't want to sound too judgmental but this is really too much. It's not just the wealthy who spend lavishly on kiddie couture anymore. It's often those with just enough extra income who want to feel they are part of the upper class.
We all want our children to have nice clothes but let's not go overboard. As for me, I'm grateful for all the hand-me-downs friends have given us and I'll stash our extra cash into Hendrick's college fund.
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070318/FEATURES08/703190302/1087/FEATURES
I've been wanting to write about this subject since then but wasn't sure how to approach it without seeming petty. Serendipitously, I found a newspaper article that talks about upscale children's boutiques in Nashville and interviews some of the women who were shopping there.
I don't want to sound too judgmental but this is really too much. It's not just the wealthy who spend lavishly on kiddie couture anymore. It's often those with just enough extra income who want to feel they are part of the upper class.
We all want our children to have nice clothes but let's not go overboard. As for me, I'm grateful for all the hand-me-downs friends have given us and I'll stash our extra cash into Hendrick's college fund.
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070318/FEATURES08/703190302/1087/FEATURES
2 Comments:
I agree with you completely (our extra pennies are going toward more important things for our kids). That said...my kids have two overly indulgent grandmothers, so that Lauren-clad toddler you saw last week might easily have been mine.
Although...my daughter was walking around the other day in a JLo skirt (appropriately modest) that a neighbor gave to me because her daughter outgrew it...obviously I didn't pay a dime for it, and maybe this boy's mother didn't pay for her son's expensive clothes, either.
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