This is how Keira sometimes dressed back towards at the beginning of the year, by laying out the clothes (usually pink) the day before. Please note the makeup was taken secretly from my bathroom. I don’t normally let her wear it; only on special occasions. Like the nights we watch Rocky Horror Picture Show, and boy, you should see Riley dressed up as Rocky. No one has worn gold hot pants that well since Kylie.
Anyway…moving on…
This is how Keira’s fashion preferences have changed. Pink still features but now she more interested in layering different patterns and textures over each other. More! is Better! One cannot wear stripes without spots, or florals without tartans!
My mother is quite well known for being quite the fashionista back in to 1970s, back when she was in her 20s. Being the eldest of all her siblings, she would make all her younger sisters jealous with some of her outfits, those she bought either here or overseas and as she is a borderline hoarder still has in her cupboard today some vintage items that would sell for a bundle on eBay. For example, there is a lovely black wool mini dress that I fit into but don’t dare wear because I don’t want the world to be my gynecologist*. You want a purple and silver disco sparkle dress with a slit that comes up to the thigh? There’s one of those, too.
I sometimes wonder how Keira’s taste in clothes will change as the years do, and as she gets older how her demands will get more articulated, more informed as to what she wants to wear and why. She has already decided that she will never, absolutely, ever wear tracksuit pants under her school uniform next year because that “does not so good as black tights do”.
Yowsers.
I just hope she doesn’t put fringed cowboy boots on her Christmas list from ages 8 – 12, like, uh, someone else did.
I never got them.
Another example of mum’s superior sense of style and selectivity 😉
*Thanking Jennifer Saunders for that joke.
