Is there an item of clothing your child just won't part with??

[tuscany123]

Hi! I thought it might be fun to share stories of what I call clothing-attachment! My DD is 3, and she wants to wear the same dress each and every day! It's a very pretty white dress with pink flowers, with a wide skirt so she can spin in a circle and see it flare out.: It's a summer-weight dress, so I have to put a turtleneck under it, or a sweater over it for our N. AZ winter weather. Her half-sister, who is 30, told me she was the same way when she was my DDs age. In fact, her Mother had to burn the dress after it was tattered and filthy, and the too-small arm holes were cutting off her circulation!!

I know this is a beautiful example of DD asserting herself, and I am really enjoying this. I can't believe she let me put her dress in the hamper today, after the 4th wearing, and having played at her Grandma's farm all day today!! We'll see what tomorrow brings, I'm not pulling it out of the hamper for church!

Looking forward to hearing from other mothers experiencing, or having experienced, the same thing.

[mom22girls]

Ah yes, we had one that sounds similar in style. It was from Lands End - and really, it was a great dress. T-shirt type cotton, high waist, long sleeves, very "twirly" skirt. Stood up to 100+ washings. In constant use. Laundered in the dead of night DD1 did finally find others (I bought some more in different colors) and branched beyond her lilac dress. However, there's no way dd2 will be wearing it, It's too much a part of my dd1. I can't even imagine her wearing it. As weird as this seems, I'm putting it away for dd1 for if she has a daughter....

She grew out of the wearing only one thing phase, into the "I'm going to wear my princess costume to the supermarket phase." Now she rushes home from pre-school and makes a bee line for her costumes. It has to be what a closet transvestite feels like when he gets home from work, and slips on his frilly pink peignoir!! I enjoyed it at first, but those princess costumes aren't washable - and hers are all dingy.

But I count myself lucky - I once passed a little girl wearing a Buzz Lightyear costume (in pretty hefty vinyl) on a Texas spring day (80). I smiled at the mom in passing, and she looked at me and said, "four days, even to bed."

I think you and I got off easy!!

-H

[PeacefulSeams]

My son is obsessed with his darth vader snow boots. He has to wear them everywhere. He even likes to wear them with his pajamas. But he is slowly moving on from his boots to some blues clues jammies.

[1xmom]

My dd has a pink crushed velvet nightgown that she absolutely loves. She is now a size 7-8 and the nightgown is a 4T. My mother had bought it for her and one day she was over so I told my dd to let Nana know that she needs a new nightgown. DD just looked at me all bewildered and said "For what?". I'm like, "Because the one you have on is way too small.":

[OakBerry]

My ds has a pair of yellow rubber rainboots that he wore all last year. I have pictures of him in the kiddie pool (in 90 degree heat) with them on.

[mamalex]

My DH has an issue with being attached to clothing...he will wear the same thing almost every single day...for years. I'm not kidding. It's his only neuroses at this point (that I know of,) and I kinda have to ignore it. I can't tell you how many times I've put his blue capilene shirt in the trash- the arms from the elbows down are gone, and there are holes and runs through the whole thing. He doesn't even wash it often because he's afraid of it disintegrating. I wonder if ds will be the same way- he's fairly sensitive too. He has days where he will wear his little bike helmet ALL DAY LONG.

[jrcronewillis]

My son's attachment to a piece of clothing is less about wearing it everyday and more about just never letting it go.
Today, Dec. 13, he is proudly wearing his beloved tie-died, spider and bat, 2T, Halloween shirt. He's had it for three years now (he's four and got it right after he turned one) and somehow it still fits him fine. I don't understand it. Every time he gets it out of the drawer I think "this will be the time it finally doesn't fit." And yet year after year it still does. The sleeves are way too short, but everything else is fine. Maybe it's magic.

So I'm off to pick up my husband from work and go Christmas shopping with my happy Halloween little guy in tow.


Juliette

[koru]

my dd has her "spinner dress." it's a crazy, blue & white with sequins dress-up thing with toole under the skirt that i bought at goodwill. (she calls it her "spinner" because it floats up & down when she spins). she plays in it everyday and i occasionally take her out wearing it if it's a battle i choose not to deal with at the moment.

funny story....right after we moved to our new suburban abode (and i was feeling a bit out of place) i took the girls downtown to check out the sights. dd insisted on wearing her spinner dress so out we went. we strolled into a classy downtown store and i immediately felt like laughing out loud. right inside the door was a woman, her mother & a perfectly coiffed & boutique-dressed little girl. my little rugrats definitely didn't fit in but i loved it!

[saritasmile]

My ds isn't specific about a certain item, color is his thing. Red to be exact. Red *everything* or he doesn't really like it.

[mightymoo]

Although its not an outfit she wears out of the house, DD loves her ballerina costume from American Girl (matches her Bitty Baby). She wakes up, puts it on, I have to peel her out of it for school and when she gets through the door she takes everything off and puts it back on. It's stood up very well considering! She really does a number on the tights though, even the expensive dance store tights have bit the dust after such constant wear.