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Keep turning, you'll get around the block ([personal profile] left_turns) wrote in [community profile] agonyaunt 2016-09-20 06:00 pm (UTC)

Wellll, I think there's a line.

If you're taking your kids to a wedding or a funeral or something, or the kind of fancy dinner out where you end up spending twenty/thirty-plus dollars per adult before tax and tip, then I could see it being a beginning lesson in "there are places where it isn't appropriate to wear whatever you damn well please, and people will be upset if you do." Even things like the backwards shirt at the grocery, or say, their underpants outside of their skirt/shorts/pants or something covered in jelly, well, there I don't think it would be completely wrong to say to a six-year-old, "sorry honey, if you want to wear that when you come with me, you have to put it together right"/"you have to wear something cleaner." Strangely enough, if some kid wants to dress like a princess while they're running errands, the idea of that bugs me less than wearing normal clothes in ways that seem slobby--inside out or backwards or whatever.

But if they're just going to McDonalds and Target and things, I honestly don't even understand the issue with small children wearing costumes or clashing colors or whatever qualifies as "disrespectful" here. They're little kids. They're weird. That's what they do.

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