Kids and Style

Summer is in full effect, kids are outside playing in the hose, the air conditioner is running full blast, and the freezer is stocked up with ice cream. Summer is also the time of year that I start school shopping for my two kids. When my kids were toddlers buying clothes for them was not a big deal. Now that they are school aged they seem to have way too many opinions about what I should buy and what they want to wear. My son Riley is starting kindergarten this year and I kid you not, he has already told me that he wants a bunch of “cool shirts” when he starts up. Sounds easy enough, but what Riley considers cool is not so easy to come by. Granted he is still only 5 years old, this kid has some very specific ideas of style. I see influences from myself and his father in what he considers to be his style. Riley seems to be gearing towards a sort of casual punk rock type of look lately. I bought him a pair of skinny Levi’s a few weeks ago and now he tells me that he only wants skinny jeans from now on. So, skinny jeans it is. I just can’t bring myself to cramp this kids style! He also has taken a liking to smaller fitting t-shirts. Why a boy would like smaller shirts is beyond me, but he insists. I was shopping at JC Penney last week and ran across a great clearance sale on boys shirts. Luckily Riley was with me and helped me choose which ones were the “coolest”. He seems to be a strictly jeans and t-shirt type of kid. From time to time he will wear cargo shorts and wife beater type shirts. What really gets me is that he has become a sneaker king in a matter of months. When I started to talk about buying shoes for back to school he told me that he just HAD to have a pair of Vans shoes. And he was even a little more specific than that because he demanded that the Vans be checkered. I was able to find a pair at a decent price!

        I also have a 3 year old daughter and she is super fun to shop with. Her style is very simple and straightforward. On most days she just wears a simple dress with sandals. She also looks very good in long tops paired with leggings. I think that look is very suiting for her and it allows me to do a little more mixing and matching than with other outfits.

        Both kids are young, but they do have their own little sense of style and I like that! I think it says a lot about how they feel about themselves and their own sense of self. Not many children this age would even care about what they wear, but my two are always down to look fresh!

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