More and more lately I’ve been letting NikkiZ dress herself. Partly because I’m lazy and I can spend more time on my ass if she’s dressing herself, and partly because her outfits are always so amazing I feel like she is giving a gift to the world when she walks out the door. She doesn’t like pants at all, so she usually picks out a dress and some sort of crazy legging/tight addition to make it more winter friendly. She’s gotten a little taller since she last wore that polka-dot dress above, so I asked her to choose a skirt to go with it. I love that she picked the skirt furthest apart from polka-dots in her closet. And no matching colors whatsoever. And then…what you can’t see? The pink heart belt she put over the top of it all. That matched the red headband perfectly. When we went to Best Buy the cashiers all praised her gorgeous outfit. And they also somehow believed that me letting her dress herself was something I deserved a compliment for. “That’s wonderful you let her do that.” Why wouldn’t I? It allows me to be lazy AND it gives me great photographic material. WIN! WIN!
Here is another outfit that she put on yesterday. I swear, I’m going to start photographing every outfit she wears because they are all SO AWESOME.
I pointed out she needed a long-sleeve shirt under that dress and she said, “I want the one with the circles on it that Aunt Katie gave me.” (Circles = Peace Signs) She didn’t just find this one and grab it, it’s the one she wanted. Because it compliments the flowers in the sundress JUST SO. Throw in black leggings and black sparkle shoes and Ta Da! Look out Tim Gunn…you’re looking at Project Runway winner for Season 24! YOU JUST WATCH.
I expect this photographic journey to continue because I want to be able to show her all of these when she gets mad at me for crushing her fashion freedom when she’s 17. I can show her these pictures and say, “You used up all of your fashion freedom by age 6. Sorry. Now change your clothes, you look like a streetwalker.”
I love it! She really has a great sense of style already and 2010 is the year of breaking all the fashion rules (according to some expert on GMA) so NikkiZ is a trailblazer! Some dday we may all be wearing her designs!
Seriously, this is all fashion brilliance. I’m not joking, either. She’s got a vision, that girl. Keep letting her express herself and keep posting pictures. I’m getting ideas!
Yeah, stinking cute!
Fabulous!! Never in my life have I had 1/10th this much fashion sense. Sigh. It’s too late to hope I’ll develop it at this stage.
Check this out…Nikkiz totally has a design future ahead of her!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/LoveToLoveYou
She is ahead of her time!
I LOVE the second outfit and kind of wish I could find all those pieces in my size.
I am a one of those risk-averse dressers, to my own shame, so I say let her go. She’s working it out and by adulthood she’ll be the envy of everyone.
Have you considered putting her into the Wardrobe Remix Flickr pool? I bet they would dig it.
She has awesome style! Very Betsey-Johnson-meets-Free-People-For-Kids! Happy New Year to your family!
Wow, she’s a baby hipster and she’s not even trying to be ironic.
As long as it’s basically clean and seasonally approp, anything goes in our house. Big sis (a few weeks younger than NikkiZ) spent several weeks wearing her Halloween costume–Tigger complete with tale. now she’s moved on to choosing from the dress up clothes–Vampire hooker with Easter hat, anyone?
I think I might be too much of a control freak to let my daughter do this… I might try this week and see what she comes up with. I’ll just practice my deep breathing.
I love her style! It’s couture!