Fashion trends

Having watched a bunch of Project Runway shows recently, Aaron and I are choosing to call Abraham fashion forward. Here's a recap of the past few months and what Abraham has been wearing. Each trend tends to last for at least a week. Sometimes the trend can be broken by clothing items becoming dirty and not cycled in and out of the washer quickly enough, sometimes something better catches his eye and on the rare occasion, parental feet are put down. These outfits or items are also often accompanied by various pieces of "gear"--knee and elbow pads, a cape, gladiator helment, an eye patch, pink wings, a sword and on the rare occasion all of these. Footwear is a different issue completely. And that's for a later post.

1.) tiger printed tiger shirt (sleeves cut off to be "up sleeves"). The day I purchased a second of these shirts, it was suddenly no longer a must-wear. It still gets pulled out and worn on occasion though.
2.) "up shorts"--all shorts must come above the knee. We have a pair of blue OP's, a thrift store handmedown from cousin Finn. They don't make "up shorts" for boys in 2008 so I had to locate our back up pair from the girls section at H&M.
3.) Soccer uniform--black mesh shorts, high socks, shirt with #9 on it.
4.) Black tiger muscle tee. This was often worn with a large cowboy hat for some reason.
5.) 5 shirts. Didn't matter which 5-the layers of shirts were what was important. This nonsense had to be stopped on day 2 as it was just too hot. Who knows why he wanted to wear so many shirts but the first day he showed up at school with all the shirts on, his teacher said he looked like he had grown over the weekend.
6.) Overalls. Abraham became interested in these upon spying some that were too small for him in his closet. After trying to cram himself into the too small overalls over and over again, my friend Amanda came to the rescue with some handmedowns from her tall children. She's such a kind soul that she also purchased him a pair that actually fit him well. Those were instantly dismissed though for not being "up enough" and he religiously wore the skimpy ones for weeks.
7.) Batman. Abraham spied this very low brow outfit at our neighbors. It came from Toys R Us--a store I have fortunately never set foot in except to purchase this outfit. This ensemble includes a shirt, shorts and a cape that velcros on. This is my least favorite of Abraham's looks as the costume is really polyester sleepwear and is , of course, treated with a toxic flame retardant. I sure hope this one is out of rotation soon.