Wow, can you believe Boys Can Wear Pink is in its fourth year? This year it is Nova's debut into the series! I'm going to ramble about vinnie for a moment though, the pioneer in boy's fashion for me!
When I had vinnie, i had no problems putting him in black or pink or anything (even though many around me did). He's just owned it, really, and while he's a very soft and sensitive boy with low confidence (it really does break my heart) it there's one thing he is confident in it is wearing whatever he wants to wear - because i have always tried to encourage him that whatever he is comfortable in is fine. Of course this means not only does he wear whatever colours he wants to wear because, as we all know, colours have no genders - this also means that he wears his shirts inside out and back to front or no real reason than he can.
I do have to bite my tongue to tell him to "fix" his shirt, because who am i to tell him that he's "wrong" for wearing his shirt like that? I encourage him to embrace his fashion the way he wants, i'm not the one to set rules and limitations like that. However, i do remind him that other people might have something to say about it and so he is always prepared in case they do - and that makes him confident. He goes to school in holographic shoes (i feel we've only bought him shoes from the designated 'boys' section maybe three times in his entire life) and surprisingly enough all his boy friends have no issues (they know him, he's educated them) but it's the girls that have the problems with him wearing 'girl' shoes or 'girl' pants (this kid loves his leggings- because they're comfortable)- which in my personal opinion is just silly since they've known him for five years and it doesn't look like he's going to start conforming any time soon! deal with it, babies.
Because of this, because of vincent feeling confident in his own sense of style (which i can't say is distinctly from me and my confidence in fashion because in other aspects of out lives it's not like that) i just really thought it would be like that for all boys. Well apparently not! if you read the other blog posts in this tour both this season and past you'll see, or maybe you have your own little boy and you know how lucky i must be to have a boy that is this way, that is confident in wearing what he wants to wear (which is sort of funny because he will wear shorts to school on the coldest day because wearing pants makes him anxious - in case no one else is wearing pants) - expressing himself in the ways that he wants to express himself.
The thing is, we can't make our kids wear pink because it's pushing gender traditions and we want to make a statement about that. I know a lot of my family and friends think that is that what i do, mostly because i am so fierce and loud about feminism and equality for us all. it is a statement, seeing a boy in pink, but it is a statement from that little boy. And it really is just that he wants to wear that colour. As adults it's easy to look too much into things, but when i ask vinnie why he wears a tutu to the gym his innocent answer is because he knows it will make his friends laugh. that's it, plain and simple.
he wears pink because it's his favourite colour
ANYWAY that was a whole lot of words and this post is actually meant to be about nova and his amazing pink overalls! The funny thing is that while i'm a huge fan of pink on all boys because why not, i rapidly realised after having my second boy that maybe pink just doesn't suit all boys.
I don't know what it is, maybe it's because he's a bit ginger (it's hard to capture in photos because my photography skills are still so lacking, but he has ginger hair, eyebrows, eyelashes ahha - no clue where that came from!) but when i started putting him in the pink hand-me-downs of his brother and sister (and cousins) it just didn't look right. I still do it anyway, and he still gets called a pretty little baby girl with beautiful dimples because he's in a purple floral onesie...
and honestly, i don't care. the stranger thinks my baby girl is pretty, they probably also think i'm at least five years younger than i am and that he's my first baby. they're wrong, but that's ok ;)
I honestly made these overalls up thinking they would be too big for him, but would you believe his thighs are so ginormous and CHUNKY (and delicious) that i had a struggle getting his legs in?
Gosh those dimples, though. We're all excited he is developing wrists and ankles in his fat rolls. he'll be seven months old tomorrow!
I do need to add another set of buttons above the ones i have there, the straps are just too long but i had to half measure him while he was asleep so that's what happens!
Here's some of my looks from the past season! I do plan on doing a part two later this week with some stuff i've made Vin as a little sneaky peek of a bigger project but we'll see how it goes. It's increasingly hard getting in photoshoot time with the two older ones at school and you know, being a mum of three now! I just need to set up some sort of cool photoshoot corner at my house to save me from driving all the way into town - but those graffiti walls are SO amazing, those artists have done a fantastic job!
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Monday: Handmade Boy, EYMM, Wild & Wanderful, CKC Patterns, MBJM
Thursday: #roxthing, Beri Bee Designs, SewSophieLynn, CKC Patterns
