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It’s hard to give a toss about clothes when you’ve just had a baby. In the first few days it’s hard to care about showering! But amazingly and quite quickly, your body mends, finds it’s way into the shower a good few times, then in front of the mirror, naked, asking you to clothe her with purpose once more.
But into what? What reflects who you are now? Surely just the old stuff will do? Aren’t you the same? did you learn that much in 6 months of having a baby? Ok let’s begin with some cultural ref points - how do mum’s dress? Easy, let’s go Catherine O Hara’s style in Home Alone, Diane Keaton in Father of the Bride and Sally Field in everything she ever did. Ick. Hang on you’re millennial you, not just a mum, you’re also kim kardash breaking the internet and Rhianna at the fashion show?
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But I’m not quite Kim or Rhirhi am I? one massive thing holds us apart…budget.
I need ot be better at buying. I buy like a mum. I want long term, timeless use again and again, have my daughter want-to-wear-it-one-day wardrobe.
My bfs mum at school was the coolest dresser I ever saw. Retro levis some chunky bangle or a broach. A white T. Cropped hair, bleached. It was the confidence, the not caring about the passing of time, just want dressing felt good, comfortable, but a nod to knowing what was current without having to be a slave to the moment.
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I feel we’re overloaded with icons of all kinds, and the louder the better it seems. I felt his way younger in my early 20’s in north london. Be loud, be different be special. i dress now like ive got less to prove because I do and I’ve had the wind beaten out of me enough to know i am am not special. . I don’t care (as much) what people think of me. I care about a few other things a long side what people of think of me, like if ill be cold, if ill be comfy, if pikcing up toddlers will ruin the out fit or the outfit the toddler.
I still enjoy the entertainment of fashion is enough, on my ig, on pinterest or googling what gucci has come up with for the following year. But Im a mum, I have a budget and a to do list that alswasy ahs to come first until perhaps the girls call, and there’s a rare occasion to be fucking outrageous and loud and special once more.
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