Six year old lives in Princess dress.

bestpud

My dd used to go everywhere in either a 'Mr incredible' or a 'Pink Power Ranger' outfit at that age!

I just smiled and said, 'yes, I'm so glad she hasn't realise how judgemental people can be yet' when anyone commented.

In the end, it as peer pressure that put her off.

Enjoy it while it lasts, I say!

Lirin

I'm not exactly a conformist myself- my favourite jackets are a biker jacket from 1982, and a velvet jacket my mum bought my dad in the 60's.

'Well, it's good to see my daughter's mature enough to develop her own individuality....'

Owain_Moneysaver

Molly41 wrote: »

Well at least she is a girl dressed in girls clothes. My youngest son insisted on dressing up in his sister's nurse's uniform at the same age and practically lived in it for the whole of the summer holiday. It was fine but finally my father passed comment and was told to shut up. DS3 does cringe at the photos now though and is a very macho 15 year old x

You've got unlimited blackmail potential there.

jamespir

robpw2 wrote: »

crikey anyone would thik it was wrong for a 6 year old girl to wear a dress.. now if it was a 6 year old boy i could understand but even then i would say stuff what anyone elsee thinks

yes there was aprogram on bbc 3 the other night about a boy who wanted to wear adress to his school prom the school didnt like the idea as they thought parents would find it "disgusting" and he was told not to wear it but he did and when he turned up they did not want to let him in untill parents and pupils decided they were not gonna go ahead with the prom unless he was alowwed in so its not wrong for either sex

Gazing_On_Sunsets

Those replies do make me smile.

I do historical re-enactment and a lot of the members have kids, who love the spend the weekend dressed up and running around a field in packs. No one forces their kid into it, but which kid WOULDN'T want to dress up like a mini musketeer? But at one event recently, a woman with her kid strapped, wriggling, into a pushchair, remarked we should be reported to social services for letting the kids be all dressed up like that...

dizsiebubba

One of my Brownies has a little sister who is always dressed up as a princess when she comes with mum to drop her off... im so jealous... i tell her older sister that i wish i could dress like that every day but the meanies at work wont let me!

jamespir

Gazing_On_Sunsets wrote: »

Those replies do make me smile.

I do historical re-enactment and a lot of the members have kids, who love the spend the weekend dressed up and running around a field in packs. No one forces their kid into it, but which kid WOULDN'T want to dress up like a mini musketeer? But at one event recently, a woman with her kid strapped, wriggling, into a pushchair, remarked we should be reported to social services for letting the kids be all dressed up like that...

what a sour puss

pinkduvetdiva

What business is it of the other mums what your DD wears? Surely individuality and creativity at such a young age should be encouraged and applauded?

mrs_marty

How lovely a six year is playing away using her imagination and encouraged to do so! :j

My daughter loved the princess stage, I loved watching her great fun was had by all, she is now 8 this year and sadly that has now gone, she still plays away with her imagination, but the pink fairy dress up has gone, so enjoy it, it is sadly to short lived.

My son, 5 rotates between Spider Man, Woody, power range, and Ben 10.

I really hope our very little girl (almost 10 months) embraces her inner fairy princess when the time comes

I think it is very sad that the other mum's think there is a time limit on this phase if in fact they ever encouraged it? Life isn't actually about conforming to what someone deems to be that accepted norm!

lostinrates

As a kid in hot climes I went between wearing my dressing up clothes (nothing so decent as a proper pincess dress, just my mothers cast offs, so evening dresses that were about two feet too long, and nighties. Lots of fancy nighties) and red bikini bottoms. I went a lot of places just in my red bikini bottoms.


As an adult, I am still eccentric in my clothes...I wear what I like and I probably still look as much as a mess as I did in my mother's cast offs. Who cares? Not me, not DH. I don't mind being the batty woman who wanders around in a long dress and a tatty cardi deadheading my roses. A couple of years ago I found in a drawes some gold footless tights and wore them with enthusiam. Now, I'm not so foolish as to think they looked great, but they FELT great, I liked them.

I knpow how to dress when I need to dress right, children learn that through school uniform etc. But why should we all get about in identikit clothes from high street shops.

If her manners are good, shes safe and happy, let her dress however she wants when its appropriate for her to do so. When she's 6 its almost ALWAYS appropriate.

How lovely to read so many people who support this little girls enthusiasm and imagination.