Typically I leave the product reviews to Steph at Close To Home
but, since we’re so close to Christmas, I feel it is my responsibility
as a parent of a girly-girl to tell other parents of girly-girls about
what I like to call the Best Girly-Girl Dress Ever.
One day last Christmas, said dress arrived in the mail for Isabella,
from a friend of mine whose niece makes these from scratch. Can clothes
be made from scratch or does that expression only apply to food?
Whatever the case, the dress is handmade and I’m pretty sure the woman
who made it is from Heaven.
My co-worker Lauri Dykhuis photographed Isabella wearing the Best
Girly-Girl Dress Ever. Starting out, it just looks like a cute little
dress, with the big heart on the chest (aww…) and the pretty floral
skirt that Isabella is admiring, with her feet daintily crossed as only
a girly-girl would do…
But then, she starts to twirl…
Look at that skirt fly. And actually it goes much higher than that,
sometimes right up next to the girly-girl’s face, but I don’t have any
photos of that happening. And I’m glad I don’t because I wouldn’t want
to publish a photo of Isabella’s
skirt-so-high-that-you-can-see-her-underwear on the World Wide Web. So
you’ll just have to take my word for it.
Men, if you’re reading this, for this next paragraph you can twiddle
your thumbs or pick your nose or whatever it is you do when women are
talking about things you think are horribly boring and/or a waste of
time. But women, please raise your hand if you’ve ever in your life
wanted a dress with a skirt that twirls. It’s okay, put your hand up, I
won’t judge you.
Okay men, you can join us again.
So the beauty of this dress is, well there are many beauties: 1)
It’s reversible, so your girly-girl won’t get bored with the same
pattern, and that also means no one will ever know that you
put her in the same dress two days in a row. 2) It serves as both a
dress that they can wear in public and also as a toy, essentially,
because it’s so much fun to play with. Isabella is sometimes
entertained for hours by the endless twirling, which makes me a very
happy mama. And—men, go away again—3) It satisfies the instinctive,
primordial need of womankind to have… a dress… that twirls.
That is my long-winded endorsement for the Best Girly-Girl Dress
Ever, which actually is called a Twirly Girl dress and is a product of Cynthia Mann Jamin’s Twirly Girl line. You can find out more about it at her website, www.twirlygirlshop.com, and there are also pants, leggings and shirts that are equally as scrumptious.
And speaking of scrumptious…
I just added this last photo because it catches Isabella in one of
those rare moments when she looks like a little angel. I love how the
light reflects on her hair. And that adorable button nose… I shall take
it and I shall eat it.
Julia Perla
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Two jobs, one daughter, no spouse . . . and a hundred-and-one things to do.
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