Here’s my Boo. He is normally such an introverted little guy, but show him a bunch of costumes, and he is all over the place. Our tubs of costumes have been out for a few weeks, and everyday Boo is putting on any one of a number of combinations of various costumes. And it is cute, but even cuter is how funny he thinks it is. He has the best laugh.
I have to say all three of my shorties have been over the top excited about all these different shoots. And whenever we do pics with other families, they seem to have a blast as well. It just proves to me even more how imaginative kids are and how much fun a tub full of costumes, wigs, and accessories can be. It also shows me how little consideration is taken as far as ‘gender appropriateness” goes. The most fun seems to happen when the kids [and adults] are wearing that which is least like the wearer, like men in long wigs and girls in mustaches.
That’s great! My daughter also loves to dress up. Now that she is almost ten and starting to develop more womanly curves (already!!), her old dress-up stuff hardly fits her anymore. And some things that used to be huge on her, like her 70′s gold chunky strappy sandal heels actually fit her perfectly. I remember she used to dress up in grown up brightly colored, loud 60′s or 70′s style dresses I picked up from yard sales or thrift stores and clog around in those awful giant old shoes and now that stuff actually fits. :( My baby is growing up too fast. But she still loves to dress up! So do I, for that matter… Do we ever outgrow it?
It sounds like a great time!
Boo looks adorable! But I can’t tell if he is Batgirl or Batboy or Batperson! LOL. He just looks like an adorable little boy in a bat costume!
I was Batgirl this year at DC’s annual drag event, Miss Adams Morgan….and looked better than most women!
Costumes and dress up happen year round in my house. I have a 10 year old little girl and from about age 3 she has loved dress up. But not just heels and dresses. We have gone through every character and career you can think of. Her birthday was in August and she has now spent every bit of birthday money on new costumes ranging from doctors to ninjas to cheerleaders.
Cool!
My favorite of my boys’ costume combinations was “SuperSpiderBat” when they couldn’t decide and wore a piece from each. Isn’t the whole purpose of costuming to become someone we are not?
Kids don’t come out gender biased.. society makes them that way. Which is sad that we do it. I think they should learn to be comfortable however they are and know they are loved and respected. What you wear does not make you who you are, that is defined by your character.
Batman & Robin were my role models as a boy. Not in the way you’d think! That show is so camp, the creators and actors must have known…I loved make believe when I was boy. My main role model was Samantha. Oh how I longed to be able to twitch my noise and make my parents be nice people or failing that making them f… off, oops, I mean disappear.