What a great topic, Sally -- and your boys are hilarious!! So interesting to learn that the sandals are mandatory. They look like British summer sandals from the 1940s. As Smittie says, for kids here (well, face it, for almost everyone here) it is all Tevas, all summer. Or Birkies.
So, my family.
In Family of Origin, my mother loved fashion but rarely spent on herself. In her extreme youth she had some lovely things, many gifted by wealthier friends, because she was poor -- dirt poor -- but pretty, and charming. She wore her hand-me-downs well.
In her old age, I bought her a lot of clothes and she had a fetish about "bootEEES" as she called them. She LOVED them. She adored my Munros. When I joined You Look Fab she was intensely interested in everything I bought, especially the bootEEEES.
Dad was indifferent on the whole and let mum dress him, except he had a fetish for leather jackets. He adored them, and kept buying them for himself. Often in colours Mum found unflattering on him or didn't like, period. So she would complain loudly about his choices. My dad had my very cool colouring but he liked to wear brown. Not chocolate brown, but tan, yellowy brown.
Enough said.
Dear brother dresses sportily but nicely. He cleans up well. He wears a ton of Banana Republic stuff and looks good in it. If he's not wearing that, he wears gear.
DH comes from Massachusetts and is still a prep at heart. He wears button downs, in winter, a V neck sweater, and some sort of khakis or corduroys every day. When I met him he used to wear jeans, but not so much any more. In summer he likes linen shirts and pants. He wears a lot of Banana stuff also, and has some higher end pieces from British shirtmakers because in shirts he is hard to fit. He also has very narrow feet so has some expensive and beautiful shoes for dress wear. Apparently when young he used to shop in Montreal and had designer wear -- Yves St. Laurent and the like. That was before my time.
DD is like Muffin's DD. She is 16 and cares zero about fashion, except that she does not want to look girly. I buy all her clothes -- she wants them as boyish as possible and wants nothing to do with choosing them, although she does give me some directives, and I notice she now prefers drapey tees with her BF shorts and has learned the type of neckline that suits her. Like Muffin, I find it frustrating until I see her friends, who are dressed skimpily. She is more modest.
She also takes my interest in fashion in good humour and when she is ready for advice, she'll ask me. Our body types are quite different as she is adopted. We are the same height but she is a fairly stocky IT.
DD and Mum on her 9th birthday, me and brother on same day; me, DD, and DH in Israel last year just before that birthday.
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