OliveGreen's Baby Phat thread is such fun to read! JNZ's photo of her granddaughter's tiny feet in grown-up yellow shoes made my morning.

It made me want to ask about the obverse: style choices of any small people in your life: kids, grandkids, neighbors, nieces, nephews, students, customers.

Here's the funniest thing I remember about LMA. When he was two (1999), his dad and I went to London and brought him a plastic British bobby hat which he adored. I was in grad school at the time and there was a department party to which families were welcomed. I let him pick what to wear and he chose a regular outfit (comfortable tee, sweatpants) topped by the bobby hat and a long strand of pearls.

I guess he had caught on that parties meant dressing up.

I taught nursery school for many years, and we certainly had some interesting dressers in those classes. One little girl liked to wear a one-piece bathing suit under every outfit, plus purply-pink lipstick. Every now and then we had a mother who'd send her daughter to school in expensive dresses and party shoes, then complain if she painted or went in the sandbox or played at the water table. A memorably gorgeous 2-year-old boy showed up in designer clothes with similar guidance from his mom not to get dirty.