I hate giant bows. I HATE them.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that they look absolutely ridiculous (and most definitely question the mother's taste! Of course, the mother is usually wearing some equally ridiculous get-up herself - Lily Pultizer on a 35-year old - sorry, but get some style?!). However, it's not something to get worked up about - to each his own!

So . . . what's in good taste in your closet??

My closet includes plenty of nice clothing from various places - everything from Max Mara to Ann Taylor Loft, I even throw in a few pieces vintage pieces I've picked up over the years...I personally can't stand Lily Pultizer because I think it's too juvenile and, frankly, makes most people look like they are wearing some horrifically loud wallpaper. I believe in dressing for your body type and your age. Before you get bent out of shape, I would think the same thing of a woman who is trying to pull off a short little min-skirt and crop top at the age of 35-40 years. It's looks tacky and out of place.

HOWEVER, I also said in my original post that it's not something I would ever get so worked up about. I truly believe that dressing is a personal decision. SO - go forth proudly with your Lily dress and don't worry about what I think. Don't be so defensive - part of successful style is about carrying yourself with confidence!

I'd look into the story of how Lily Pulitzer came into being. Pretty inspiring!

I like Lilly in small doses (scarf, tote). Of course, I'm big enough that if I squeezed into a Lilly dress, I would look sort of like a couch.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you writing from Russia?

Nope, but I was born there.

We don't wear bows in Russia.

We do. Did you go to a daycare center or an elementary school there? Huge white bows? I've never seen anything like that in the U.S.

Everything is bigger and better in the STATES!

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Anonymous wrote:Mother of a big bow wearer here. OP the things you hate Re not bows. Those are fascinators. Big difference!

How do you keep the baby/toddler from ripping them off and eating them? My kid would have chewed one of those into a slobbery mess the SECOND my back was turned.

I don't know, I didn't put them on my daughter because I agree those are ugly. When she was about 2 and had enough hair we started with the bows and now she loves them. She picks out which one she wants to wear each day.

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My DDis 16 now but she wore the smaller ones when she was little or a real ribbon. She refused to wear the big bows ( and I tried). All the girls in her school wore them. She said they were ridculous " bowheads" even at the age of 5!

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A former admissions director at a very sought-after area private school used to watch the kids coming in for admissions playdates and mumble, "The bigger the bow, the dumber the child." Mean-spirited for sure but I admit it made me laugh. She was pretty entrenched in the system so I assume she had some background to base her opinion on . . . just saying.

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Anonymous wrote:Between the thread on dog poop, this thread, and the "I hate tattoos" thread, I'm convinced there are way too many people who need something to occupy their time and mind space.

Because really, what normal adult f-ing cares if another person wants to put a giant bow on their baby's head?

Well, given that so many DCUM posters are supposedly Ivy League grads and oh so intelligent, I guess it says something about their interests, abilities, and free time!

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that they look absolutely ridiculous (and most definitely question the mother's taste! Of course, the mother is usually wearing some equally ridiculous get-up herself - Lily Pultizer on a 35-year old - sorry, but get some style?!). However, it's not something to get worked up about - to each his own!

So . . . what's in good taste in your closet??

My closet includes plenty of nice clothing from various places - everything from Max Mara to Ann Taylor Loft, I even throw in a few pieces vintage pieces I've picked up over the years...I personally can't stand Lily Pultizer because I think it's too juvenile and, frankly, makes most people look like they are wearing some horrifically loud wallpaper. I believe in dressing for your body type and your age. Before you get bent out of shape, I would think the same thing of a woman who is trying to pull off a short little min-skirt and crop top at the age of 35-40 years. It's looks tacky and out of place.

HOWEVER, I also said in my original post that it's not something I would ever get so worked up about. I truly believe that dressing is a personal decision. SO - go forth proudly with your Lily dress and don't worry about what I think. Don't be so defensive - part of successful style is about carrying yourself with confidence!

Ha ha! PP here--I'm the tall, slender, classic style type of dresser--not trendy and definitely not one to wear a Lily dress. Still, I do have some shorter, curvier friends who look cute in them during the spring and summer months.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here.

I do not hate all hair bows. For example....



Cute.




However these








Ridiculous.

Here's my impression of the kind of "Mommy" that puts those last three bows on her kids: owns 2+ cats (with names like "Mister Man", and "Jazz Paws Spirit Claws"), wears a lot of foundation and perfume, has hair that she uses aqua net or Aussie scrunch spray on, sends her DD to cheer leading camp and enters her in baby pageants, has scrap-booking as a hobby, has dried flowers on her walls and balloon valences adorning her windows, makes a lot of casseroles, secretly binge eats pastries in her minivan, has a DH that still wears a denim shirt with his jeans and cell phone holster, and owns a lot of Yankee candles.

Those last three bows are not "Lilly Pulitzer mommy" bows. And I've never seen a little girl in DC wearing one of them, unless she was a tourist. Maybe in the VA and MD suburbs, but never seen a city mom put something like that on her kid.

Thanks for the laugh with those pics and your description, but please don't try to say that they're commonly worn in the VA and MD suburbs!

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Proud mother of a bow wearing Lilly Pulitzer clad 2.5 yr old. I prefer her classic, timeless look to the clothes sold at stores like Target, children's place and the like. Fashion is a matter of preference and personal style, so let's agree to disagree. I don't like what you put on your kids, you don't like the way I dress mine either.

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I'll admit to really disliking the baby girl headband bows/flowers/whatever. I always think they look silly.

However, now having a 7 month old boy, I suspect that once he's old enough to have likes/dislikes regarding his attire, I'll let him wear anything that makes him happy. I live to see that smile. And I imagine I would feel the same with a little girl. If she loved big, froofy bows, she'd be wearing big, froofy bows.

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Anonymous wrote:The bigger the bow, the better the Mama.

(It's a Southern thing)

Let me weigh in to say that bow-wearing is a THING and the moms who stick enormous bows in their girls' hair dress them in smocked dresses and Mary Janes and their boys wear smocked overalls with Peter Pan collars, white socks and saddle shoes. It's a look that tries to state, "I'm white, I'm Southern, I'm rich, I'm conservative."

Oh, and the kids forced to wear these costumes are named Makenzie, Hannah, Grace, Taylor, Kylie, Sadie, Lexie, Emma (with a middle name of Hope, Rose, Nicole -select one) or Jackson, Samuel, Braxton, Max, Gavin, Henry, William, Braden, Aiden, Hayden, Carter, with a middle name of Troy,
Kyle, Ian, or pretentious sounding family name like Worthington).

That is all.

When I was a college age sorority girl, 20 years ago, we used to joke that the farther south a girl's chapter was the bigger her hair bow would be. Minnesota = no bows. Illinois = small bows. Missouri = bigger bows. Missippi = bows so big they could double as satellite dishes.

You wore bows in your hair in college in the 90s?

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Anonymous wrote:I'll admit to really disliking the baby girl headband bows/flowers/whatever. I always think they look silly.

However, now having a 7 month old boy, I suspect that once he's old enough to have likes/dislikes regarding his attire, I'll let him wear anything that makes him happy. I live to see that smile. And I imagine I would feel the same with a little girl. If she loved big, froofy bows, she'd be wearing big, froofy bows.

Why don't you try a big pink and green Lily bow on him and see how he likes it?

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Not the PP but, in a Virginia college in 1990, I had a full complement of floppy, chiffon bows that were attached to barrettes. I remember pulling my hair back into a low ponytail and then clipping the bow to the ponytail holder.

Fresh out of college and into my first entry-level job in '91, I wore the same bow ponytail with my navy blue skirted suit, running shoes with pumps tucked into my brief case.
(Shudder). I was right in style. Those were scary times, children.

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Anonymous wrote:Not the PP but, in a Virginia college in 1990, I had a full complement of floppy, chiffon bows that were attached to barrettes. I remember pulling my hair back into a low ponytail and then clipping the bow to the ponytail holder.

Fresh out of college and into my first entry-level job in '91, I wore the same bow ponytail with my navy blue skirted suit, running shoes with pumps tucked into my brief case.
(Shudder). I was right in style. Those were scary times, children.

I think I had that same chiffon hair clip. It was mauve; a color that went so far out of style it will be THE SEASON'S HOTTEST COLOR! any day now.

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She definitely belongs to Jack and Jill