i don't dress all girly girly, but i do take care to make sure i'm wearing "nice" clothes. i guess being a larger lady, i tend to think i can either dress nicely, or i can get the "walmart" label. we do come from a low socioeconomic area, and i guess i don't like to be "one of those" people that lives in trackies and jumper, with moccies, going down the street

as a result of my own expectations of myself, that i dress nicely to go out, i do the same with DD. She has her home clothes that can, and do, get trashed - and she has her "good" clothes. her good clothes may only be a pair of jeans and a nice jumper (hand knitted etc) as opposed to the trackies she kicks around in at home - and a nice clean(er) pair of shoes. she has her hair brushed and tied up rather than a curly ratty mess when we go out

when she was little, i'd dress her in her "pretty" clothes to go out, so that she actually got to wear them and show them off - people bought them as gifts and i'd hate to think she never used them! now, she gets the choice of her clothes (as long as her choice is weather/outing appropriate), how she wants her hair done, and whether she wants clips etc. we have clear hair ties - any extra adornment is her choice. she has jewellery that she has been given as gifts (two bracelets) and she only gets them on if she asks. she used to wear one all the time cos it was a gift for her first birthday, but it got broken. she generally asks to wear them if i am wearing mine.

i don't "do" make up very often, but sometimes i do (i think i have three times this year lol) - and if she asks to wear some, i put a light bit of eye shadow and clear lipgloss on her (cos that's all i wear lol).