Fashion and frumpiness, Kids edition

Why don’t today’s stars know how to carry stylish clothes with cool demeanor? I mentioned in a previous entry how Hollywood ladies today lack gravitas even when stitched up in Gautier couture. Well, I was flipping through several magazines today and was focused on the sections of stars with their kids. The kids look just as frumpy as their parents: Wearing non-ironed clothes, jeans, raggedy shirts, frumpy hats, ugly shoes.

Ugly! But expensive, mind you. Stars go to great lengths to get the most expensive ugly clothes for their kids. Well, i’ve figured it: Kids, since the Victorian age, have always worn miniature adult clothing. Think of Alice in Wonderland . They wore the baby versions of their parents’ clothes. And really, today the same is happening. Only today, grown-ups don’t wear polished clothes. They go about in jeans, sweats, sneakers. And so do their kids.

Little Suri Cruise is an exception to this trend. Her parents seem to want to create a Victorian enchanted universe for her, where little girls look polished and princessy. And why not? I would do the same! I mean no wonder adult stars have no sense of style and no clue on how to present style when it’s handed to them. They grew up wearing slacks, cotton Ts and other frumpy clothes.

CHIC:

UNCOOL:

~ by rottenfruit on November 25, 2008.