Seeing Red
Features, LOVE88, Parenting & Children — By 88DB Editor on December 29, 2010 5:00 pm
Receiving red packets may be what your kids love most about Lunar New Year, but dressing them up like red packets is definitely not be the best way to usher in the New Year
Kids Fashionista Dos and Don’ts
- Dress your kids up in brightly coloured apparels like red, blue, green, yellow or pink. After all, this is the only time when you can dress them up before they start growing up faster than you know it and start having opinions on their own dress sense. And nothing cheers up the grandparents and relatives faster than a spunky kid dressed in auspicious, brightly coloured clothes.
- Remember that comfort takes priority over fashion, at least for kids. 100% cotton tops are preferable to lycra, polyester and other materials. The reason is that kids being kids, will always be running and playing, especially in the company of their cousins and friends.
- Even if you do not try to match their entire outfits with the accessories, you can always try to mix and match by theme. Try ballerina flats or Mary-Janes (Especially the patent ones) with dresses for little girls and dark-coloured leather shoes instead of canvas with shirts and shorts or pants for boys.
- Always have contingency plans such as bringing a cardigan or jacket for cool weather and extra set of clothes when your child spills his drink or wet from perspiration
- Do dress up, too. You do want to be seen as the reasons for your kids’ fashion forward style, right?
- Go light on the make-up for your children. First, too much make-up this early in their lives would do more harm to their skin and second, this is the Lunar New Year and not Halloween
- Same rules apply to the young ones similar to adults in terms of accessories. You may really love Christmas but do not let your kid become the tree.
- And since this is the year of the Rabbit, add a finishing touch to their outfits by letting the girls don bunny ears or furry accessories and the boys wearing cute rabbit-inspired tees.
Dressing for the festival may be an important part of sharing the festive joy but what’s more essential is that your kids have fun and celebrate the Lunar New Year as it should be, a joyous celebration of togetherness as a family.
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