Playing Dress Up

Clothing forms a major part of our choice and does speak a lot about our personality. No wonder, in a shopping spree dress up fun is probably what we all splurge into – big time! Perhaps widow shopping also calls for this clip art.

As a kid most girls do spend a lot of their time being dedicated mothers to their Barbie. Playing dress up, nursing them, preparing them for school, teaching them and so on happens in quite a serial order. In this ordeal we would end up revising our nursery lessons a number of times. (Well! That did serve quite a good deal.)

Apart from dictating the welfare of our toys, trying the wardrobe of our parents, siblings or other elders in the family would always be exciting. I personally would jump a level higher and go about trying to look either like James Bond, or some other such cartoon/ comic character. I know, you are nodding your head and gleefully remembering your ‘those’ days now!

Playing dress up would also be a great feat during the annual functions in school. How can we ever forget those times when we would make our mothers run the four corners of the world to come out with the most extra ordinary or uncommon idea about our outfit! Remember? It was hugely dress up fun for us, but a little more rigorous for our mothers.

For all the good things in life we always want them to either never end or at least come back. Dress up fun thankfully does come back during parenthood. In an effort to design new outfits for our kids, or buying them something new, or dressing them up for a particular occasion, or arranging their wardrobe, or their school uniform and the like, we do come across raging sessions of laughter, giggle, mimicry and a lot more. Interestingly, playing dress up using mama’s old sari, or shawls, bed sheets etc. eventually create a library of fond memories.