My daughter’s vanity knows no bounds. Just now she’s over at her cousin’s house for a birthday party, and the invitation specified that the party is a “painting party” so guests should wear unfancy clothes that their mothers weren’t concerned about. When Lydia saw the sweatpants and sweatshirt I had set out for her–neither garment stained or torn or otherwise objectionable as far as I (or any rational person) could see–she kicked up quite a fuss, refusing to wear them. She relented only when I pointed out that if she didn’t wear them she wouldn’t be going to the party at all, but even so she spent a good ten or fifteen minutes standing in front of the mirror complaining about her appearance.<\/p>\n
When I was her age, I know I would have loved the opportunity to “dress down” for a party, but if I’ve learned anything by now it’s that Lydia and I are like chalk and cheese when it comes to matters of fashion (and many other matters, unfortunately).<\/p>\n
As illustration, I’ll leave you with a hilariously appropriate tidbit that a friend of mine happened upon quite by chance yesterday and passed along to me: go to Google and do an image search<\/a> on “not the boss of me.” You’ll laugh, I promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My daughter’s vanity knows no bounds. Just now she’s over at her cousin’s house for a birthday party, and the invitation specified that the party is a “painting party” so guests should wear unfancy clothes that their mothers weren’t concerned about. When Lydia saw the sweatpants and sweatshirt I had set out for her–neither garment… Read More So Vain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}