Fashionista?

Hello little one.....
       Your mother and I have already started shopping for your
clothes.  What are clothes, you ask?  Good question!
        Clothes started as pieces of material people would wear to keep
warm, to keep clean or to protect their bodies from injury or the weather.
        During the Great Depression, when your Great Grandma Donna was
a little girl, she got a new dress or a pair of shoes once a year - but
never both.   Clothes were sewn by hand and washed by hand in a
big tub.  They were hung outside on a clothesline to dry in summer
or hung over the furnace in the winter. Clothes were mended when
they got torn or lost buttons. They were handed down from child to child.
        When Gr.Grandma Donna had her own little girl (me) the economic
times were better! She wanted me to have the things she never had, so she
wanted to take me shopping. But I wouldn't go!  I was happiest in my 
jeans and sweatshirts and wanted to be riding my bike, reading, swimming
or riding my horse! What a disappointment I must have been!
        Your mother Shelley, however, was a fashionista from the day she
was born. For her, life was about the outfit she got to wear! No jeans
and sweatshirts for her. Designer labels were IT! P.S. You can get lost
in her closet, so know how to send for help before entering!  :)
        Unfortunately, in this modern world and properous economy,
clothes and fashion have become bigger than life.  They have become
a way to communicate "personality" to the outside world; to proclaim your
social status; to attract friends and lifemates or to rebel against authority.  
As clothes cover less and less of the body, it seems people have forgotten
why we have them in the first place!
      As you are growing up, I hope you remember that clothes
are just clothes.  They have a function and do not define who you
are as a person.  Designer or K-mart......it doesn't matter.  What
defines you is what is in your heart and your head. I promise to love
you whatever you are wearing.... (but we will definitely have to
discuss tattoos and other body art).
      Love, Grandma
P.S.  The prettiest thing you will ever wear is a smile!