Clothes and the 15 year old boy

[jamjar]

"It does make me look kind of gay, but it makes my shoulders look good, so I bought it."

The morning after Mum's trip to the London fashion-weekend.

After trying on the top mum bought ("It doesn't fit, I don't have mum's shoulders."), and then the trousers ("These are huge! You're not that fat."), he tried on the matching skirt. Voluntarily.

It made him look very slim-hipped, and almost... demure. Not his colour, but the style definitely suited him.

I feel sorry for all of you with younger brothers that stopped playing dress-up when they hit double figures.

I also need to get the boy a trilby hat, since it's only the fact that mine (same as your's, girl_starfish) has a lace-band glued to it that stops him wearing it out of the house, instead of just wearing it whenever he's at home, and honestly, I'm not sure how much longer that'll last. the current pattern of clothes theft seems to go:

Mum: takes clothes from dad and both sons, mainly shirts or jumpers, and occasionally complains about the fact that my feet remain a size smaller, thus preventing her from taking my shoes. Takes dad's socks on a regular basis.

Big brother: occasionally takes odd items -ties, use of a suit- from dad. And socks, of course.

Little brother: takes hat from me and socks from dad.

Dad: doesn't take from anyone, really. Spends his time sewing red thread to his socks to mark them as his, in a futile attempt at stopping everyone else taking them.

Me: takes occasional scarves from dad. Also umbrellas and cufflinks.

Poor dad. His tiny feet and greater height, the fact that he has no shoulders and mum definitely does... all of it does nothing to prevent open season on his clothes.

Comments

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

I always find clothes sharing in families a tad amusing, since my family is of rather differing clothing choices (also body builds) Dad's 6' and broad shouldered, mum's 5'1 and stocky-slim, though not very curvy, bro is a bit shorter than dad but a bit better built, and I'm 5'3, stocky and very curvy, prone to showing a lot of skin. (mum cannot for the life of her figure out why I have an hourglass figure).

The most that ever happens is when Dad used to nick my brother's school ties and the time mum nicked my t-shirts and shorts when I was ten, because that was the last time we were the same shape and likely to own anything that was of the same tastes.

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

Well, that's the thing, we're all different sizes too. You just can't underestimate familial kleptomania.

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

when I lived at home my dad used to assign socks and underwear by a magical and archain system bearing no relation to the gender, size oir tastes of the recipients, so we had the oposit situation where peope wer wandering round returning socks ...

NB - just booked the NMA tickets! yay! no free evenings for coffee this week, but book me for next?