Rebecca has a number of outfits with “stuff” on the butt. She has a romper with a fish on the butt, a sleeper with a bee on the butt, pants with a heart on the butt . . . you get the idea. These happen to be some of my favorite outfits, and I think they are totally adorable.
I’ve been browsing for baby clothes online lately since Rebecca will soon me moving up a clothing size, and today I found myself wondering at what age clothing manufacturers stop putting fun stuff on the rear end of kids’ clothes. Well of course it dawned on me that they never do stop, not even for adult clothes! It is not uncommon to see high school and college age girls wearing lounge pants or shorts with “Juicy” or “Pink” plastered across the butt. This I find not so adorable.
Now I wonder, at what point does butt adornment go from totally adorable to totally skanky? Does a child wake up one morning, say, on the first day of pre-school, and suddenly these things are no longer acceptable? Or is there some sort of gradual continuum where the stuff is really cute on babies and toddlers, somewhat amusing on grammar school kids, questionable on junior high and high school students, inappropriate on people over the age of 18, and really gross on anyone over 40?
I really don’t know the answer. For now, I think as long as Rebecca wears a diaper that gives her a big puffy butt, I can safely put her in clothes with pictures on the rear end.
*Juicy butt picture from andrewapeterson.com/2009/08/hairy-butt-logo-pants/.
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