[CallMeProtart]

I've just sent my son to daycare in a pettiskirt. If he's scarred for life I'm blaming youse all.
Now a day of anxiety wondering if he'll be teased

I wish I'd never read that damned thread!

[countrymel]

He'll be fine!

I however still bear a few scars from when dad entered me (unbeknownst to my sensible feminist Mum) in the "Little Miss Regatta Girl" pageant when I was about 3!

Plonked on stage with an array of tiny beauty queens in petticoats, ringlets and puffy sleeves Dad was shocked and appalled when I didn't win.

"It was a bloody farce *Countrymel's Mum*!" he spluttered afterwards.. "She was the only girl there who was dressed to go on a boat, I just don't get it?"

Dad didn't understand that my natty outfit of blue shorts, blue sneakers, a t shirt with nautical symbols and my little captains hat perched on my short hair was NOT what the judges were looking for!

[crayons]

All of the photos around daycare of my son are of him dressed up in "girls" clothes. The photo on the front of his communication book is of him in a beautiful pink boa. I am very confident he has never been teased

[*Finn*]

lol country mel

I too thought of the same thread last night OP when I was painting toe nails with my son. Sad isnt it.

[mivimummy]

He'll be fine I'm sure

My very alpha male younger brother went through a phase of wanting to copy everything I did, including what i wore, for quite some time as a preschooler. There are some lovely pics lurking around at Mum's with us both in matching frilly nighties!

Good on him and you!

[silvek1978]

What is a pettiskirt exactly? Is it another name for pettycoat?

[CallMeProtart]

If it's one of the gorgeous pettiskirts you make I'm sure you'll get plenty of orders!

eta; scratch that if you don't make pettiskirts... I could be thinking of the wrong EBer!

Thanks! I do sell them so it's probably me, I don't make them though

CountryMel - love it! Very Little Miss Sunshine.

Mivimummy - I have a photo like that of my brother in one of my dresses. Unfortunately he was coerced into it and has never quite forgiven me...

Silvek it's like a petticoat except can be used as an outer skirt.

The main reason I feel guilty is that it's all my fault And that stupid EB thread!
I started feeling bad about the times he's wanted to go to a party in a pettiskirt, or wanted girls shoes, and I sort of steered him away. Now he's used to it and doesn't ask for them anymore... and that thread made me feel like I'd stifled his creativity... So he was watching me put his sister's one on, and I thought of this thread, so I sort of asked quietly "Do you want one too, DS?" And he said yes. So I got him one of DD's old ones and he started swishing about. Then I felt like crap because if he got teased it was my fault for bringing it up when he hadn't even asked.
THEN he took it off and his shoes, I forget why. I think he was being a horse. And then when he got dressed again he forgot the skirt. And I thought "ok, good". And then I thought "oh crap - he's going to remember at some stage and then be upset". So I said "do you want the skirt or leave it off?" And he wanted it and put it back on.

So, TWO opportunities for him to leave the house in perfectly normal boy clothes, and TWICE I offer him a skirt.
That's why I'm feeling guilty.
We go to the post office, and the lady sees him and says "What are you wearing? Are you a boy or a girl?" and then sees DD in her pettiskirt and goes "Oh don't you look beautiful!"
Cue me feeling like a complete idiot for thinking that people would let a 2yo wear whatever the hell they wanted to. Then we show up at daycare, and his favourite carer is thrilled and thinks he's a legend And then we go out and a few of the 4-5yo boys are staring at him from behind a pole going "there's a boy in a skirt!"

So I think I maybe majorly stuffed up

After the post office incident I did try to tell him "if anyone says anything about your skirt, tell them "I can wear whatever I want" " But I don't think he really got it. Or could think why anyone would say anything about his skirt.

Have I just been a complete tool???

[BadCat]

Hopefully your boy will not care that people are being rude about his skirt. I truly hope this is the case and I'm glad he is happy with his flouncy skirt.

It's unfair that people will judge him for it but judge they will. Every time.

[CallMeProtart]

And for today only, here are my two angels in their pettiskirts for their daycare Christmas party



Badcat, I hope you're right. I'll have to chat to his carers next week and see how he went in it (DH picks him up tonight so I won't see them). On the plus side, his best friend and his favourite carer were unfazed, so hopefully he won't give a stuff about anyone else!

[BadCat]

Very cute.