Roxie Discovers Hats and Mirrors

"Would it fit Roxie?"     My daughter-in-law's question. I was talking about the small collection of my own baby clothes--one dress, two overalls, a slip, a hat--that I'd recently washed.   Should I photograph them, transform them into an artful statement?

Her question was unexpected, more personal.  Roxie was now too grown for the blue lawn dress.  After 70 years, it's too worn for my vibrant granddaugher.  I would try my baby hat.

In January, she'd allow the hat to entertain her on her grandfather's head, on a doll.  It was a few weeks past her first birthday. Roxie's primary focus was steps between closely placed pieces of furniture.

By this month, she has moved ahead to walking, even running.

As a lark, I put on  this  little black hat as Ron held her.  She did not take it off!  Where would this lead?  A game perhaps.  I offered her Grandma's hat.

Here was an idea that literally had legs; she hurried to the full length mirror in the next room to observe herself.  Roxie had moved to the next level of consciousness:  fashion by hat,  a delightful game for the three of us.

Latest sweater made for her, hen of course.  Charming pattern from Amy Bahrt's book, "Creature Comforts", could have been easier to follow.  Classic Elite's "Bazic" wool, very nice to work with on #7 needles.  Yes, highly impractical to make a white sweater for a one-year-old.  I get carried away (link to lyrics from 1944 musical, "On the Town").

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Hat tip to Eduardo Porter who writing in today's New York Times about the huge sums that will be needed to arrest global warming :

"People often sacrifice the future to the present.  We may love our children and grandchildren.  But since they can't vote, we stiff them in the public sphere...The best case for bold action now is that it provides insurance against the chance of an unfathomably grim future...Averting that...is worth quite a lot of investment today."

Read it all in, "Are the Grandkids Worth the Money?"

Comments

[Claude]

Roxie is just lovely! And both the sweater and the hat are just so creative. No wonder she ran to the mirror!

[Bethene LeMahieu]

Dear Naomi,

Thank you for sharing Roxie's initiation into "fashion-by-hat" consciousness. (She is adorable.) The beat goes on!

Bethene