fancy pants
Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 8:17PM American Apparel makes these leggings. These GOLD leggings. In the early days of my pregnancy, before I knew George was a George and not a Prairie (steal my name and I'll kill you -- wait, who am I kidding? Nobody else would ever use this name), I dreamed about my little long-haired lady wearing Holly Hobbie dresses and dancing around the garden to Vashti Bunyan. And these leggings completed her outfit.
Then, I had a boy. But! What do you know? My boy is fancy. When given a choice between pretty gray and hot pink, there's nary a glance toward the understated. He is a gold leggings kinda kid. In addition, however, to the myriad other unfortunate facts about American Apparel, they want $20 for their gold leggings, and I am not about to lay down money for something I could make in about fifteen minutes. If I were more ambitious and/or didn't have soup on the stove and bread that is failing to rise but must, nevertheless, be watched hawkishly, I might do some sort of tutorial, but alas. Instead, here's one that someone else seems to have worked hard on (No promises about the blog; I just googled "leggings tutorial.").
They are an undeniable hit. He wore them out last night to the songwriters' circle at Honeymoon and got not one, but three shout-outs from musicians, plus a bunch of pokes and squeezes from adoring strangers. What can I say? If I ran for president, my platform would be Gold Leggings For Everyone.
Reader Comments (3)
yet another reason why linc and george are friends... linc loves all things fancy! and george is for sure a fancy kid :)
lamé tell you how much I love these leggings....
Might I recommend: "Gold Leggings for some... tiny American flags for others!"