If You've Got It, I Want It
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen those pictures of little kids all dressed merrily in white, sitting very still and smelling daisies or something equally inane as that? Well, in case you’ve been taken in by the nicey-nicey, lovey-dovey impression these pictures create, let me tell you something – it doesn’t happen in real life. It’s a set-up. Yes, accept it and move away from that rail of white kiddies’ clothes that tempts you so much. One, children don’t sit long enough to smell flowers; they squeeze them, they mutilate them, they scrunch them up. They do not smell them. Two, no child under twelve can wear white for more than five minutes without something being spilled down it. For mothers, too, white is an option that can be shelved for at least ten years. I don’t know how exactly it all happens, but it is a foregone conclusion that by the...