Mr. RM to C: (while looking at a book) Which dress of Cinderella’s do you like better, the pink one or the blue one?
C: The blue one:
RM: The pink one’s rather sweet, but those beads Do Not Go:
I’m off in my pumpkin carriage to an overnight training/retreat at our presbytery’s conference center. While I’m gone you can ponder this fashion question for the ages. Or wonder with me about the line of Disney princess wedding gowns.
Here’s the Cinderella one, the caption for which claims it will make the ugly stepsisters even uglier by comparison:
And didn’t we all kinda suspect that Ariel’s would be ever-so-slightly trashy looking?
Ponder a world in which grown women buy dresses inspired by cartoon fairy tale characters. See you tomorrow.
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owww! My mind hurts now.
I think “princess” things can be fun and dreamy. It’s all about perspective though. C & M will be just fine as you seem to strike a good balance between the dream and the reality.
I found it rather sweet that the other night at your home the almost oldest female in the kids group squeezed into C’s Cinderella costume. Fantasy is fun!
Greatly disturbing. You can also have your wedding at Disneyworld, and they make adult size princess underwear. I think I’d rather my kids get married in Vegas than at Disney.
why is cinderella’s hair significantly blonder when she has that blue dress on? did she sneak out and get highlights after scrubbing the floor and before getting dressed for the ball?
I used to have the figure for the Cinderella.
I knew that I had lost the battle when one night I checked on my sleeping daughter. She was holding a naked princess in one hand and a plastic dagger in the other.
Now 12 years later, she wears black eyeliner, nail polish and plans to be Betty Page for Halloween.
Based on my four-year-old boy’s love of Disney princesses and things bridal, I have already found myself pondering the world in which guys go for dresses inspired by fairy tale princesses. Every now and then, he puts on his Cinderella dress - he went for the blue one, and has a matching blue bow for his hair - and walks down our hall very solemnly, hands in front for the bouquet. (”Mama, will you be the prince?” - figure that one out, Freud!)
One day he may kill me for letting him do this. (Yes, we have pictures.) But when he’s on the therapist’s couch in 20 years, I would rather be the mom who let him live his gender fantasies than the mom who deprived him.
Full disclosure: He wanted to be Cinderella for Halloween last year. Since he was the new preacher’s kid in town, and I figured that was spectacle enough, I got him two costumes - Cinderella and Thomas the Tank Engine. Thomas was the hands-down winner. And I realized that I’m not quite the feminist I thought. Looks like he’s going to be Buzz Lightyear for Halloween this year. (”Dad, will you be Woody?”)
Women buying Princess themed dresses really isn’t that much different than the way a lot of women view their wedding anyway. I’ve seen more than my fair share of wedding television shows, so I’ve heard the utterances “I want a fairy tale wedding” and “you look like a princess” more than once. They’re just slightly different degrees of an already entrenched belief.
Yeah, but there’s a princess, and then there’s a princess with a McDonalds logo branded on her butt.
Laura, for all you know he’ll be the only guy in the drag revue with nice memories.
Keith, that would be just fine with me. Maybe he would let me walk him down the aisle again, or at least sit on the front row with a corsage…
The beads really are too much, and what’s with the hot pink shoes, anyway? With princesses, it’s really all about the accessories.
I love the Cinderella wedding dress. My wedding dress was similar, but much better because my mom made it. I wouldn’t want to pay for the Disney label!
Huh. I hear you. I think that is why the Eldridges wrote “Captivating” (to capitalize on the Disneyfication of America…)
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