Dressing like a total hipster is as easy as turning 3 years old.
Sharing quality looking-in-different-directions time with her sons.
(via Instagram)
Summer Bellesa is a 34-year-old mom (slash actress, slash fashion blogger, slash art director) who decided that, after three years of dressing her oldest boy Rockwell (Sam or Norman?), she would give him the opportunity to dress her for a week.
"I thought it would be fun to turn the tables and let him pick my outfits out for a few days." she wrote on Babble.com. "How crazy could it be?"
Turns out, not too crazy. She ended up looking like every other adult in a state of arrested development who dresses like a child.
Plus, all the clothing was from her wardrobe, and she admittedly likes "everything in my closet."
Here she is on day one.
Williamsburg ready.
She loved the grey skirt/Bob Dylan tee combo. The real wild turn of events? Nude shoes!!! Who is this baby???
"I walked down the stairs to show off my outfit to my husband," she wrote. "I waited for a laugh, but he didn't notice anything different."
That's probably because those are your clothes.
How about day 2?
Perfect to check out that band you've never heard of.
Rockwell picked out a Mickey tee and some polka-dot leggings. She said this was her favorite outfit of the week.
I think now is a good time to point out that Summer is a former model. You can put any kooky outfit on a model and it will look polished and fun. That's why models exist.
For a counterpoint, I Google image-searched "ugly woman, polka-dot leggings," and you know what I found? Beautiful women in polka-dot leggings. (Also a toddler, but Google does its best.) The lesson here? Don't try this look at home unless you are a model.
Day three takes us to what is probably the craziest outfit.
This look says, "I'm the one that brought the Four Loko."
Yes, that sock and shoe combo is ridiculous. Mind you, those socks were her "new Woven Pear socks" that she had just bought, so I feel like any ridiculousness is on her, not the tot.
Plus, on Wiki-How's "How to be a Hipster Girl," they specifically instruct women that "it is always appropriate to wear high socks or colorful tights. Always." Nevertheless, this is the first (and I think only) outfit that made her feel insecure.
As she wrote on Babble,
"I was a little self-conscious running my errands that day, but again, to my surprise I didn't get one double-take or stare of curiosity. Instead, I got a woman who stopped me to tell me she liked my socks!"
Whew. It all worked out.
From there on, she just coasts.
Day four.
Shirt don't hurt.
The kid picked out three shirts, no pants. Common decency made her instruct Rockwell that pants would have to be chosen, and her elevated fashion sense layered her shirts in an interesting way.
Bonus points for wearing two different leopard print shoes.
Day five, the final outfit.
Two different boots!
The most mundane outfit, although Summer notes that Rockwell would have had her put on some pants with arrows on them if she had them. Of course, she didn't have them. Once again, mis-matched shoes. Children are crazy dressers!
Summer wrote that the lesson she learned from this experiment is that no one is really paying attention to what you are wearing, so you should just have fun with it, and also that "silliness is good for your kids and for your heart."
The lesson I learned? It impossible to wear a bad outfit if all of your clothes are great and you look like a model.
Want to get really silly? Let your kids pick out the clothes from the store.
(All images via Babble/Summer Bellessa)