Fashion from a 2nd Grader: Isabella Style

For the last few months, I have been receiving Vogue magazine.  I signed up to get it when I needed to use up a few airline miles to keep my frequent flyer account active.  Of all the magazines I receive (as gifts from others or with airline miles), Vogue was the last on the list that I thought I would really enjoy reading.  Not only does each magazine begin with between 20 and 30 pages of advertisements, Vogue discusses designers I have never heard of, prices of clothing I never could have dreamt up, and fashions that are so highly impractical to my daily life that the likelihood of me being seen wearing them is slim to none.  This being said, I've ended up reading Vogue cover to cover for some of these very reasons:  it is so far removed from my own reality that it delves more into my imaginitive side rather into the self-improvement rhetoric of so many other women's magazines; there are many fascinating articles and interviews that are unrelated to fashion and more in tune with current events and with individuals that normally I would not read about; and it's just fun (plain and simple) to look at lovely photos of outrageous and not-so-outrageous clothing, shoes, and accessories.

That being said, I thought that it would be fun to look at Vogue with #1, Isabella.  From the time she was very small, she has been very creative with whatever clothing she finds in her drawers and closet.  She isn't picky about whether or not it is new or a hand-me-down; in fact, she is always thrilled to have a new-to-her piece of clothing passed along from a friend.  So, we sat down and perused our April Vogue and I explained that high fashion can be very strange and out-there, but that fashion designers are the ones that create new ideas for clothing and then people try to copy them.  I suggested that she take this same idea into her closet and put together her own creative outfits just for the fun of it.  We talked about how you don't have to wear the same thing as everyone else, or have the newest and latest hot item to be "cool"; being yourself and liking your own style is more important.  Apparently, this clicked with her because she came up with some pretty spectacular outfits on her own, not to mention runway worthy makeup, as well.  It was a fun, Saturday activity for us both.  And I got to feel like the Vogue photographer doing a photo shoot.  :-)