Urban Kid Closet – April 15th, 2013

I scooped up this top on sale from the Gap a few years ago, but it only started fitting her this past fall… and I found it a bit tough to pair. Sure it looked great with these adorable pink cords as well as with these cute skinny cargos, but pants are decidedly NOT her favourite. She looks at me as if she’s punished whenever I make her wear some. (Prepare yourselves for The Summer of The Dress, y’all.)
But late this winter, while I was in-store shopping at Zara, I spied this simple skirt in camo-green with an elastic waist. (Sadly, it was not on sale, and you know how I hate that, but it ought to fit her for a long while.) I thought it might go well with lots of her other things, and if her grey tights would work with it (they would!) then she’d have something else to wear as a bottom for the rest of the winter/spring, and we’d likely have less fights about pants-wearing. Because tutus are sometimes just too precious for school, you know.
And like I said, the plain grey tights she owns have been perfectly fine, but those new ones I bought the other day? The pink-y striped ones have almost the very SAME colour scheme in them as the funky top. Only the top has green in it… much like the skirt itself. And the cheeriness of the tights feels more like spring, and less like boo-hoo winter, as she looked wearing the grey. (Okay, she was still totally cute in the grey ones too, but these are even better.)
A little ruffle heeere… another over theeere… man, I love it when an outfit comes together. It’s a bit like magic.
PS – Don’t mind her while she plays her tuning organ.
Ava Scarlett wears:
funky coloured smock top – Gap, about $15 sale
ruffle skirt in khaki – Zara, $29.90
lollipop striped tights in pink, Country Kids – Tiny Soles, $12
brown leather riding boots – Zara, $65 $25.99 (sale)