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| It's January, but many kids dress as if it's June - Lexington Herald-Leader Posted: 17 Jan 2011 10:14 PM PST at 12:00am on Jan 18, 2011 — Associated Press Modified at 1:41am on Jan 18, 2011 NEW YORK — Among the great spectacles of winter, along with the northern lights and frozen lakes, are coatless kids. No coat, no gloves? No prob! These teens and tweens are chillin' out, literally and figuratively, in their sweatshirts and kicks. Maybe a boy will accessorize with a baseball cap, and a girl might choose stylish boots — but nothing weatherproof, please! Some boys even wear shorts year-round, and many parents say they've given up the fight. For example, Jack Rogers, 12, of Fishers, Ind., was wearing shorts in December. "I know lots of kids who do that," he said. His grandma doesn't understand. "It's 15 degrees. Why doesn't he have a coat on him?" she asked. "I told her, 'I have to pick and choose my battles,'" said Jack's mom, Shelley Rogers Landes. "I need to let him make decisions that really are inconsequential at the end of the day." In a telephone interview, Jack explained his reasons for dressing light in winter: "Coats are just a hassle, putting it all on. It makes me bulky. I just like to be in short sleeves." He doesn't mind gloves, but boots? "Nah, I don't like 'em." If his sneakers get wet, he says, "it doesn't really bother me." Tracy Colon of Lexington is adjusting to the cold weather since moving from Florida, but her kids aren't. "My children still think we are there. My son walks out to the car line in his T-shirt. But hey, he says he has his jacket wrapped around his waist," she said. "My middle school daughter walks out the door in her hoodie and offers me the 'comfort' of having her jacket safely tucked in her backpack," she said. Colon constantly reminds her kids to wear their coats, even turning the laundry room into a coat closet, she said. "I just tell them we are taught about wearing coats at 'mom school' and have to remind them. But I still see the mental eye-rolls." Carleton Kendrick of Millis, Mass., a family therapist, says that for teens, "wearing bulky winter coats, gloves, boots — unless teen girls consider them high fashion — and hats screams nerd, geek, baby, dork ... uncool!" He said: "Short of real and present danger of your teens getting frostbite, let them deal with being cold to be cool." Jane Samuel, who blogs as MavenMama for BlueGrassMoms.com, wonders whether there might be something more going on with kids who don't want to wear winter coats. Samuel, who has learned about sensory disorders while working on therapy with her daughter, said she wonders if a child who doesn't want to wear a coat in winter could have a sensory-processing disorder. With her own child, "she is cold when we are all warm, warm when we are all cold. We have been doing occupational therapy now for a while, and it is much improved." Autumn O'Bryan said she was shocked, after moving to New Hampshire from Los Angeles, to see "girls and boys with sweatshirts and sneakers in a blizzard waiting for their bus. I even saw a couple of boys with short-sleeve shirts. The only hats were baseball hats, and no gloves or boots on anyone." O'Bryan had been fighting with her son about wearing a coat, but "after that, I gave up and have never brought it up again." In Alaska, of course, the dangers of frostbite and hypothermia are real. "Our teenagers are the same as everyone else's — they think they're Superman, they're invincible — but our weather is different," said Shelby Nelson, spokeswoman for Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. She said local media, schools, police and other officials work to get the message out to kids that dressing warmly is a matter of safety. Even a car ride can turn deadly if you break down and have to walk a mile in 20-below-zero weather. And contrary to what some parents might think, Art Strauss, an emergency room physician at Fairbanks Memorial, said raging teen hormones do not raise body temperature. "There is not any truth to that," he said. Wendy Kerschner of Adamstown, Pa., says her 14-year-old son simply doesn't mind cold air on his legs, so he "wears shorts to school almost every day." Her husband doesn't think it's a big deal, because the only time their son is outside is when he is waiting for the school bus. But like a lot of moms, she does wonder: "What must my neighbors think of me?" Girls might find Ugg boots or cute knit hats appealing, said Kevin Nadal, an assistant professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, but "boys at this stage are dealing with developing their masculinity. So in many ways, toughing it out by not wearing warm-enough clothes may be a way for them to appear manly." Herald-Leader reporter Mary Meehan contributed to this report. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Kardashians launch clothing line at Sears in August - Sun-Sentinel (blog) Posted: 17 Jan 2011 11:44 AM PST  Khloe, Kim and Bruno Schiavi, the backer of the new Kardashian Kollection label. Keeping up with Kardashians – fashionwise – is exhausting. When do Kim, Kourtney and Khloe have time to videotape their three reality shows? The Kardashian klan has just announced they are doing a line for Sears launching in August called the Kardashian Kollection. Kool. This is in addition to the DASH stores in South Beach and L. A., the K-Dash line for QVC and Kim has a fragrance line with Sephora stores and costume jewelry with Pascal Mouawad. "Fashion is such a huge part of my life and I'm thrilled to have had the opportunity to design the Kardashian Kollection with my sisters …we worked really hard to create an incredible, price friendly collection and are so excited to see our fans' reactions to the designs," said Kim Kardashian in a press release. The girly goods will include a ready-to-wear apparel collection, handbags, lingerie, jewelry and footwear. The Kardashian Kollection will be launched with a gi-normous marketing campaign that includes a national TV and print ads as well as in-store appearances. "Because Kim, Kourt and I have such different tastes, it was really important to us to design looks for girls everywhere, no matter their signature style. We wanted to make sure the Kardashian Kollection offered must-have items for everyone across the country from the girly girls to the rocker chicks," Khloe added. Kim and Kourtney have also just completed filming for "Kourtney and Kim Take New York" which premieres Sunday January 23 at 10 p.m. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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