Jessica Alba’s Kids Share Clothes; The Internet Implodes

11/27/2012 12:00 pm by

Jessica Alba took a dress that her elder daughter Honor Warren wore and put it on her younger daughter, Haven.  (See it here.)

I’ll give you a second to process this.  Hand me downs!?  WHAT!  Sacrilege.

In actuality people were like, “Wow.  That Jessica Alba is just like us.”

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Jessica, too, is seemingly addicted to Instagram.

I like Jessica Alba.  You know, as much as you can like a person you’ve never met.  She seems to Mom pretty well, and started an eco-friendly line of baby goods, which makes me think that she cares about stuff like that.  She could have started a line of bedazzled onesies or – I don’t know – baby bottles that hum One Direction tunes, but instead she went another route, and I have no problem publicly golf clapping that.  (clap, clap)

Here’s what makes me squirmy: DOES THIS MEAN OTHER CELEBRITIES DON’T DO THIS?

Other celebrities don’t say, “Hey, look!  Squirrel outgrew this dress and it’s in perfect condition.  Paparazzi be damned, I’ll put this on my younger daughter, Corkboard.”  (I don’t know any kids named Squirrel or Corkboard, and I’m definitely not making fun of any celebrity names, because.. let’s be honest.. my eldest daughter’s name is Remmy, which is the same name as the chef mouse in Ratatouille, so…no judging from me.)

I get the celebrity lifestyle.  Go ahead pour out that Cristal and drive around in the other-other Benz (Kanye, I’m looking at you), but for the love of all things holy, hand down that outfit, would you?

I’m not exempt from feeling weird about recycling an outfit.  If I wear a dress to a wedding, I fight feelings of apprehension about wearing it to the next wedding.  Why?  FACEBOOK.  All of the photos are on Facebook, and I shouldn’t care that I’m tagged in a photo wearing a dress while doing the Roger Rabbit on the dance floor and then again at another wedding looking haughty while a bride shoves a slice of cake into a groom’s face, but I do.  Oh, I do.

And stop yourself  before you say “Oh, just change up the accessories!”  Sorry, Cosmo, it fools no one.

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THAT’S LIKE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT OUTFIT; YER A WIZARD, HARRY!

Okay, that weirdness aside, the take-away you should be getting is not that I’m vain, but that outfit recycling and hand-me-downs are all good things, and Jessica Alba should not be a freakin’ anomaly in all of this.  (Get down, J.A., go ahead, get down.)

I have three (3) daughters, and hand-me-downs are just how we do.  Remmy gets a shirt, then Sophie gets that shirt, then Minnie gets that shirt.  (See?  I told you my kids’ names were weird.) And I hope one day that we’re all the same size so my wardrobe quadruples.

JK, but seriously, do you  have outfit-recycling angst?  Has Facebook ruined your life in this way?

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Don't be fooled by Roo Ciambriello's last name.  0% Italian, she's half white girl, half Pacific Islander, living in the mean streets of suburban Connecticut.  Roo spends her time listening to hip hop and Tweeting about her 90s nostalgia at @roociambriello.  She puts the 'girl' in NiceGirlNotes, a fun storytelling blog where she starts fights with cat lovers and Cheetos haters.  WE RIDE AT DAWN.

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  • http://twitter.com/Avath Avath

    I don’t know. My Facebook is filled with pictures of my cats. I am *that* guy. I am sorry.

    • frogprof

      The question is, do you recycle your CATS’ outfits. If not, THEN you can be sorry.

      • http://twitter.com/Avath Avath

        Mostly my cars are naked. Only one photo has my cat, James, dressed up in a little girl’s dress. Maybe I should become *THAT OTHER GUY* and start taking my cats fur and CRAFT WITH THEM.

    • Roo Ciambriello

      But do you wear the same cat for every special occasion?

      • Roo Ciambriello

        I have no idea what happened to my avatar. THAT IS NOT ME.

        • Roo Ciambriello

          NEITHER IS THAT!

  • http://www.facebook.com/traceygaughranperez Tracey Gaughran-Perez

    Seriously am not getting why this is a big deal at all (in either the “how dare she!” OR “JUST LIKE US OMG!” capacity. To me it seems: uhh… so what?). Also, who the hell spends so much time comparing celebrity kid’s clothing choices that they even noticed this?

    • Roo Ciambriello

      Honestly, I’d expect the same response if Jessica Alba reused disposable diapers as hats or something.

  • http://swanfeet.wordpress.com/ ladyphlogiston

    Well, I grew up with hand-me-downs (I’m the oldest, but we got stuff from other families) and my week-old daughter is currently in her sister’s stuff, so it is normal. On the other hand, my husband has been getting annoyed about the storage space and lack of organization, and Flylady says hand-me-downs are for the Born Organized, so at some point we may end up giving away or goodwill-ing a lot of it and starting fresh. We will see.

    • Roo Ciambriello

      I honestly sort of agree with that. I have a really hard time organizing the girls’ clothes. Thinking about keeping a few outfits and giving away the rest, and revisiting what to do when they grow to the next stage. The storage/sorting is such a headache!

      • http://swanfeet.wordpress.com/ ladyphlogiston

        It’s a huge headache, and it seems like there’s better uses for my time and energy. (Opportunity cost is the technical term, apparently.) I know the clothes are being used by someone, and since I buy from secondhand and thrift stores a lot the money isn’t as much as it might be. Not free, obviously, but doable.

  • SuzyQuzey

    Kids share clothes? FILM AT ELEVEN!

    • http://www.facebook.com/traceygaughranperez Tracey Gaughran-Perez

      SNORT!

    • Roo Ciambriello

      Hahahahahaha

  • Tasterspoon

    Speaking as a 39 year old who has no compunction about wearing clothes I had in high school (sweaters, not stirrup pants), even I have been self-conscious about recycling dresses for special occasions, and totally because of FB. I wore one dress to multiple weddings and a Christmas party, another to multiple weddings and both my children’s christenings, and all the photos are out there in public. But it occurs to me that it wouldn’t have bothered me if any of MY wedding guests wore an old dress, so why would it bother them? (I understood that the white wedding dress came about because in what, the Victorian era?, a person’s nicest dress was white and one would simply wear one’s nicest dress to one’s wedding…it’s only recently that the wedding dress became a once-only dress. I fully intend to re-wear mine if I ever have a fancy-enough occasion to do so.)

    • http://swanfeet.wordpress.com/ ladyphlogiston

      A friend of mine went to a pricey high school where the girls traditionally bought wedding dresses to wear for graduation. Her parents only consented because she swore up and down she’d wear it again for her wedding. She got married a few years ago; I should check facebook and see if I can figure out whether she actually did so.

    • Roo Ciambriello

      All of this probably doesn’t apply to me since I no longer fit into my wedding dress. o_O But you should re-wear yours!! :)

  • Tyskkvinna

    I remember my sister *hating* getting hand-me-downs because her opinion on clothes was radically different from my own.. :)

    • Roo Ciambriello

      Ahhh, bummer. Come on, older sis, get it together.