Plaid

[Veronica]

4 out of my 16 boys asked me what plaid was today - it's in a question on their math test.

None of my girls asked.

Veronica

[Artista]

When I first started dating my husband, he swore that I made up the word "taupe" just to mess with him. Then he heard other people use it in conversation about 5 times during the days following his accusation.

Boys seem to be more concerned about learning to call their friends "stupid butt crack", (ala my 3yo nephew), than learning about plaid in shades of taupe.

[GLC1968]

I'd bet that little boys in the 70's knew the world 'plaid'.

[Blueberry]

I remember having a discussion with my SO about whether khaki was just a color, or also a style of pants....

[jessmarimba]

I think my SO learned all of his colors from paint samples. It gets pretty funny.

[Savra]

On the flip side - my ex loved plaid. Wore plaid anytime he could. I, on the other hand, had no idea what plaid was until he told me.

[zoom-zoom]

I like plaid, but I LOVE tartan!

[PinkBike]

i think it's so cute how different little boys and girls are. my sunday school kindergarten girls will come in and color, the boys head straight to the lego's to build weaponry. nature/nurture?

[lph]

pardon the digression ahead. But when I read the boys in plaid in the 70s comment I went looking for that wonderful site that is full of photos from catalogs in the 60s and 70s, plaid pant suits galore, cheesy smiles and immobile hairdos. Couldn't find it.

But! I searched for "appalling fashion" (seemed to remember it was called something like that), and came across the following gem. It even seems to be real:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1...ing-cake-groom
Ok, maybe a little surprising in an elegant wedding... but "disgusting" and makes her "question the true nature of their relationship"?? Ahahahaaaaaa... *snort* excuse me while I pick myself up off the floor...

No wonder I never married.

Ok, maybe Ann Landers is known for this sort of comment and I'm the only one who finds it hilarious.

[Crankin]

I love plaid. I still had all of the tartan kilts from my early teens when I was first married and they actually fit me.
LPH, I guess some couples go overboard with the cake smooshing. DH and i had a very small wedding, celebrated afterwards with dinner in a restaurant. We "fed" each other the piece of cake, with no smearing. It was just one bite.
DS and his wife had the "big" i.e. kind of ridiculous reception last June, after being married for 9 months. They went all out with the cake thing. They were, ah, sucking face, eating the cake off of the other one's face. Everyone else thought it was hysterical, DH and I, along with all 8 of the other staid New Englanders who were there felt very uncomfortable.

[lph]

well, I'm not really one for messy gags and would probably punch my dh if he tried anything like it , but I just found it hysterical how the bride and groom were obviously happy, letting off steam and being silly or playful or something of the sort, and someone who didn't know them and hadn't even been there was shocked, distressed and so judgmental...

[zoom-zoom]

i think it's so cute how different little boys and girls are. my sunday school kindergarten girls will come in and color, the boys head straight to the lego's to build weaponry. nature/nurture?

Before I became a mom I would have said mostly nurture...now that I have a 10 year old I'd say 80% nature, 20% nurture. Before our son was born we didn't find out his sex...and bought lots of gender-neutral toys and clothes. As a little guy we bought him lots of stuffed toys, a few dolls, blocks, and cars and his room was decorated with a bright tropical fish motif.

Before he could talk he would make motor noises and point and babble at motorcycles. When he was about 18 months my brother bought him his first Matchbox/Hotwheels car...and it was all over. He STILL has to have a car or two with him wherever we go. He is also totally LEGO-obsessed (just like his dad). When he draws photos they are always detailed drawings of dream cars.

He still loves kittens (his first word was "geedle," which we figured-out was "kitty"), flowers, and butterflies, but not in any creative, imaginative sense. When he wakes from a dream it's invariably about cars, explosions, and robots.

[sfa]

And how many of those boys were wearing plaid at the time?

Seems to be a popular style with the boys these days (at least around here)--plaid shorts and striped (seriously, I'm not making this up) shirts. Saw it first in the elementary school and thought "there's a kid whose mother lets him dress himself." Then I started noticing it all over the place on the college campus where I work. When you see college guys dressing a particular way, you know it's a style and not a mistake!

[Veronica]

Our kids wear uniforms - so none of them were wearing plaid. Although one of my boys, who didn't ask, has a plaid backpack.

Veronica

[OakLeaf]

Oh yeah. I started seeing plaid board shorts on the kids maybe 2-3 years ago. Maybe the fad is already over and that's why your kids don't know the word!