Glug — by Guest Mom Liz Fuller

In terms of birth order, I am the younger of two girls. This means that I basically had hand-me-down clothing most of my childhood. I honestly didn’t pay any attention to what other people were wearing in comparison to me until Jr. High. That’s when I knew I needed to take action on my worn-out, dated look.

My sister was in High School and took to shopping at Contempo Casuals and Express, clothing that she dry cleaned and never got passed down into my hands. No big deal. She left for school earlier than I did each morning. This meant I was able to institute a stealthy operation of wardrobe stealing, I mean borrowing! Each day I did a quick switch-a-roo when I got home before her in the afternoon. This then carried on into my High School years while she began college and all was going smoothly. That is, until we both arrived home from our respective dates one evening while I was wearing her clothing. My date must have thought it odd how quickly I ran out of his car and up to the front door while she was giving her date a goodbye kiss. That was a close one!

I decided that when I have my own children, I want them to have their own fresh clothing. Nothing expensive, just a basic collection of cool colors that mix and match well and aren’t old and faded.

For each transition to a new size for my son, I tend to have a fancy (i.e. Christmas) outfit and a really cool outfit I love. The rest is whatever I can pull together from H&M, Old Navy, Target, and the sale rack at Baby Gap.

Then I fell in love with Glug Baby, something that is not necessarily in the price range I prefer for my son’s t-shirts, however, sometimes exceptions need to be made.