Baby Tights are Hard to Come By | How Much Did I Spend Last Week? Dec 20-26, 2021

There are certain things in life one could never foresee. I’m not even talking about the whole move to America, marriage to an American, purchase of a house in the Midwest… although that surely counts. I am, instead, talking about the hours of my life lost on my quest to find baby tights for, er, my baby.

My baby is incapable of keeping his socks on. I consider this a personal failure of his (the first of many, I’m sure). No sooner have I tucked his little socks in under his little trousers, than he has shoved one – always only one! – sock off and it has disappeared God knows where. (Have you seen baby socks lately? Tiny. Like socks for Borrowers.)

Of course, there is a solution to this problem: baby tights! However, it would seem that baby tights are largely considered items for baby girls (why?! Who cares? My baby boy has no clue where his own nose is; he is not concerned with issues of gendered clothing, nor should he be), not to mention the fact that loads of them are boring.

Anyway: I found some cute ones, after a long search, and promptly spent £200 on the site just to show how grateful I was for their having created the blasted tights in the first place. Motherhood is thrilling, have I mentioned that?