Ok, my daughter is 12, ADD and we are testing for Aspergers so she has always marched to her own drummer. She is mostly a tom boy, I let her wear what she wants, etc. Her latest thing is she has been wearing her Croc boots with her shorts to school...ok, no biggie, I pick my battles.
Here's my question. About 8 months ago, she started wearing a tail pinned to her waistband. Just around the house and outside when she was playing with the neighbors. No big deal, I thought this was just part of her quirky personality. Again, I have asked her if she gets made fun of, she doesn't. She doesn't "act" like an animal or anything, literally just wore the tail! She did it for about a month or so, even one of her friends would come over with her tail and they would wear them. They haven't done it for several months now.
Sooooo, coming home the other day...guess what I see...2 girls walking down by the shopping center with TAILS hanging from under their tee shirts and over their shorts. They were tween, early teens.
So I'm wondering if your kids do this, have done it, and if so why? My daughter has just said she did because she wanted to. LOL! Just wondering if anyone has experience with this or has seen any kids out and about wearing tails. Thanks mamas and papas!
I don't know what they are called, but she also wore a "marvin" (the martian on looney tunes) hat, the fuzzy ones that has those things that hang down over your ears. She wore that every single day for months and months. And then last winter those animal fuzzy snow hats came out and she wore that every day forever, and we live in AZ...so I was just wondering if this was something she was just doing or if she got it somewhere. She is getting more into music so maybe she has seen it on MTV or something. Thanks everyone!!! I love her just the way she is. =)
I have one.
I got it at the Celtic Faire a few years ago.
I wear in for St Paddys Day and for Clamper functions when I go with my husband.
It always gets a LOT of attention.
Mine is a fox tail looking thing, it's cute.
lol! My 7 year old daughter just did this last week playing outside. I'm glad she is not the only one. She said she is just playing
there was a kid on american idol that wore one last year.
apparently it's a "thing".
thank goodness mine is only 5!!! lol...
there will be some other dumb "thing" in 10 years and i'll be on here totally and utterly confused lol...
Hmmm, I just asked my daughter, 15. She says she has not seen kids wearing them, however, the lead singer of her fave band wears one, it's Christopher Drew, the band is Never Shout Never.
She says it's a super 'scene' kid thing to wear. Her brothers tease her about being 'scene' but she insists she's not. Lol.
I mean, it doesn't MEAN anything horrible, if that's what your concern is.
:)
Ok, our daughter is about to graduate from college 21 yrs old.
Back when she was in 6th grade.. There were girls that wore tails. One wore on all the way through high school.. So that was 10 years ago?
That girl promised her mother she would not wear the tail to college.
I just asked my 10 year old daughter and she said "what are you talking about no I never saw anyone wearing a tail"
My daughter is 9 and has no idea about wearing tails. I don't see any girls wearing that in my city... for now.
LOL
Me: when I was a Teen I had a mohawk. Wore safety pins in my clothes. had colored hair and fingernails. Wore jeans with holes in it.
My parents, did not flinch at all. I was a good kid other than my dress style. Came home on time, did my school work, had nice friends.
If I had added a tail... well, they probably would not have flinched either.
I'm glad my daughter is not, for now, into those things.
LOL
My step daughter is 13 and wears some of the silliest outfits. If we all look back to when we were that age we also wore some silly things (it doesn’t matter what decade you grew up in, LOL). I also figure she has to walk around that way not me.
Well mine is a bit young, but I was walking through the University district the other day and had to try very hard not to point and laugh out loud at the teens running around with tails and some also had "ears". Very funny. But yes, it appears to be an "in" thing to do: http://www.thedailychow.com/2009/12/louis-vuitton-fox-fur...
Oh lord
What the heck?
Ever since I was little I've liked the idea of having a tail. I loved it if a costume I was wearing for Halloween or something had a tail with it. I would have worn a tail even if I wasn't wearing a costume, but I know my big brother would have teased me endlessly. I picked my battles with him, let me tell ya! It is playful and fun. I like tails, we see how animals use them and they are pretty nifty.
...And now everyone thinks I'm weird. LOL!!!
A popular contestant from American Idol last year wore a fuzzy tail or tails made out of fabric. He has a lot of personal challenges in his life due to his turrets syndrome and ADD, which many fans of the show connected with. He didn't win the whole thing but made it quite far. He performed again this season with his new single and he was wearing a tail. That was his signature style on the show. Possibly it has caught on as a trend?
I see a lot of people wearing them when we go to the Renaissance festival, but I haven't yet seen any outside of there.
I went to a Japanese festival here & wearing tails, ears, etc. was very popular with the anime crowd.
hee! no, but now i want one!
:D
khairete
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I saw a teen girl wearing a fox tail like that at the movie theater a couple weeks ago. My initial reaction... 'WEIRDO'! But being weird isn't always bad:)
Where I go to college some of the kids do that. They're all into anime.
My kids don't do it.
I went out to AZ a few years back to visit a friend, while there we went to that really big gem/mineral show in Tucson and there were a TON of kids wearing the tails. We'd never seen it before and at first my daughter thought all the kids in AZ were a little "off"...by the end of the show, she was asking if she could have one!
