i can't quite figure out the reason for it, but there seems to be a serious proliferation of small children wearing superhero capes out in public. take, for example, my shopping trip today. i went to 2 different shopping centers and saw one child at each one wearing one of these aforementioned capes. the first one was in dollar tree (a great place to buy wrapping paper, by the way.) and he was probably about 6 years old. his mom, who didn't look much older than me, was buying him some plastic police toy set. (neon orange gun, plastic handcuffs, really hot kid-sized plastic aviator sunglasses...) actually she was buying two of them, identical to each other, because, "i don't want you arguing over them." (to the cashier, "the way it is in my house...") his cape was clearly store-bought... not a towel or blanket tied around his neck as i remember any superhero cape from back in the late 80s... it was silver and appeared to be fastened by velcro via a small silver strip across his shoulders and chest. he had on brown cowboy boots, but otherwise his outfit was pretty normal.
the second kid (about 4 years old) was in line to see santa at the mall. he was a little more done-up, in that the shirt he was wearing also had a big superhero-esque star on the front, and he had on red pants to match his shiny red cape. again, a store-bought garment of the same variety. man, what is that kid going to ask santa for? what more do you need than a shiny red superhero outfit that mom lets you wear to the mall?!
Posted at 4:00 PM | Comments (2)
i loved those capes. i have pictures in a superman pj with the velco detachable cape. i was thinking about that recently actually.
By , at 1:27 AM
think it would still fit? :)
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