Do you have princess costumes all over your house too???

[MouseLover]

My daughter loves to dress up, especially like a Disney princess or character.

Grandma has been commissioned to make yet another dress -- this time it is Snow White. The previous costume was Belle's gown. My DD (age 7) wore Belle's gown to CRT in March.

Grandma also has made Alice and Ariel costumes. Once Snow White is finished, Aurora is next in line.

DD has a Cinderella ball gown from TDS. She got it when she was 4, complete with accessories. When she got that gown it touched the ground and now it stops at her knees. She wore that dress a while each day, every day, for two years. She still wears it at least 2x a week (can barely get it on.) This once-lovely ball gown now looks like a tattered floor-scrubbing dress, but I guess it's still beautiful in the eyes of my child.

There are numerous other costumes at our house. We have a costume drawer and a costume trunk, but usually costumes and their accessories can be found throughout my daughter's room, and often the rest of the house as well. You always have to be on the lookout for wands, crowns, pirate hooks, etc.

I just wondered how many of you have this same dilemma at your homes. If only they had these things when I was a kid.....

 

[gritzel4]

My DD4 loves her princess dresses. I hung a peg board rack in her room and she has to hang the dresses up when she is done. All the accessories must be put away in a drawer. Anything left laying around is Mommy's to wear for a week. Needless to say she cleans up or I look silly.

 

[frstimer128]

I can definately say that my house is never at a loss for costumes!! lol

When my daughter Tori dresses up as one of the princesses, she tells us that "Tori melted. I am Snow White (or whoever)" This can go on for HOURS! We love it when Cinderella drops by. The house gets really clean!

 

[sarahsmom73]

YES! YES! YES!!! WE just bought her a new Cinderella costume at TDS in Ottawa Canada this week, but are saving it for Halloween! (If I can make it that long) I'd much rather have her enthralled with the princesses!

 

[DisneyMomx7]

YES! 5 year old DD was born to be a princess! Right now we have Snow White, Ariel Princess Bride, Aurora and Tinkerbelle. We leave in 5 days and are due to get yet another Princess dress for both her and her sister (7). 7 year old DD enjoys the Princess thing at Disney but at home she rarely dresses up and let's her sister have her costume. We also have a beautiful GLinda (Wizard of Oz) dress from the Looney Toons Store that used to be open. I wish we had a grandma that sewed!

 

[parmtoo]

We did, but now DDs ar 14 and 16............enjoy it, you'll miss it when they are older.

 

[ErinInCT]

DD4 is soooooo in to dressing up. Dh hung up a hanging unit (shelving with pole) for her to hang all of the clothes from & he put up a giant mirror. She has a huge basket of shoes & a chest of accessories. DD is always in a state of undress. I swear she changes outfits 5 times a day!!! She has her Cinderella costume from last year's Halloween & an Ariel bride dress. All the others are just dress up dresses (you know, the sequined kind, or ballet kind or the kind that make her look like a streetwalker!). Now she has gotten in to drawing dresses & decorating them! I think she'll be a fashion designer when she grows up - you should see the creations she makes on paper & the outfits she comes up with!! I can't wait to see her face when she gets to MK & sees the real princesses!!!

 

[CEDmom]

DD has 2 Tinker Bell costumes along with a wand for each one. She also has a Cinderella costume I made her for last Halloween and a wand for that. This year she wants to be Sleeping Beauty so I'll be getting started on that costume pretty soon. The store bought ones don't fit her well and I really enjoy making things so it's fun. However, it does take up a lot of room and the things do get scattered around. However, I love when DD plays make believe .

 

[jbwolffiv]

OUr DD3 loves to wear her dresses. She had Cinderella on today and was dancing to her Princess music. She has on old Snow White too. She want to get the Ariel one from TDS for Halloween this year, but since it is only July I think she may change her mind.

 

[poohkinandpiglet]

My DD (age 3) has costumes all over the house. She had her 3rd birthday last Saturday and has been dressed up as Aurora every since.

DS' (age 4) favorite costume right now is surgeon scrub pants, pirate shirt and a cowboy hat. He says "I'm a cowboy pirate doctor". He's currently trying to talk his Mimi into sewing a Mickey Mouse costume.

 

[kelscross]

My girls love to dress up. They have alot of different outfits but their favorites is the Sleeping Beauty and Snow White one they got for xmas. I think I'm going to have to invest in another Snow White as they usually fight over that one.

I wish I could sew I would make tons, and tons.

Their new thing lately is to play "Tarzan" so I have little ones stripped down to their panties acting like monkeys all day!

 

[mamalle]

My dd dresses up on a daily basis here. she has princess aurora, snow white, cinderella, ariel, jasmine, shanti and all the shoes, crowns, jewerly,wands to go along with her costumes. she keeps her dresses hung up in the closet with a seperate bag for her shoes and her jewelry. we just bought her the princess ariel bride costume this past trip and she wont take it off. I swear we have gotten our moneys worth out of all of them. she is so cute to watch. They only thing I have to complain about is the fake hair- it gets all tangled up and I cant get it brushed out without taking half the hair with me!

 

[Naisy68]

I had to hide my DDs little Snow White costume because I was afraid that she would rip it before our upcoming trip. We might buy her another one on our trip and then we will let her play with them. I have no doubt that she will want to wear them to daycare and Walmart and everywhere else we go. That's ok though, other people will get a kick out of it I think.
--Renee

 

[Sandy Feet]

DD went to visit Grandpa dressed as Jasmine. We did get a couple of looks on the street, but Grandpa thought it very amusing! It's so hot here, that she only wears the costumes for a little while though, she says they are itchy if she doesn't wear a little camisole underneath.

I'm still debating whether to take a costume for our CRT breakfast, DD doesn't know you can do that. Can they wear ANY princess costume?

 

[MouseLover]

You can wear any costume you choose to CRT. My DD would have loved to wear her Cinderella dress, but it's so tattered it doesn't look much like a beautiful ball gown any more. She wore her Belle gown. Belle was there but she was dressed in her work dress that day. We saw other girls dressed as Cinderella, Aurora, and Tinkerbell.

Definitely allow your child to dress up for CRT. It was somewhat of a pain to go change & store the gown in a locker, but it was worth it. DD begged to wear her Cinderella gown to Disney on Ice a couple of years ago, and I didn't let her. There were several girls there with their costums on, so she was really steamed at me. I won't make that mistake again!!

Although it is a mess in my house, and never seems to stay in the designated drawers, trunks, etc. for long, I truly enjoy watching her dress up and play. She wants to grow up and become a princess, live in a castle, and have balls every night. What dreams......

 

[Sandy Feet]

MouseLover,

Thanks for your reply. I can't wait to get home and dig thru DD's dress-up clothes with her to see what she wants to wear. You're only a little girl once. Well, twice if you count re-living it thru your daughter!

 

[lvp49]

Some days she never gets dressed in real clothes at all. (only when we don't go out all day)

 

[korlows]

snow white
tinkerbell
sleeping beauty
cinderella
ariel
mulan
belle
minnie mouse (she, age 4, wears to daycare all the time as a real dress! W/the Minnie shoes.)
and countless other dressy dresses, mirrors, wands (the magic sort,) shoes, purses and crowns!

You can take that as a yes!

I have an old Huge hamper we are now using to store them in. Her dressup trunk that was too small now sits nexxt to the hamper and houses shoes and misc. princess stuff!

 

[MinnieGi]

Oh Yes! We can also identify with everyone's collection of princess costumes here at our house too!

She has Belle, Tinkerbelle, Cinderella, TDS store costumes all with wands, shoes, and crowns. Plus she has the dress-up TDS costumes of Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Jasmine & Arial and all thier wigs and shoes. She also has a Pocahontas and Esmerelda costume along with other dress-up clothes, shoes, and purses. She dresses-up everyday and has several little friends who are into the same type of play and love to come over and play dress-up.

 

[Karibeth19]

Originally posted by lvp49
Some days she never gets dressed in real clothes at all. (only when we don't go out all day)

My DD7 did that all summer!! Now that school has started, she starts undressing as soon as she hits the front door (her shoes usually come off as soon as she steps off the bus!), and within two minutes she's in a princess costume, plopped on the sofa watching Kim Possible. She has a huge collection; 2 Cinderella (1 from WDW and the deluxe one from TDS), Aurora, Ariel, Tinkerbell, Belle, Jasmine, Minnie, and Snow White. Now she's having a hard time deciding which costume she wants from TDS for Halloween, Kim Possible or Mulan. I'm such a sucker, and she looks so cute in them, I'll probably give in and get her both. But, you know, since she plays in them all the time, I really don't mind. I'd rather buy her costumes than toys that will just sit in her closet!