My Princess Leia has pig-tails! Her mother ever-so-kindly sent through a picture on her 'smart' phone of Princess Leia with two tiny but obvious pig-tails. Her mom said she thought they looked a bit like antennae but PL's debut into the world of hair is a day to remember.
The picture stole our hearts and made us even more attuned to the wiles of little girls that we saw at the street festival today. Everywhere we looked, there seemed to be a little girl, somewhere between the ages of one and two, sporting her own miniature version of 'pig-tails'. It was fascinating to see how the person who prepared the tresses of these cuties sought individuality of presentation. We saw bows, yarn, ribbon, cloth strips, barrettes, hair pins, and other peculiar-looking hair decorations. Several of the little girls had wiggly, jiggly things in their tiny pig-tails that really did look like antennae. One child obviously did not like her mother's choice of hair decor and kept tugging at each pig-tail, only to have her mother swat away the child's hand. The child appeared to be very persistent in her dislike and I would have loved to 'spot' the mother/child duo throughout the day to see who won the hair battle.
Rodgers and Hammerstein got it right in the hit song "There Is Nothing Like A Dame" from their musical, "South Pacific". There is nothing like a dame.....a little dame, to be exact. Or, Maurice Chevalier who sang, "Thank Heaven For Little Girls". Little girls have an adorability (my word) that is irresistible to young and old alike, but especially to the fathers of those little girls. Okay - fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, neighbors, little old ladies in the grocery store.....etc. etc. etc.
"Who?", I ask, "Who?" can resist a little girl in pig-tails?
Not I.
Ancora imparo
