The Good Daughter...

There are so many articles on being a good mother online. Even when I tried to find things about daughters, I kept being redirected to posts about daughters who are their mum's protege and how mums need to make the effort to impart positively on their daughters and live the kind of life they want their daughters to emulate.

All nice and dandy...but it is also a good thing to have a a guide for daughters yes? Well, I do not know if I can come up with a 'good daughter guide sheet' but I want to share the experience that got me searching for 'good daughter' pieces in the first place. It is inspired by my conversations with my mum within the last few days. 

See my mum has an important function coming up and she has been telling all her children about it. A few days ago, she called me, and in a very serious mater-of-fact tone if voice, asked me what she should wear for this function. We talked about her budget and the colors and the style and the option of making VS buying and the shoes and the hairstyle...we were on the phone for almost 20 mins, having this discussion, like it was a matter of national security.

I then proceeded to email her pictures of a few outfits I thought would work and stuff she could make with my friend who is a designer. She called me the next day and we went through the pros and cons of each of the outfits I had sent to her and then we eventually settled for buying a dress. 

My mum went shopping, bought a dress, a pair of shoes, a purse, jewellery and different wigs. She went home, dressed up in all the different looks, got my dad to take photos of her and she emailed me these photos. With all seriousness, I went through the photos and picked the one I liked and then sent it back to her with notes on how best to style the look. She called me later that evening and was so exciting, telling me how that was the look my dad liked as well. I mentioned to her that I wasn't really feeling the shoes so I would send her images of the kind of shoes she should get and I spent the next 30 minutes or so, looking for appropriate shoe images online to send to her.

The function isn't for another few weeks but knowing that my mum is going to be looking dapper, thanks to my styling, makes me feel so good. It is an even better feeling because it wasn't one of those times when I imposed my style sense on her...she actually called for my help. 

So yeah...I think one of the major functions of a daughter is to be your mother's stylist. The one she has at her beck and call, who will treat her like a premium client and always deliver with good results. So, have you been a good daughter today?