Schenectady, NY–A local preschool has been temporarily shuttered after a group of two- and three-year-olds staged a walk out when a favorite teacher arrived at school wearing a belted nautical romper from Anthropologie.Reports from the scene are hazy, but a passing custodian says he heard Franz Liebkind, 28 months, ask Mona Yates, 28 years, if she “still peed in a diaper.” When Ms. Yates answered in the negative, Mr. Liebkind and his diminutive classmates set down their graham crackers and attempted to leave the building, only to be distracted moments later by a roll of tin foil that had been left outside a nearby supply closet.The toddlers had trouble articulating their complaint until Tallulah Weld, 3, whose mother has been quizzing her on SAT flashcards “since I’m six months old,” spoke up.“Rompers are baby clothes,” Ms. Weld said quietly while studying a Dora the Explorer Band-Aid on her knee. “If we can’t wear cinched blazers and ridiculous trompe l’oeil heels then they can’t wear what was clearly designed for us.”Ms. Weld also announced that she is championing her cause through her Facebook page, which her parents set up for her in utero. After just a few days, “Take Back The Romper” reportedly has active members in Omaha, San Diego, and Bangor, Maine, with a possible guerilla faction operating out of a playgroup in Arlington, VA, where just yesterday a mother discovered her son and his friends finger-painting on a silk crepe halter jumpsuit she’d bought at Saks in an attempt “to look more like Bianca Jagger.”
As yet, no charges have been brought against Ms. Yates in what locals have taken to calling “Rompergate,” but law enforcement officials have privately counseled her to avoid one-piece garments until the situation can be contained.
“Look,” said Ms. Yates, sighing wearily, when reached at home. “Have you ever shopped at Anthropologie? This thing cost more than my mattress. I’ll wear it if I feel like it and the half-pints can just deal. They can deal or they can have a visit from Mr. Benadryl.”
“Don’t print that,” she added.
That Tallulah Weld kid is obviously one of those creepy “Your Baby Can Read” graduates. *shudder*
I can’t take my eyes off of the chick in the romper in the tower ad next to this article. There’s something so wrong and hot about it.
Miss Mona will be happy to know Adult Rompers at Target were on the markdown rack today – $5.48 from $21.99. I guess most of the world agrees with the toddlers!