caving in to peer pressure
when Aprilia started Brownies, she looked at all the options and decided what she liked. She chose the smart-looking sash for putting her badges on rather than the more functional bodywarmer (or "gilet" as they insist on calling it) which is the other option for putting them on - you aren’t supposed to sew them on any other bits of uniform. Her choice, not swayed by me cos actually I had no preference over "smart" vs "functional" but aparently she is deeply offended by randomly arranged badges on the gilets as displayed by most of the girls in her pack!!!! (somewhat rich really coming from the girl wtih the randomly arranged bedroom but there you go!)
However, now she has 6 interest badges it’s occured to her that you can only fit about 14 onto a sash before it’s full, front and back! Which, considering she is on a mission to get the lot (eep!), is a bit of a problem 
Now obviously you can then start hanging them over the edges of the sash for a serated effect but that then makes things like special badges hard to jigsaw in. And then, horror of horrors, she found out taht she can’t take the sash to Brownie Camp. So now we have the gilet after all and I’ve got some sewing to do!
Ah, this is useful information for the mother of a soon-to-be Brownie!
Comment by Joanna — July 27, 2008 @ 6:03 pm
It’s worth the money Jo, and Jade will fit into one of the smaller (and thus cheaper) sizes. Aprilia was only one of 2 Brownies who actually wore a sash at her unit, and now we’ve tried it I can quite see why!
Comment by Administrator — July 27, 2008 @ 8:18 pm