The Bonnet Cam Goes Live at Last
Last spring, my editor Melanie handed me a shopping bag filled with the 1890s clothes Bloomsbury bought for the LITTLE BLOG cover shoot. She thought I should wear them to readings.
I felt so red and prickly at the very idea of dressing up in the clothes (to paraphrase David Sedaris’ observations of people dressed up on the street in costumes handing out flyers to sell thing: “I just hope I never get what he has.) I had the idea of challenging readers to put the bonnet on. Go ahead, I said. You too can understand how horrible it was for Gen to get forced to wear this by her mom.
I took hundreds of photos. Then, with the help of my lawyer husband I realized I had to get WAIVERS to put kids’ images online. So here’s a legal sampling. Enjoy!