The Maxwell little girls question.

[tabitha2]

At what age do you think will Abbey,Bethany and the rest of the Max daughters start to where the plain long dresses of the adults and also the long unstyled hair?-at the moment they dress pretty cute not much different from regular little girls.

[gardenvarietycitizen]

Abby already seems to wear longer skirts (and of course she's never seen in pants, is she?). I think on tiny kids, the clothes are small enough that the long skirts on their jumpers don't seem like endless yards of cloth and so it's just not quite so jarring.

Plus even on secular kids, if they wear a lot of hand-me-downs (probably not the Maxwell niece case) you can see some pretty long skirts on jumpers just because skirts are forgiving, so you buy the thing long and then it lasts a few years. So it just doesn't stand out quite as much in a crowd, even if they're already doing it.

I find it interesting though that they're happy to go bare-legged under their skirts. That seems to be a Christian fundie thing, they'll insist on the long long skirts but then be fine wearing flip flops or even going barefoot, and they wear quite short sleeves too - even the older Maxwell women in the summer will have not only short sleeves but even those clingy really short sleeves that just go a bit over the shoulder and flare.

If you look at little fundie Jewish girls, many of them start covering up at age three, but part of it is wearing tights and long (at least 3/4 length) sleeves, too.

[Feberin]

Melanie seems to dress more modern and her hair isn't as long as the Maxwell sister so I would assume her daughters will remain dressed similar to her. We won't see them in jeans with pixie cuts but they will probably have hair that is more stylish and more long skirts the frumpers as they get older.

[tabitha2]

We'll see.She'll do what Nathan wants and he'll do what Steve wants.

[YPestis]

I actually think the Maxwell little girls are being brought up more moderately than the other Maxwell kids. They dress more stylishly. Melenie's family attends church. Melenie herself dresses in more "mainstream" fundiewear. I'm sure they will homeschool, only allow dresses etc but they'll probably be more Duggar fundie than crazy Maxwell fundie.

[gardenvarietycitizen]

I actually think the Maxwell little girls are being brought up more moderately than the other Maxwell kids. They dress more stylishly. Melenie's family attends church. Melenie herself dresses in more "mainstream" fundiewear. I'm sure they will homeschool, only allow dresses etc but they'll probably be more Duggar fundie than crazy Maxwell fundie.

Agreed. They definitely seem less closed off, and Melanie seems a bit more "with it." I wonder if they consume outside news? Do they take a paper?

I'm also curious where they were when the rest of the Merry Maxwells were having the Xmas night gathering.

[kpmom]

I'm also curious where they were when the rest of the Merry Maxwells were having the Xmas night gathering.

In either a blog post or a Corner, they mentioned they do Christmas Eve with Nathan and Melanie so that she and Nathan (and arrows) can spend Christmas day with her family. Guess NR-Anna has to spend both days with the Maxwells, poor kid. Maybe next year they can visit her family.

ETA: I'll give the Maxwells a tiny bit of credit for celebrating Christmas at all (some fundies don't), and actually decorating their house (no tree of course), and even wrapping their presents in festive paper (I noticed one of their gifts was wrapped in "Season's Greetings" paper. Guess they're not too into the war on Christmas crap).

[YPestis]

ETA: I'll give the Maxwells a tiny bit of credit for celebrating Christmas at all (some fundies don't), and actually decorating their house (no tree of course), and even wrapping their presents in festive paper (I noticed one of their gifts was wrapped in "Season's Greetings" paper. Guess they're not too into the war on Christmas crap).

The Maxwells also don't pay attention to news. I wonder how much of this behavior is because they are so out of the loop.