Mallory Pike: “You Look Like a Valentine”
“. . . I finally decided on my red jumper that said Mallory across the front, a short-sleeved white blouse, and white tights with little red hearts all over them.
” ‘You look like a Valentine, Vanessa told me, but I didn’t care.
“I put on my penny loafers” (p. 11, BSC #14: Hello, Mallory).
Mallory’s outfit for the first Baby-sitters Club meeting she attends, when she decides that she can’t look the way thirteen-year-olds do when they get dressed up, but she can look nice anyway. I also owned white tights with little red hearts on them at the time this book was published, but I was younger than Mallory, so it’s less embarrassing. (I also had a pair with little pink hearts and a pair with little baby blue hearts!)
I chose to recreate a red outfit in honour of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party winning a majority government in the Canadian federal election. (That’s why I added the maple leaf, too.) The BSC members may be unlikely to care about Canadian politics, but I think they’d sit up and take notice that the Prime Minister-designate is hot enough for Stacey to show an interest in foreign affairs, so to speak, and for Kristy to perhaps pursue a second Canadian boyfriend. . .
Justin Trudeau
Yes, this man is a world leader.