What to wear
Comfortable, unfussy, in colours that are not the same as the location. Avoid brand-new shoes and stiff collars. One spare outfit, because whatever…
In short: Comfortable, unfussy, in colours that are not the same as the location. Avoid brand-new shoes and stiff collars. One spare outfit, because whatever produces the best photographs usually also produces mud.
Colour. Not the same as the location — a green coat in a park, beige in sand. One clear colour makes a small figure read in a wide frame.
Fabric. Soft, washable and already familiar. Anything scratchy is a countdown to the end of the session.
Footwear. Whatever they run in. Shoes appear in most full-length frames and children will not stay still in stiff ones.
The thing that ruins frames. A brand-new outfit kept clean. The instruction not to get dirty is visible in a child's posture in every single frame afterwards.
Bring a second set. Not for styling variety but for the puddle. The frames worth having usually arrive about ten minutes after a child stops being careful, and the session continues only if there is something dry to change into.