OK, let's see. The Bloomies. *cracking my knuckles here, for extreme memory-yanking and typing at the same time*
JonBenet was found in panties that were way too big for her. They were flowered panties called "Bloomies" from Bloomingdale's and they came in little plastic reusable zippered "tote" packages of 7, with the days of the week on them, written in script on the waistbands.
Patsy and JonBenet and some of Patsy's friends had gone Christmas shopping sometime in November in New York City. They went to FAO Schwarz, of course. They went to Bloomingdale's and I'm not sure where else. It's hard to remember - I *think* this was the trip when a chauffeur named Raoul took them all around to the stores.
Anyway, either Patsy bought the packages of Bloomies for JonBenet or JonBenet specifically asked for them while eyeing the display. Then one or the other of them suggested they'd make a cute NYC Xmas present for JonBenet's cousin in Atlanta, the daughter of Patsy's sister Polly and her husband Grant. (Can't think of the little girl's name.)
So, at least two packages of different sized Bloomies were bought. The cousin was considerably older than JonBenet with a larger Bloomies-appropriate body part. (Evidently, a bigger butt. I guess she's an adult now and I can say that!)
When they got them home, the cousin's package was put away for Christmas wrapping later (presumably in the basement where all the FAO presents were stored, too).
JonBenet and Patsy argued the afternoon of Christmas Day, about what JBR was going to wear to the Whites' party. Patsy wanted her to wear an almost-twin outfit to her own - black velvet jeans/pants, a red sweater and/or Christmas-y vest.
(I'm going to continue onto another post so I don't lose this, because I'm up and down, AFK ...)
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JonBenet, being an independent woman of age 6, said "No!" Somehow, a compreomise was worked out that she could dress herself in what she wanted to. She decided that wearing a white long-sleeve top with a sequined star in the front with the black velvet leggings or pants would be perfect. I *get* the kid logic - white for the Whites.
Patsy said there was also a vest that went with this outfit, which was a Gap ensemble - but I don't know what the vest looked like or if she wore it. I kind of think it might have been the multi-colored sweater seen on the other bed in her room in the crime scene photos, but other posters always said that was too ugly (it was). There was another one that looked like it might be Christmas-y on black background, but no one ever confirmed it.
So, we don't know if she wore the vest, as we've never heard from the Whites publicly. She did not have it on when her body was found - only the white top, the thermal longjohns Patsy said she changed her into while she was asleep from the car trip home from the Whites, and the over-sized Bloomies, size 12-14, with a Wednesday waistband.
JonBenet was *said* to have worn her own size 6 Wednesday Bloomies all evening to the Whites' party. There was no seeming explanation for the big pair she had on. You will often read that the perp "re-dressed" her. I won't go into that, except it might mean 1) perp did the sexual assault and then pullled the panties and pants back up or 2) there was a miscommunication because Patsy originally told LE the little kidnapped "missing" girl had on a red sweater when last seen.
I've always believed the Whites told LE that JBR had on the white star top the evening before and they knew that differed from what Patsy was telling LE about the red top. They even went and got the pix developed to prove it. Still, Patsy might have changed her top when she put her to bed - but to put on a nice sweater? No way.
Then the red turtleneck was found soaking in the sink in the bathroom right outside JBR's bedroom.
OK. Could've all been a mix-up, right? If so, what happened to the size 6 Bloomies she had on when she went to bed and how did the 12-14 Bloomies wind up on JonBenet when she was found murdered?
Patsy explained that away by saying that JonBenet had liked the Bloomies so much that she talked her mom into keeping the cousin's package, too, for herself. I guess to grow into in a few years! Then Patsy claimed that when she fumbled around in the dark for some pajama bottoms to put on JBR the night before, feeling in her dresser drawer without turning on the lights, so as not to wake her up, that she just grabbed the wrong pair of undies.
All right. First of all, JBR's undies weren't kept in the bedroom dresser drawer, they were kept in the bathroom, outside the bedroom. Second of all, the cleaning lady said she never saw the 2nd unopened Bloomies package of underwear, only the little size 6's JonBenet wore that night and hadn't worn before. Third, how did Patsy, in the dark, manage to grab the Wednesday panties, which were the Christmas Day appropriate day? Out of a brand-new package of panties, no less?
She explained it that JonBenet had dressed herself and probably had them on all night. JonBenet couldn't read, much less read the cursive "Wednesday" on the waistband. One of the JBR forums has a pic of what the 12-14 size Bloomies would look like on JonBenet.
So, you decide what happened here.
I do recall from another report that the panties JBR had on said "Wednesday" on the waistband. That tells me that this one was probably not the *first* panty in the bag. Assuming that 7 panties with the days of the week on them would have packaged in the order of the days of the week, meaning the "Wednesday" panties were the third pair in the bag.
What that tells me is that there could have been prints on the bag the underwear came in as the bag was opened and then the panty pulled out. Has anyone dusted that bag and who's prints did they find? What about the drawer the panties were in? If the prints are not from JBR on any other member of the Ramseys (or the housekeeper), that could be significant. If the prints are *only* those of the Ramseys, it would be safe to assume that no intruder picked out or put on the panties for her.