You know, sometimes babies just don't want to be dressed.
I, as the responsible parent, think that since it is freezing in my house if you stand more than 16 feet from the fireplace, babies should be wearing at least 1 layer of clothes. I remember watching my sister dress her dolls when I was a child and I always thought it wasn't very realistic. Shouldn't the baby be bending it's arms, kicking it's legs, and crying? Do babies really just lay there, passively, waiting to be dressed in a frilly smock?
In the real moments of baby dressing, the way I cope with a complex baby maneuver such as "the stiff back arch" is to simply let him be naked. I turn up the little heater and we stare at each other in the mirror. However, I am wearing clothes.