Everything about this is not right. From a 6th grade with a closet full of Dolce & Gabbana, Juicy Couture, True Religion and Seven For All Mankind to her getting bullied for not having the right clothes. The whole thing is fucked up.
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Oct 25, 2007 4:09:14 pm PDT #8680 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
sarameg - Oct 25, 2007 4:09:21 pm PDT #8681 of 10001
Sweet, tommy!
Seriously, the penguing footage was of them storming through people lying on the beach, traisping on terraces and squwaking on lawns.
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2007 4:25:54 pm PDT #8682 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kat, I barely understand that article. It's so freaking alien.
Kat - Oct 25, 2007 4:33:58 pm PDT #8683 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I KNOW. I get the kids picking on each other for clothing (Willow and the softer side of sears). But what is alien is the idea that a parent would pay for clothes that are that expensive for a kid!
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2007 4:37:03 pm PDT #8684 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
YES. Unless these are all financial prodigies, the parents are...man, I can't imagine. But my mother was frightfully hard-assed about that sort of stuff. If status was determined by the number of vials in your chemistry set, I was golden. Otherwise? SOL.
aurelia - Oct 25, 2007 4:48:44 pm PDT #8685 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I think I'm finally sold on school uniforms.
Not only is that first mom spending outrageous amounts of money on the clothes, she's not letting her kid be a kid.
But the headline expressing shock at this happening in Middle School? Eh. It was when I was in Jr. High that everyone was expected to have Jordache, Nike, Izod and Swatch (I only had the Nikes). Things loosened up in high school. Or maybe I just didn't feel the pressure so much by then.
Pix - Oct 25, 2007 4:49:39 pm PDT #8686 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
This is why I love school uniforms.
aurelia - Oct 25, 2007 4:55:36 pm PDT #8687 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Jesse - Oct 25, 2007 4:55:43 pm PDT #8688 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh god, there was this poor girl (poor in two senses, actually, but I meant the "poor her!" sense) who got a Jordache purse in sixth grade or so...but she got it at the flea market a year too late. She got more shit. I guess it's better to be style-neutral than obviously behind the times.
Vortex - Oct 25, 2007 4:57:39 pm PDT #8689 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
My aunt and uncle (and my young cousin's grandmother) spend that kind of money. I was flabbergasted when I went shopping with them and they spent as much on one outfit as my parents would have spent on an entire year's worth of clothes. I mean, yes a bit of time has passed, but still.