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.
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
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.