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Clothing for tweens
In article , "Beeswing"
wrote: "dragonlady" wrote in message ... Surprisingly, one place my kids (now 18 and 21) insist on continuing to shop is a store that specializes in school uniforms. The slacks they carry are Dickies (I think that's how it's spelled) which are similar in quality and style to Dockers, but much less expensive. Plus, if we shop there in June and July, we get a discount, and they do cheap hems for free -- since DD#2 has her Mom's short legs, this is particularly welcome. Funny -- my daughter's elementary school requires school uniforms; most of what The Kid wears comes from http://www.frenchtoast.com. She's happy enough with it, and it makes it easy on my husband and I. I'd bet almost anything, though, when she hits middle school, she won't come near anything vaguely uniformlike voluntarily. Except maybe her scout uniform at meetings...if we're lucky. beeswing My kids don't buy ALL their clothes there -- just the pants. But they LOVE the pants. (And DD#1, especially, buys LOTS of her clothes at 2nd hand stores. She makes her own style, but has an amazing ability to put stuff together that, somehow, works. She even rented a vintage dress for her prom -- a 20's dark blue velvet thing that was stunning on her.) meh -- Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care |
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"Leah Adezio" wrote in message ... Beeswing wrote in message ... "dragonlady" wrote in message ... Plus, if you can stand going into Filene's basement (the original, not one of the suburban knock offs) and have time to really shop, you can find some amazing bargains! I think I spent the greater part of my childhood following around my mother in the Sear's Bargain Basement. (It was located at the original "flagship" Sears store.) That brought back memories! Ah, but Filene's [original] basement is an experience like no other. I went to school in Boston my freshman year in college and immediately sought out the Basement. When my parents came up to visit me for parents' weekend, I took my mother there and it was like she'd become a woman possessed! Since Mom was always a very laid back person, it was an absolute hoot to see her become this, well....shopping shark. Meek little old ladies become savages there. Children are sacrificed to the Shopping Gods. World title prizefighters had absolutely nothing on the shoppers at Filene's Basement. They would run like rabbits from mountain lions. I spent many a childhood afternoon with my grandmother, the shopping shark, at Filenes Basement, with my mother along for company. My mom swears that Filenes Basement (the original in Downtown Crossing) pales in comparison to the original Loehmanns, where there were no changing rooms and women walked all around the store in their underwear. Sigh...that would have been interesting! As a kid, I remember going to Loehmanns with my mom and being so surprised at the communal dressing rooms. It was a great lesson in 'we come in all shapes and sizes' for me. I miss that kind of shark-like shopping. We just don't have shopping challanges anymore, and IMO, that's a shame. Marjorie, competitive shopping wannabe Leah beeswing |
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"animzmirot" wrote: You are a woman after my own heart. I come from a long line of sales shoppers...there's me, my mother, and her mother before her.... Me too. If it's not on sale, I don't buy it. I'd recommend checking Marshalls and TJMaxx as well. DD does really well at our local Marshalls. If you have a Loehmanns, you might want to look there in the petite sizes. I'd skip Old Navy. The clothes, IMO, are trampy and very poorly made. Nothing we've ever purchased there has lasted well. I like the Gap Outlet, but DD would rather DIE than wear anything purchased there. She likes Abercrombie, but again, too expensive and too trampy for our tastes. Other people feel differently...but that's just a YMMV. Marjorie I have a friend who always shops for her daughters at Old Navy, because the girls are very tall, and she says they have good sizes. As a devout Mormon family, they don't wear anything that could even remotely be called "trampy". I've been in there a couple of times, and seen basic pants and shirts -- nothing I can imagine being called trampy. Same with Abercrombie -- though I haven't been in one, my kids have been sent stuff from that store and it was basic sweat shirts and long sleeve shirts. So it must be possibe to get "not trampy" stuff there, too. meh -- Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care |
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"H Schinske" wrote in message ... wrote: My mom swears that Filenes Basement (the original in Downtown Crossing) pales in comparison to the original Loehmanns, where there were no changing rooms and women walked all around the store in their underwear. I can remember being told about *some* sale or other that it was the "done thing" to wear a leotard, tights, and a slip-on skirt to the sale, because then you could try on almost anything in the aisles. My roommates and I used to do that shopping the warehouse district while we were in college. Lots of great buys, but communal dressing rooms if there were dressing rooms at all. Then again, back then leotards and wrap skirts were the fashion, and common everywhere. |
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"Cathy Kearns" wrote:
"H Schinske" wrote in message ... wrote: My mom swears that Filenes Basement (the original in Downtown Crossing) pales in comparison to the original Loehmanns, where there were no changing rooms and women walked all around the store in their underwear. I can remember being told about *some* sale or other that it was the "done thing" to wear a leotard, tights, and a slip-on skirt to the sale, because then you could try on almost anything in the aisles. My roommates and I used to do that shopping the warehouse district while we were in college. Lots of great buys, but communal dressing rooms if there were dressing rooms at all. Then again, back then leotards and wrap skirts were the fashion, and common everywhere. My mom taught us how to try things on without a dressing room. Only needs that you not wear trousers. You don't have to wear a wrap skirt and a leotard, although it helps if your dress isn't too tight and/or doesn't have tight armholes or is a bit stretchy. Any regular skirt and a fairly loose pullover will work. You either put the thing you are trying on under what you are wearing and then take what you are wearing off, or you put what you are trying on, on top of what you are wearing and then take what you are wearing out from under it. If you are trying on trousers, you don't even have to take the top garment off if you don't want to - just lift and bunch. We use to shop at Loehmans and they had communal dressing rooms, but my that time, we'd been used to undressing in front of other females for PE and showering in gang showers so the communal part wasn't a problem. grandma Rosalie |
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:50:40 EST, "Rosalie B."
wrote: "Cathy Kearns" wrote: "H Schinske" wrote in message My mom swears that Filenes Basement (the original in Downtown Crossing) pales in comparison to the original Loehmanns, where there were no changing rooms and women walked all around the store in their underwear. snip My roommates and I used to do that shopping the warehouse district while we were in college. Lots of great buys, but communal dressing rooms if there were dressing rooms at all. Then again, back then leotards and wrap skirts were the fashion, and common everywhere. snip We use to shop at Loehmans and they had communal dressing rooms, but my that time, we'd been used to undressing in front of other females for PE and showering in gang showers so the communal part wasn't a problem. What's the big deal about communal dressing rooms? Don't you usually have those in the US? They were very common in the UK when I was a teenager (probably still are, I haven't checked recently) particularly in stores that catered to young people. Marks and Spencers, OTOH, didn't offer any changing room facilities at all in those days, but English people would have rather dropped dead than be seen to be surreptitiously trying something on under your skirt. I find communal facilities to be far preferable to a small (insufficient) number of individual dressing rooms, which is what many establishments seem to have now. --Lisabell |
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