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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I cannot believe how judgmental, unkind and unhelpful some of you are choosing to be to a mother who has been saving for something special for your daughter.

Look in the mirror. You are the Mean Girls. It’s you. Shame on you.

OP, I’m glad you and your daughter found a special dress. Get off DCUM for a while and enjoy your family and your life. [/quote]

Yours is the meanest attitude in the thread, though. [/quote]

I disagree with you. 
NP[/quote]

Ok. I guess you and the PP think it's mean to suggest thrift stores then. I shop at Target and thrift stores my kid's dresses. I guess I must be a mean, snobby girl, but really these are the best places to shop for dresses for this occasion and in this budget. She said Low SES so some of us who are also not rich thought she was serious about a budget. You'd think it would be mean to suggest Nordstrom or Macys, since I personally won't even buy stuff from Nordstrom in my budget and I am not even Low SES but middle class. If you don't want affordable options, why even mention the Low SES part?[/quote]

OP here. I started a “regular thread” that was completely ignored and I was seeking specific suggestions and needed to go today so I started this SES thread as a bit of an S.O.S., if you will. I was very specific that I did NOT want suggestions like “thrift” or “be economical” or “think of the environment” because this is special. I’ve saved for it, I wanted my daughter to actually walk into a nice store full of new clothes and not have to deal with the Once Upon a Child or thrift type of environment. I was very clear. So no, the suggestions to “just do this or that” were not helpful.

No it was NOT a bad suggestion to name Macy’s, as an actually helpful poster did, because I had saved for this purpose, for this experience. We got to go to Macy’s today and find a nice dress and not have to thrift like always.

Again, I appreciate the actually helpful posters who got it without trying to talk me out of my clearly outlined mission that I had saved for.[/quote]

I read your original post and I had an absolutely no idea that you were looking to splurge on a dress. I suggested Kohl's because I found great things there for my tween. Not that all of their dresses are cheap, at least not to me. Saying low SES in the title was very strange.

- someone very likely with less money than you [/quote]

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