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by stevendepolo

Question: How to deal with the consequences of being fashion conscious in high school?
High school is…. brutal.
I love clothes, fashion anything to do with it.
I come into school with my vintage blouse and high waisted skirt with pointy toe-d flats.I feel cute, but what do I get as feedback?
“You look like a 50 year old going to a job interview.”
“Where could you possibly buy an outfit that weird.”
“Why don’t you just wear normal clothes?”
“You wear such old women clothes, Ali.”
And the glares and “check-outs” in the hallway. People snicker, guys think I look “weird.”

I know I should do what makes me happy and not care one bit what others think, but it gets hard. All the insults make me wonder if its really worth dressing how I want to if I’m just going to get made fun of and never find a single guy in my town who’s decent and likes me.

Answer:

Answer by marjan
I hate that! At my highschool, the more fashion foward, the better. I’m sorry your school is a toned down, type of cloned place where everyone shops at the same stores. (well that’s what is sounds like). To be honest, if i was in your place, i’d probably tone it up some more! It’s good to be an individual . If you have the courage to, then dress how you want! You shouldn’t be intimidated! Just think of some comebacks to throw at them. : ) You sound like you have a great sense of style. I hope that helped!

Question: Do you think I’m Materialistic?
I was talking on the phone to my friend and she called me materialistic!!! She said I am a spoiled brat which is not true. She asked me about some of my new clothes I got for school and I started telling her. And then she said it.

And these were her exact words “You are so materialistic. You think that just because you have 75 pairs of jeans you’re soooo special. Well in 20 years no one will care. you have all these fancy clothes and no one cares.”

I was like umm excuse me I but just about all my “fancy clothes” on sale. I clip coupons to department stores from the newspapers. I buy vintage. And she asked me! And it not like she poor or anything. She has just as many clothes as I do.

now I’m the first one to admit I love clothes and stuff. I love to shop. and I won’t say those things don’t mean anything to me because that would be lying. I don’t brag. I only tell people when they ask which she did. So what is your opinion?
I ALWAYS ALWAYS donate my old clothes to charity. That would be wasteful not too. but I mostly shop at the big department stores, vintage, and some other small botiques. I don’t brag about my stuf cause I probably do have more than the average person. I spend around 300 dollars a month on clothes.

Answer:

Answer by Dulce
I think you are pretty normal. Most of us girls are like that.

by Elsewhere Artist Collaborative

Question: Is my friend genuine or fake?
We’ve been friends for years.
It’s always been both of us and usually someone comes along and comes into our group as like a 3rd best friend i guess. The first time this happened they swayed to her and they always had sleepovers without me and then the other girl decided not to like me but my “best friend” would still bitch about me then act nice to my face. The next person to come along got close to my best friend again, she use to say she was her best friend and she was always inviting my best friend to go shopping/sleepovers and yet i was left a lone again. I need to add we broke friendship with both girls. The next friend was drawn to my best friend at first then me and her became close, we never had sleepovers without my best friend but did go into town a few times. one day we nearly went to the cinema then didn’t and talking it the next day my best friend was like “:O what? don’t invite me?” even though she was busy that day. We gradually became closer and as our large group of friends were walking behind us along with my best friend, us fast walkers would go on ahead untill one day my best friend got in a mood. After that we were still close friends with the girl then a few months later the girl decided to remain friends with me but not the rest of my friends. Another girl came along and got close to my best friend, they would constantly be talking in stupid baby voices always hugging and bumming each other when everyone else is around. Have sleepovers without me, she invites my best friend out without me. Thing is, my best friend now bitch’s about her behind her back. then always whines in a baby voice about if we make fun of her, then we make fun of her more and she does it again and wants to know why we treat her like a baby. And there is another girl, a loser nobody likes who she made friends with again (the second girl i was talking about) and they go to her house to get drunk and bitch about her behind her back. but she only started bitching about her when us other friends complianed about her trying to hang around with us. we pretended to be mean to this girl once and my best friend started crying then a few weeks later she’s encouraging us to be mean to her but only behind her back and if its infront of her then no way can she be involved because she’s such a “good” friend.
She also bitch’s about most people in our group making me think she probably does the same to me?
a few days ago talking about someone who can’t afford clothes and shops at charity shops she said “i just want to rip us all ehr clothes”. yet when we shop at vintage stores there is nothing wrong.. maybe she doesn’t even realise vintage is 2nd hand too?!

she has only recently started listening to indie / rock bands and claims to “love” every single band in the genre, yet if you look at her itunes she has one song by the artist and only listened to them because she got a free poster in a magazine. she claims to be indie and listens to tokio hotel. nervous that we were on her itunes she wanted to close it.

she stares at other girls outfits. staring at mine too then she copies them. and if she see’s somthing in a shop she’s say “oh this is nice” then eagerly look round for approval from us and if we don’t really do anything she’ll put it down. she buys some of the same clothes as me and the same jewellery and if we confront her about it she gets all nervous, somthing which is the worst situation ever for her!

she acts completely different around different people, like new personas for each person to make them like her then bitch’s about them behind their back.

should i continue being friends with her?

Answer:

Answer by Vinny A
naw she’s two faced if she was real she would act the same all the time

by stevendepolo

Question: Alternative options to dry cleaning?
So, I have this vintage coat, it’s crushed velvet, and looks super sweet, but it has that “old clothing” smell. Is there another option of getting rid of the smell other than going to a dry cleaners?

Answer:

Answer by csnubl
If it’s clean, but just musty smelling, try a freshener like Fabreze. If that doesn’t work, or if it’s dirty, try handwashing it in Woolite, then air-drying it.