How To Handle It If Your Parents Buy You Dorky Clothes
- June 29, 2009
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Director/ Camera/ Editor
Steven Streeter
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Production Designer/ Hand Model
Natalia Streeter
- Actor Davis Johnson
- Extra- Brother Mason Johnson
- Extra- Mother CJ Johnson
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Voice Over Artist
Peter Coleman
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Music
Andy Gabrys
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Writer
Lara
When it comes to clothes, are your parents still trying to dress you like a fifth grader? Then you need to take charge.
You Will Need
- A take-charge attitude
- Creativity
- Maturity
- Ingenuity or money
Step 1: Check return policy
Check the store’s return policy. Some places will issue store credit without a receipt if the tags are still intact and the clothes appear undamaged. So control the impulse to damage the clothes.
Consider trying to sell them on eBay—your trash may be someone else’s (pitiful) treasure.
Step 2: Donate them
If returning the clothes is out of the question, try donating them to charity. Explain to your parents that you “have so much, while others have so little.”
Step 3: Tailor them
Make some alterations. With a bit of ingenuity and access to a sewing machine (or at least scissors), it’s possible to transform something ugly into something pretty—or, at the very least, something non-offensive.
Unless you’re pretty good at garment alteration, spend a little money to have them professionally altered. Ill-fitting pleated trousers may be bad, but ill-fitting pleated shorts are worse.
Step 4: Ruin it accidentally
Accidentally ruin the clothes by reading the laundering instructions and then doing exactly the opposite. If it says “dry-clean only,” toss it in the washing machine with a pair of jeans on “heavy load.” Feign disappointment.
Step 5: Try honesty
Of course, you could always try being honest. Explain to your parents the importance of not resembling a vision-impaired septuagenarian.
Refrain from bratty outbursts like, “Just because you’ve given up on looking good, doesn’t mean I have to!” Remember, the goal is to convince your parents to stop treating you like a small child.
Step 6: Work it
Your final option? Work it! Make do with what you’ve got. Do you think that history’s greatest tastemakers shopped at the mall?
Some stores use special computer programs to prevent “serial returners” from abusing the return system.
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Comments (6)
Nice house!!
over 2 years ago by Puggiepug
Love this video! Great acting and directing!
over 2 years ago by HeatherM
Work it may be better,for they have bought it already.
http://www.shopinsilk.com
5 months ago by Pamela123_
I found the video to be entertaining x ) I find it helps to actually go to the mall with the parents if given the choice between staying at home or actually trying on the clothes.
over 2 years ago by Twillian
Excellent acting, kid!
over 2 years ago by lifeseasy
Dorky clothes: a painful childhood experience. Great video!
over 2 years ago by BCipolla
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