She’s Asking The Internet If She Was Wrong To Let Her Teen Daughter Wear An Expensive Dress To Her Sister’s House After It Got Ruined In A Fight
A woman asked the internet if she was wrong to let her teen daughter wear an expensive dress to her sister’s house after it got ruined in a fight.
There’s far more to this story though than I could pack into that first sentence, so let’s unpack this whole family drama.
This woman started out by saying she has a 15-year-old daughter named Georgia. Last weekend, she took her husband and Georgia with her to her sister’s house so they could have lunch together.
Although it was not a fancy occasion, Georgia insisted on wearing a very expensive designer dress for the get-together.
“Georgia is very bright,” this mom said. “She completed her exams early and is now studying more advanced material.”
“She’s a big fashionista, a lot more than I was at that age. She loves pretty clothes and outfits, and we’re happy to get her as much as we can, provided she behaves well and keeps up the good grades.”
Now, here comes the problem. Her sister is not exactly doing well financially. She’s a single mom with three children and she does not exactly have a job that pays her a lot.
Her sister has mentioned to her previously that she would appreciate it if Georgia would be able to “tone down her outfits” at her house because it makes her children feel bad.
Her sister just can’t afford to buy expensive things, and her own children end up getting upset over Georgia flaunting things like that in front of them.
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“I do get my sister’s point but it’s not down to me to police what Georgia wears. I have spoken to Georgia about it but I left the final decision to her,” this mom continued.
Back to the weekend lunch at her sister’s house. Georgia was wearing a pink, brand-new, expensive dress.
This mom’s niece, 13-year-old Lucy, ended up asking Georgia where she got her dress from.
“Georgia answered that it didn’t matter because Lucy couldn’t afford it anyway,” this mom explained.
“We told Georgia to shut up as soon as the comment left her lips, but it soon ended up with Georgia and Lucy screaming at each other.”
Lucy took her vanilla milkshake and threw it on Georgia, which ended up destroying the dress. Georgia started crying, and this mom’s sister rushed to get Georgia some clean clothes to wear.
This mom then told her sister she needed to pay for the dress if it turned out to be ruined permanently.
“My sister has refused and said that it was “our responsibility” because my daughter wore an expensive dress despite being warned not to,” this mom wrote.
“That dress cost a couple of hundred, and washing it has failed to completely remove the stains. Frankly, I don’t care about my sister’s warnings.”
“We can’t make Georgia wear what she doesn’t want to, and it’s not our problem that she can’t control her child and stop her ruining a beautiful dress.”
Here’s what the internet had to say.
“I’m starting to think that maybe Georgia isn’t as well behaved as they make her out to be..but that her behavior is excused and ignored.”
“Hey, who raised the kid… and bought the clothes… and drove her designer dress wearing kid to her impoverished sister’s house after being asked not to do that…”
“All Georgia did was act like a tactless, compassionless snob once there!”
“She has raised a bully, plain and simple. Her daughter is unkind and likes to prop herself up by bringing others down.”
“Also, I don’t understand the whole “I can’t tell my daughter what to wear.” I’m all about not policing kids bodies.”
“But that’s not what this is. I will teach my kids manners which includes dressing appropriately for the situation. People are going to be uncomfortable if you show up to a casual gathering dressed up to the 9s.”
“And it is incredibly bad taste to show up to a lower income household flaunting your wealth. Be a parent and tell your kid to change into something more appropriate for the occasion and explain why.”
“Your kid sounds not very nice, she might be bright, but being a nice person is something that is more cherishable.”
“It’s pretty clear to me that Georgia likes fancy clothes because they make her feel better than everyone else, in which case letting her dress herself has backfired miserably.”
“There is also a lesson here about appropriate situations for expensive clothes. A family lunch with younger kids running around is not the time to wear a dress worth several hundred dollars.”
“Neither is a hike or a picnic. In this case, the milkshake was thrown, but one of the kids could have just as easily accidentally knocked ketchup onto her or something else.”
“Nice fancy clothes should be for nice fancy occasions, and if she just wants to rub people’s faces in her expensive clothes all the time to everyday things, sooner or later an everyday clothing accident is going to happen and she’s gonna lose some of those harder to clean out clothes.”
“Plus there is so much you can’t do if you are being careful of your clothes all the time.”
You can read the rest of what the internet had to say here.
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