Is anybody else a victim of Single White Female syndrome?
I like to dress myself and my three young children nicely - from a range of different designers and retailers - however, I've noticed in the last 8 years that, every time I or one of the children wears a new outfit in public, my stalker instantly buys not just one but literally thousands of identical outfits from the same suppliers - until they actually sell out. I've no idea how she could possibly wear them all or where she stores them all.
I tried to track down who it is doing it, but it seems that she's got her own empire (bit of a sore point, but that's another thread entirely) going. She apparently has a huge number of people working for her as all of my designer contacts report that it's a different purchaser every time - presumably buying them on her behalf, one at a time, to deliberately hide her own identity and to throw me off the scent.
My AIBU is: should I feel flattered that somebody clearly admires my style so much and put up with it (still creeps me out, though) or should I thwart her by deliberately buying all of our clothes in future from charity shops, car boots and jumble sales? We're not too badly off at the moment, but I suppose it always helps to be able to save a few quid where possible.
Alternatively, I have a friend in Brighton who is very well known for her 'strong' fashion choices (think extremely pink-heavy with lots of pony themes going on). I admire her bravery - she's actually got a job in the public eye - but it isn't a look that anybody else I've ever met seems to want to emulate (with the possible exception of my old acquaintance Kerry, who was a singer in a short-lived girl group). Should I ask her if she would be able to design an extensive range for me, based on her own personal style? She could certainly use the money I could pay her as I hear she's rather skint just now and, as it would be such a huge departure from my normal 'look', I'm 100% confident that my copycat stalker would rapidly lose interest and find something more productive to do with her life - so that would be a big win all round.
Only thing is, my chum is considerably more ample than I am in the chest department, so she would have to make some severe adjustments to what she's personally used to for them to hang properly on me. In fact, when she was just starting to achieve fame, she found it so difficult actually finding and affording clothes to accommodate her bosom that she had to spend a lot of time in just her pants, and the horrible, mean tabloids got wind of this and were constantly sending their photographers around, the poor thing (again, extremely sore point there).
She's unable to drive at the moment (anxiety, I presume), but she's still on good terms with her lovely ex, Peter, and he has a lot of spare time on his hands at the moment, so I'm sure he'd be able to pop the clothes around to my place in Norfolk.
What's the general MN consensus?!