Has anyone successfully managed to find a dress that a young teenage girl will wear to a wedding?

[CarlaBruni]

Said teen prefers the leggings/thick black tights and shorts look and Arthur Scargill fringe.

Have got one but suspect it'll go back... The dress, I mean, not the teen.

Any suggestions most welcome.

Yes, to stealing make-up. And at room tidy up time, clothes just get stuffed into the laundry basket rather than folded or hung-up.

Will show her teh Boden one when feeling brave.

I can show her a dress in the non-teen part of a shiop that is identical to a teen-type dress and get sneered at that it's "something you'd wear to the office"

CarlaBruni - maybe you need to paste just the photos of the dresses into a Word document, and print it out for her, so she can't see where it's from [evil ]?

I like your style, Jackie, like your style.

GOML...does your DD's mirror have suspicious-looking finger-shaped smears of mascara/foundation around it too ?

surely most wedding guests expect teenaged girls to behave like sulking 2 years olds and look scruffy?

well i do anyway. and i dont even have one . i just think " that poor mum. that will be me soon"

not " what IS that woman thinking of letting her out like that!!!!"

Yes - the mirrors are covered in make up smears.

And all my CLEAN towels have a turin shroud of dd's face on, in rimmel foundation.

don't get me goin' on the towels...

DD used to have blue black hair.

Nearly pushed me over the edge, that.

EVERYTHING in the house had a blue bruise on it from her hair/hairdye.

And towels get chucked in laundry basket after just brushing against teen's face