<sigh> clothes shopping with a teenage daughter NEVER AGAIN

[GetOrf]

Yesterday at Bicester village. I am never taking her shopping again.

My dd is someone who worhsips at the altar of Jack Wills, Superdry, Hollister and Abercrombie. So, yesterday I spent LOTS OF TIME in the Jack Wills and Superdry shops there and gritted my teeth and did not scoff at the 30 quid pencil cases and absurdly pretentious slogans on the tops. Oh no.

But when it was my turn to go into shops I had to drag her in all shuffle toed and listen to her curled lipped diatribes on my favourite shops.

My dd's opinions

All Saints - have they banned colour in this shop mum. Everything looks like it has been taken from the bottom of the dogs basket and put through a shrdedder. Plus you are too old for this mum, really.

Guess - this is for gay men. No don't look at the pink t shirts mum they are MINGING

Reiss - you are not Kate Middleton, mum. Bodycon dresses?

LK Bennet - oh god how BORING these clothes are. You always said slingbacks are really naff mum, why are you looking at a shiny purple pair? What are you going to wear shiny purple slingbacks with? Your new bodycon dress?

Hobbs - I am not going in there, look at it

Le Creuset -

French Connection - mum look at this top, it is SO nice, it's only £30, can I have it please?

I nearly brained her.

at mosschops30... You haven't mentioned the music! Is the the right level for you?

Dont even start on the music!

You know what i went into town today and got 3 bikinis, 2 bras and a pair of sandals, all in 2 hours
Which is what i originally went for on saturday and spent 6 hours in town with dd and ended up with very little

Not only does dd (14) roll her eyes but she now actually says 'sigh' after everything I say. Fortunately her Hollister obsession only lasted six months but she's now into hard rock band t-shirts, loads of black eyeliner and a desire for bright blue/red hair. Please may this be another 6 month phase...

I solve the teenage shopping problem by sending dd out with her 11yo little brother. Mind you, he did have some explaining to do when she came home with a bright yellow Eastern chicken outfit with red flowers. He shuffled his feet and looked embarrassed and muttered that he only looked into the games shop for a minute...

I LOVE Hobbs! (age maybe? I am nearly 40!)

Dont know any of the other shops you mentioned apart from FC and i hate that place.

Luckily, my 2 ds's are still young and happily wear whatever I buy them so its not an issue for me atm! (Mostly NEXT and ASDA/Tesco.)

Love your description of a shopping trip with your DD Toomuchtea:

"stalking around 6 paces ahead of me, sullen, wordless and with a face that could curdle cheese"

Glad it's not just me and DD17...

Well I normally hate shopping with my DD(12) but we went out at the weekend and she got a few bits and bobs then encouraged me to look at a few things (7 jeans yikes! very expensive) after all she said 'I had time now its your turn'. Whilst we were walking round the Mall she 'HELD MY HAND' people. I nearly fainted. In fact I told her to get off as someone might see. Oh how we laughed! Smug Smug Smuggy Smugness. Didn't last long though as she stormed off in the huff today when I said there was no way she was going on the school trip to Rome and screamed at her for being a 'spoiled brat'.

Really laughted at some of these. Just had a gruelling morning with 14 and 12 year old DD's. Eldest tends to hijack the trip , has very expensive taste and likes to try on anything I might fancy in her size thus demonstrating how it should be worn and depressing me! Finished off with fight between the two as younger said it's all about elder and I refused point blank to cross the threshold of H&M and Zara on 2nd day of sales.

my sons are really good at advising me
i think its because they can see when something is not quite me.. or im trying for a look ( heavne help me) that isnt me

they are withering but right

Dd has been like this since she was seven. I take her round her shops first and then suddenly she develops a headache, tummy ache, overwhelming tiredness with loads of winghing about going home. Have now realised do my shopping first. At any moaning I threaten that we won't go in her shops if it continues.

Beta did you just say that GetOrf should shop somewhere that "Really suits a woman in her late 30s and 40s"?

Uh-oh....

(and by "just" I mean 3 weeks ago, clearly)

GetOrf

There is a Wyevale 5 minutes up the road, threaten to ababdon her there whilst you look round. Never fails

Wow. Very glad that my children aren't spoilt and shallow.

Wow, really glad that my life isn't so empty that I revive 2 week old threads to make bitchy comments.