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<blockquote data-quote="scent of cedar" data-source="post: 610082" data-attributes="member: 1721"><p>Nomad, you are so sweet. Thank you, very much. Granddaughter and I did explore online. The reluctance to do it that way had to do with sizing, and with how the color of the dress would look, against her skin. We would have had to have it shipped express to get it there in time, and there would have been no way for us to return and reorder if the dress looked awful on her. What we did learn though, is that, when we found one we thought she liked online, we could call that store in a city close enough for me to drive to, to learn whether they had it in her size. And then, I could go there, and buy it. That was pretty cool. So that was Friday night and early Saturday morning. Then, on Saturday afternoon, an aunt decided to drive her two hours into a city near them, with a mall. So, we figured out that if I got a charge card at that same store near me, and waited for granddaughter to call me from her branch of that store, they could charge granddaughter's dress to me, because I would be at one of the branches with valid I.D. </p><p></p><p>So, that looked pretty good, right?</p><p></p><p>Wait for it....</p><p></p><p>Those plans fell through, because the poor aunt broke up with her boyfriend and went into a mini-depression!</p><p></p><p>No shopping, that day.</p><p></p><p>Which is how, having lost a day of mailing time, I wound up dashing off to that city near us and finding the Jessica McClintock. </p><p></p><p>Which granddaughter hated (so she told me, later) and which was like, a size zero, not a 4, at all.</p><p></p><p>Which is how I wound up shopping again, the next day, and finding the beautiful red dress.</p><p></p><p>:O)</p><p></p><p>And boy, it was stunning.</p><p></p><p>And here is the outcome. (And, while it seems to have been an exercise in frustration? I have been able to accomplish as much as months in therapy would have, because I was able to look at that anxiety response and realize it was not appropriate to this, or maybe, to any other, situation.) </p><p></p><p>It was win/win, as those rich corporate executives like to say.</p><p></p><p>:O)</p><p></p><p>So...the dress was too big.</p><p></p><p>And the aunt wound up taking granddaughter on the four-hour-one-way shopping expedition on Thursday, exchanged the dress I bought for another in the same store. Granddaughter got to her Homecoming dance and was, in her own words..."totally hot, Grandma!"</p><p></p><p>So, there you have the saga of the Homecoming dress, and of one traumatized grandmother's psychological break through.</p><p></p><p>:O)</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scent of cedar, post: 610082, member: 1721"] Nomad, you are so sweet. Thank you, very much. Granddaughter and I did explore online. The reluctance to do it that way had to do with sizing, and with how the color of the dress would look, against her skin. We would have had to have it shipped express to get it there in time, and there would have been no way for us to return and reorder if the dress looked awful on her. What we did learn though, is that, when we found one we thought she liked online, we could call that store in a city close enough for me to drive to, to learn whether they had it in her size. And then, I could go there, and buy it. That was pretty cool. So that was Friday night and early Saturday morning. Then, on Saturday afternoon, an aunt decided to drive her two hours into a city near them, with a mall. So, we figured out that if I got a charge card at that same store near me, and waited for granddaughter to call me from her branch of that store, they could charge granddaughter's dress to me, because I would be at one of the branches with valid I.D. So, that looked pretty good, right? Wait for it.... Those plans fell through, because the poor aunt broke up with her boyfriend and went into a mini-depression! No shopping, that day. Which is how, having lost a day of mailing time, I wound up dashing off to that city near us and finding the Jessica McClintock. Which granddaughter hated (so she told me, later) and which was like, a size zero, not a 4, at all. Which is how I wound up shopping again, the next day, and finding the beautiful red dress. :O) And boy, it was stunning. And here is the outcome. (And, while it seems to have been an exercise in frustration? I have been able to accomplish as much as months in therapy would have, because I was able to look at that anxiety response and realize it was not appropriate to this, or maybe, to any other, situation.) It was win/win, as those rich corporate executives like to say. :O) So...the dress was too big. And the aunt wound up taking granddaughter on the four-hour-one-way shopping expedition on Thursday, exchanged the dress I bought for another in the same store. Granddaughter got to her Homecoming dance and was, in her own words..."totally hot, Grandma!" So, there you have the saga of the Homecoming dress, and of one traumatized grandmother's psychological break through. :O) Cedar [/QUOTE]
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