question- do the designers plan on selling the gowns after they're returned? Do people commonly pay thousands of dollars for what is essentially a used garment?

What exactly do the designers do with the returned dresses, anyway? If I were buying a designer original, I would expect one that hadn't been worn. Is that unrealistic?

Can a fashion biz person help explain something to me, pretty plz?

Unless you knew Rhianna would only make her grand entrance in your dress, quickly change, then get shit faced at her birthday party, I'm not sure why anyone would think that was a great idea.

I love fashion and I will defend the right of anyone to purchase ludicriously expensive dresses to wear once but I just can't muster up any sympathy for these designers who give dresses to people for publicity. Do they expect it to be totally free publicity? Because it's not and it shouldn't be. There is a cost…

Am I the only one who googled these to try to figure out which dresses were stained/wrecked/stolen? Also, I just can't understand why these people don't have more respect for objects that aren't theirs. Regardless of what they're borrowing, whether it's PJ pants from a best friend or a million dollar dress, isn't…

I have been screamed at by Halston himself for the state of a gown I returned to him when I was a stylist's assistant. The dress was shoved into a Banana Republic suit bag and in shreds. I had no idea what I was returning, it had just been thrust into my arms by the other assistant along with about 50 other pieces…

Everyone has their own preferences. If he'd said something like, "Oh, I love a girl in a skirt," or, "Man, I'd love to see your great legs in a skirt," I'd be a lot more inclined to chalk it up to silly flirtation.

YES. It's not that hard, people!

Is it wrong that I feel more sorry for the dog more than those Jenelle and Keiffer?

Barbara was probably the worst interventionist ever. She seems to have good intentions, but she is just so confrontational and accusatory. I can just picture her busting into Jennelle's house being like "Jennelle ya ahn HEROINE! Ya gahta stop it NOW." While this might work for some, clearly Jennelle does not respond…

I dunno about the rest of you, but I"m *so glad* we have some dude-bros here hurrying over to tell us how this isn't a big deal and the pledges should just 'man up'. cos there's nothing like random internet dudes telling a bunch of women what is and isn't inappropriate! thanks random dudes! my poor ladybrain is *so*…

The notion that people are just free agents, totally devoid of influence from outside sources, and that they can just objectively analyze situations and go the maverick way on a dime is just wrong. It's an uninformed view of social psychology and a disastrously reductive right-wingish appraisal of groups. Look at Abu…

Did you ever see the 1981 movie The Wave? Or read the book it was based on, The Third Wave? People are really malleable. YHC is pretty isolated. This sort of Greek Life is a pervasive part of the school's social structure. If everyone in a room is calling a banana an orange, you will start to wonder if it really is an…

Bah, kids these days have it easy. Back in my day at Old Harris College we didn't even consider this stuff hazing.

If you get convinced - during your first time not living with your family - that if you don't put up with the hazing you will spend all four years of college with zero friends, it's pretty hard to say "no" to the hazing.

Maybe this is because I had a privileged life, but I will never understand the desire to inflict harm on others just for the sake of doing it, especially if I had to go through the same thing.

Only somewhat related, but is it common for male fraternities to have 'sweethearts', and if it is, what is their role within the organisation?

She went to Silver Hill the first time (I'm not blowing the lid on that, she was pretty open about how / why / and where)... SH is much like McLean (both focus on DBT, both cost a ton, and both have a long waiting list).

Fancy dresses may look like you just threw them on and look pretty, but I guarantee there is a substructure of epic proportions going on under that purple fabric. It's like the Golden Gate Bridge in power mesh.