Didn’t he kiss Carter right before she died? He also kissed the Fixer lady.

I was going to say the same thing, but “Equilibrium” instead of “The Island.”

I think your mom is right, here. My own mom went through the same gift-giving thing with my dad. It wasn’t until she said “no more” and stopped buying him presents altogether that he started to realize he really wasn’t holding up his end of the deal. The fact of the matter, the money and stress of gift-buying is HUGE,…

My mother says that fashion designers are pushing that look on purpose: they know that ultimately older women are the only one who can afford (are willing to pay for) high end fashion right now, so they are quietly designing clothes that will be loose and comfortable for older women (because that’s what that customer…

Yup. I’ve been getting properly fitted bras, and was shocked to find I was a 30DD/32D when I’d been wearing 32A bras. Why? ‘Cause I just thought I was small, and small breasts wore As. Turns out, most the tissue was just getting squished into my arm pits, but still, I don’t look huge—I have a pretty broad/round base…

When this came up with my boyfriend (now husband) I said: You wouldn’t buy a Ferrari and not expect to put time and money into maintaining it. If you’d prefer a more affordable Honda Civic or a Volvo, please, be my guest.

Probably not very feminist of me, but he got it and hasn’t complained about the money I spend on…

Also, she really looks like she got a laser skin peel at the dermatologists’ office. That’s the tell-tale greasy sunscreen they slather on you afterwards and drill into you that you have to wear several days out. I know because my mom had that same shiney/greasy look the day after she had hers done. If you get a lot…

So true! And astounding how many were in music—though maybe it’s selective bias, based on my own experiences as a music-focused kid. But I remember when I was 13, I started voice lessons with a music teacher. He said some things to me that, when I told my mother, disturbed her enough that she immediately un-enrolled…

This! Since more and more clothing has been sent to be mass-produced, it’s being designed to have fewer and straighter seams. And while they might not produce more size 0s in terms of mass-production quantity, as someone mentioned in this thread, the producers are going to *advertise* these fashions on size 0s because…

Wow, I’m so impressed by this. What great work! I’m still puzzling over how he did the spin-motion with the blades, etc. I can’t make my toys hold on to anything properly.

It’s been an interesting assortment, for me. I mostly get passive-aggressive comments from women my own age who did change their names, telling me “I’ll regret it someday.” Then my dad has a really hard time with the concept. He hasn’t said anything, but he always addresses letters and everything to Mrs.…

I’m stumped by this, too! My husband’s last name doesn’t work well with my first name, hyphenating is too long, and he doesn’t want to give up his cultural heritage with his name. I also want to keep my last name for various reasons.

Just wait. Wait until one day you forget to wear your wedding ring and some man hits on you, and you say, “No, thanks, I’m married.” And he blows up at you for “leading him on.” Even though you thought you were just responding politely in the grocery line.

Wait until some guy who has just been friendly and personable…

I have a couple of actress friends, and they are instructed to dress similarly to the part they are going for. Eg, one friends was auditioning for a ghost wife so she wore a long, white lace dress. The idea is not to show up in “costume,” per se, but to wear something that doesn’t clash with the part (like, don’t wear…

That was my impression, too. I read it between 2002-2006 and loved the featurettes on boutiques and the mix of high-and-low prices. That really matched how I personally built outfits because I’d always pick one nice, distinctive high-end piece and pair it with a bunch of affordable stuff. But whenever I picked it up…

She does indeed. This is in fact not even the most a**-kickingest story I have of my mother.

I’m really overwhelmed by the number of comments I’ve been getting, so, I just want to say, thanks for all the positive remarks, and I’ll convey to my mama how everyone thinks she is awesome :).

Thank you!

Does it count if you didn’t fully realize it was awful?

I was about five years old. My mother decides to load four of us kids in the van and take us from Washington State to California, to go to my mom’s cousin’s wedding. While there, we were also going to visit her siblings and go to Disneyland and all sorts of fun…

I think Kinja killed my picture, or I added it incorrectly, this is the Reem Acra I got from Glamour Closet.

I posted about Glamour Closet, below! I got a Reem Acra for ~2000 (I think it was $1800, but can’t recall exactly) and I was SO in love with the gown.