[Red Boots]

The clothes that are offered for teenage girls these days are awlful. We refused to buy most of them for our daughter, and she refused to wear anything from LL Bean or Land's End ( because WE wore clothes from them, making them taboo in teenage girl land), so we bought her a sewing machine.

She learned to sew so well that she just accepted an internship making costumes for a family theater company, and is planning to go to fashion design school in a few years. And I made her promise to design a line of DECENT and MODEST young girls clothing first thing.

[Annie03]

"She learned to sew so well that she just accepted an internship making costumes for a family theater company, and is planning to go to fashion design school in a few years. And I made her promise to design a line of DECENT and MODEST young girls clothing first thing."

That is just fabulous. Good for you for putting your foot down, and good for you daughter's stunning accomplishment!

[SuziQ]

She learned to sew so well that she just accepted an internship making costumes for a family theater company, and is planning to go to fashion design school

Good for her. Our daughter is homeschooled, so doesn't have the pressure from other girls to conform. But even when she WAS in school, she thought all that 'lastest fashion' stuff was stupid. Needless to say, she didn't have a lot of friends.