[Egon]

THEN follow the rules and don’t be a slut.

Which rules? The ones that changed out from under her? She sent a picture of the dress, and it was approved.

[nmh]

You: Which rules? The ones that changed out from under her? She sent a picture of the dress, and it was approved.”

“Melerine said she is larger-busted than many of the girls who passed inspection at the door of the Magnolia Plantation dance hall at Elmwood Park, that it is harder for her to get the right fit in a prom dress, and that Gardner gave her blessing to a picture of the dress long before the dance.”

A PICTURE of the dress was approved. How it LOOKED ON HER, VIOLATED the rules everyone else has to abide by.
A PICTURE of a dress doesn’t show you how it will look on her. She pushed the envelope and lost.

[Inquisitive1]

She sent a picture of the dress, and it was approved.

A picture of a dress would not, I imagine, look quite the same as it would when someone is acutally WEARING it, esp if you're trying to fit 10 lbs of s**t into a 5 lb bag.