[Mindpatch]

Is it weird to go shopping for clothes with your parents?...
I just don't know... Most people shop on their own.
I'd like to know so..


P.S. I'm rather serious about this so could you leave it here rather then common room?

[Someone Else]

I think it's strange that you make a topic like this and make it so serious.

Generally I do go shopping with my mother because I'm not bothered to organize some sort of social outting when I just want to go to a store to pick up a game or get some clothes, and if I go with my parents I get to go where I want to go in a car, which is much faster than a bike of course.

The only time it bothers me so much is when it's the mall and some people from my school see me. My school is THAT kind of school, you see...

[TheEnglishman]

To be honest it doesn't bother me at all, until I go into a games shop. Then it feels, the moment I step through the door, that I've stepped into some mad place in which it really bothers me. I guess it's because they don't know too much about games. (Though my mum knows a fair bit more than she used to.) Apart from that, nope it doesn't bother me.

[Golden Legacy]

I agree with Wind Dude. It's certainly not bad to shop for clothes with your parents. After all, who's got a nice shiny credit card for you to use? :P

But in all seriousness, what usually happens is that they take me to the mall, I pick my own selections, and my parents just give their suggestions about it. I personally am not too serious when it comes to clothing, so even if my parents don't like a particular selection, I just figure why bother them and I just put it back.

And besides, parents themselves can often make surprisingly good choices or suggestions for you.

[TheEnglishman]

Golden Legacy, on Aug 1 2006, 08:43 PM, said:

And besides, parents themselves can often make surprisingly good choices or suggestions for you.

That's happened to me before. I've been looking for clothes before and my parents have just suggested something and I'll think 'That's exactly what I want.'

[FlamingDuck]

I go with my parents, and the only it bothers me is when people from my school see me. Like WD.

But they pay for stuff, I pick it out. Its a good system.

[Aquamarine]

I very rarely even buy my own clothes. My parent's always insist on me going with them to get some new clothes, but I can't be bothered so they get it without me. And what they get is most of the time really good, just what I'd want.

But I think it's better if you just go with a friend, my friend's often call me to go with them so I can tell them what I think.

[Toasty]

My sister's a year and a half older, and definately one of the more popular people among her peirs, so usually when I go to the mall to get clothes, my sister gives her opinion, and my mom buys it. My mom even usualy pays for at least most of, if not all of my video games, because when we go to Portland (Oregon), she gives my sister and I $60 to spend.

[Luna]

It's not weird at all. Although... I'm a girl so, shopping for certain girly stuff with my dad = LOL, NO.

But then again shopping with my mom is pretty annoying... She wants me to wear all the crap that the other girls are wearing, etc.

Dad is more practical and rational.

It's rare that I go shopping though, mom has a store and always brings me clothes >>;

[Mindpatch]

Awesome, I just wanted to know if I'd be looking silly buying new clothes with my mom, I bought new shoes!!!

[Bexie]

I hate shopping with my mum, that's why I don't do it. xD My mother doesn't buy my clothes anyway, I do. So why should she come?

But you know what's REALLY awful?
Shopping for your prom outfit.
With your grandmother.

[Golden Legacy]

That means I'll have to go with my dad next year to pick out a tux for me to wear... for the prom.

Oh dear.

Then again, it's just a tux. They all look mostly the same, anwyay.

[Echo_djinn]

I don't shop with my parents. They buy the food, I buy clothes/eletronics that I need. Even if I am with my parents in a mall and they're shopping I am usually somewhere else.

[Bexie]

Golden Legacy, on Aug 5 2006, 07:39 PM, said:

That means I'll have to go with my dad next year to pick out a tux for me to wear... for the prom.

Oh dear.

Then again, it's just a tux. They all look mostly the same, anwyay.

Bah, guys have it easy. They just need a tux. Any one will do. Girls, noooo, we need to trawl around looking at frickin' dresses and bags and ****ing matching shoes... and THEN my friend got annoyed at me because we were in the same dress. I HATE IT ALL. I hate dresses, and I hate those stupid little shoes and bags. HATHATEHATEHATE.

... rant over.

[Mindpatch]

Why do you do that crap anyways, because if it's for guys to impress, we don't care what dress you're in, you could wear a towell for gods sake. As long as you put a little thought in it, it'll be allright ykno.

[Neon]

No, they do it to impress the other girls.
Don't laugh, i'm serious. The guys don't care too much (though better dress = hotter :smile:), but it's the girls who are most critical.
Plus everyone has their own personal standards and expectations.

And who says the tux doesn't matter :o. Some of us care about how we look you know. Need to choose the perfect, cooler looking tux than the other boring people :P.
We do get it easy with shoes and bags though ;)

[Mindpatch]

Neon, on Aug 6 2006, 06:09 PM, said:

No, they do it to impress the other girls.
Don't laugh, i'm serious. The guys don't care too much (though less dress = hotter :P), but it's the girls who are most critical.
Plus everyone has their own personal standards and expectations.

And who says the tux doesn't matter ;). Some of us care about how we look you know. Need to choose the perfect, cooler looking tux than the other boring people :o.
We do get it easy with shoes and bags though ;)

[shallow]Totally agree man. :smile: [/shallow]

[Aquamarine]

Neon, on Aug 6 2006, 06:09 PM, said:

No, they do it to impress the other girls.
Don't laugh, i'm serious. The guys don't care too much (though NO dress = hotter :smile:), but it's the girls who are most critical.
Plus everyone has their own personal standards and expectations.

And who says the tux doesn't matter :o. Some of us care about how we look you know. Need to choose the perfect, cooler looking tux than the other boring people :P.
We do get it easy with shoes and bags though ;)

Yes, you are quite right Neon. Girls do it just to be more popular amongst their gender. They shouldn't be popular if they look good, but if they're good hearted. I really do think that way.

[Golden Legacy]

^ Couldn't have said it better myself. 100% agree with you there. :smile:

[Mindpatch]

You mean, good-hearted without a dress right.. [/shallow again]

[Bexie]

I didn't dress up to impress anyone. I did it because I had to.

You can't really turn up at the prom in a Metallica t-shirt and ripped jeans. You'd get kicked out.

[Aquamarine]

I'm not saying that you yourself thinks like that Bex, but most girls do and that's had an impact on everyone else, who doesn't think like that, such as yourself.

[Luna]

Bexie, on Aug 6 2006, 04:08 PM, said:

I didn't dress up to impress anyone. I did it because I had to.

You can't really turn up at the prom in a Metallica t-shirt and ripped jeans. You'd get kicked out.

Precisely. I find it annoying to have to wear high heals and dresses that you can't even walk with but you just have to x_x.

[FlamingDuck]

I laugh at girls on formal dance nights. They're cussing at their shoes as they walk across the parking lot. Why do people wear those shoes? They take them of immediately after they get inside!!

[Luna]

Simple: It's the only type they sell.

[Sea of Time]

I shop with my parents, and I'm pretty much okay with it. Mostly because my parents like to shop right when the stores open so I don't see anyone I know there. :smile:

[Toasty]

I usually go out of town for clothes shopping, so I don't have to worry about that. :)

~~189300~~

[Mindpatch]

I usually shop online, I only go out shopping when I can't get it online. But I have to take my mom along and she's a friggin' rodent, running around like crazy looking at everything she sees to lay it back down a minute later because she doesn't really like it.

[Bexie]

FlamingDuck, on Aug 8 2006, 01:24 AM, said:

I laugh at girls on formal dance nights. They're cussing at their shoes as they walk across the parking lot. Why do people wear those shoes? They take them of immediately after they get inside!!

Sheba, on Aug 8 2006, 05:43 AM, said:

Simple: It's the only type they sell.

Indeed.
Do you know how long I was in town last year, looking for prom shoes without the stupid thin and tall heels?

Four hours.

And did I find any?

NOPE.

[Luna]

I went to my friend's graduation dance a couple of months ago and we met another girl who graduated about 3 years ago :o She was wearing shoes that looked like... ballet shoes, sort of. They didn't have the silly hard thing on the tip or anything though, and they had no heels at all. She was wearing them precisely cause she hates the usual prom shoes and that thing usually lasts from 8pm - 3 am and even 5 am here.

>> *plots getting that kind of shoe*