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- From: biddleco@mizar.usc.edu (Susan Biddlecomb)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: flower girl dress needed
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 18:44:50 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <BxvJty.6pr@plato.ds.boeing.com> simnet@ssc-bee.uucp (Aileen Hsu) writes:
- > My daughter has just been asked to be the flower girl in my sister-in-law's
- >wedding. I went out yesterday to look for a white dress for her to
- >wear for the wedding, the only ones I found cost $70-$100. I think
- >this is too much for something she can only wear for a couple times
- >during one season. Then I remember a few months ago, I saw a little
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- Oh, gosh, this is way too much money. I don't know how old your daughter
- is, but Angelica (3 years old TODAY!) has a closet full of very frilly/
- lacy dresses, in every color of the rainbow. Many with underskirts and
- flounces. I also don't know where you live, but we picked up these dresses
- in the downtown L.A. garment district for $10-20 each. There's an 'alley'
- where wholesalers sell stuff to retail customers, and you can also just go
- up to a wholesale shop and ask if they'll sell retail and they usually will.
- Do other cities have places like this, or is L.A. unique? The other thing
- is that you mainly see little Latino girls (mainly Mexican) in these dresses
- and around L.A., at least, any neighborhood with a concentration of Latinos
- also has shops with this same kind of dress for a little higher than the
- garment district shops.
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- We buy all her clothes in garment. Angelica has a whole wardrobe of
- disney-character T-shirts and shorts that were $3 each (plus a discount
- for buying a bunch and another discount because I was able to speak to
- the store proprietor in Farsi :-)) If we had to buy her clothes at REAL
- stores we'd be dead broke!
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- Susan
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