Mom's birthday is coming up. She is really old school.. I was going to surprise her to take her to an out of town store to get fitted. Or is this kind of like asking how much a woman weighs thing?

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• YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As long as YOU don’t ask the sizes and they do, and help her get fitted, it’s fine. You can sit in the chair outside the fitting room and be positive about the outfits you like and that look good on her.

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• velma@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mostly see this kind of fitting done for wedding dresses and similar. Usually high end. Does your mother wear expensive fashion?

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  • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No that’s kind of the whole point she hasn’t been fitted for a dress in decades. The expense is no matter to me as long as it makes her happy.

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    • phailhaus@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You should either include something to wear it to or indicate that future gifts may go that direction. Dressing up to go to a show, symphony, etc can be a lot of fun and that resolves the “but I have nowhere to wear it” objection she would likely have.

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    • velma@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As @phailhaus@piefed.social mentioned, it might be good to provide an event for such an outfit to be worn to since it’s been decades since she’s dressed up like this.

      No, it would not be untoward to have her fitted as long as that’s something she would enjoy.

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