Gift Guilt

Don't you hatre when someone gets you something for no reason but you hate it. Well my grandma has a habit of doing this. Every now and then she gets something really awesome but most times it's clothes. Most of the clothes look like a grandma bought them, that doesn't work for a teenager. The main point is that my grandmother just bought me a new dress. It is made of a sundress material and is pretty light weight but it has these buttons at the bottom edge where you can button them and make it have this weird gathered ruffle part just at the bottom. That makes the dress go to just about the middle of my shins, if I undo the buttons it is ankle length. Now highschoolers don't really wear dresseslike this, some do, but not me. My idea was not to get rid of the dress but rather to hem it to a more desirable length, my mother got frusterated with me because she and my grandma spend a lot of time choosing this dress over some other ones..... I don't know what to say other then "I'm sorry you chose wrong?" I just want to trim it, and it was my grandma who bought my surger so I could hem things and she loves whne I sew and make things. In the end I'm not going to wear it like that so I don't understand why I can't fix it.

Now in the end she decided that if I wasn't going to wear it like that then I could fix it so here's the transformation:

Sorry about the messy room, it's a teen thing.

In the end it all worked ou though, my grandma called to say hello and my mom told her about it and when we talked she said she was glad I knew how to alter and fix things so I could fix clothes when I wanted to.