Part of me loves this time of year, because I get to expand my costuming collection (which is pretty small, granted), but so much of it has degraded into exactly what you described. How am I supposed to find good pieces out of the crap they make women dress in?

LOL, "free". Yeah, I hope he does keep that in mind!

HEE! That's awesome, and it sounds like she managed to have a good birthday regardless of everything else. :D