BRUH. i work at a kid's resale store. someone brought in a TEN BIN buy today and i volunteered to sort through it. i realized eight out of ten of these bins are Halloween costumes and i think "thank gosh. we need more costumes and i'm the resident costume expert." then i realize that most of these costumes are from Princess Paradise, which is even better!!! that's an expensive, high-quality brand! we have enough costumes here to fill two entire bays and they're all high quality! then i actually look at the costumes. some of them have the actual Princess Paradise neck tag. others have a hand-written neck tag and a sloppy attach job that says "Princess Paradise, a.k.a. Diana Did It Designs." that is, of course, a red flag. i look back at the ones with the Princess Paradise neck tags and realize that, while some of them are high-quality material, a lot of them are cheap Target affairs. some of the neck tags have literally been sewn in to pass off as Princess Paradise. i'm a little hazy on what exactly this scam entails, because it seems like the store is simultaneously making Princess Paradise counterfeits (you know that Brooklyn Nine-Nine episode where a guy tries to sell Baby Gape clothes? not Gap, Gape? it's like that but dumber), but the store name and handwritten neck tags imply that they're also pretending these are hand-made costumes. so i say again: BRUH. my life is in tatters and i work at a legitimate local business that doesn't lie to its customers, and you wasted so much of my fucking time and gave me a killer headache. and not the kind of headache you can sleep off. the kind that comes from either a psychic alien attack or some fundamental part of my personality being broken off. you changed my brain chemistry; you changed my personality. you've broken me. read more