Aldi Communion dresses €24.99

vektarman

From March 16th.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/aldi-offer-communion-dresses-for-under-25-623757.html

metroburgers

FSM colanders on offer next week!

Woodpecker1

Thats a great idea in fairness.

Im sure there is many families really worrying about these events.

Good move. They have their market fairly well figured out for sure.

Kaizersoze81

Plenty of communion dress shops won't be happy about this. Delighted, they've been ripping people off for long enough.

vicwatson

The whole communion "thing" is a rip off

snubbleste

What about the boys?

uch

Fair play to them

paddydriver

snubbleste wrote: »

What about the boys?

Good deals on lifestylesports.com :pac:

hfallada

The awkward moment when the whole class of girls is wearing the same two dresses.

Jet Black

Problem is trying to get the missus to go for it. Won't even look in dunnes and the like. Sent her that link and she laughed at me.

RayCon

Cue the competitive Pseudo Snobs ...

johnny_adidas

hfallada wrote: »

The awkward moment when the whole class of girls is wearing the same two dresses.

How is that awkward, all the boys wear the same uniforms

beardybrewer

I agree, a girl that age should be plenty pleased they got a nice dress at all. They are such conformists at that age, depending on the school, it's the rich ones who might be the odd ones out when the rest of the class has parents with sense. They look quite nice, in fairness.

Pingi

They are very nice dresses, absolutely nothing wrong with them.

dinnyirwin

Kaizersoze81 wrote: »

Plenty of communion dress shops won't be happy about this. Delighted, they've been ripping people off for long enough.

I went into one of those shops.
She showed me some for €800.
I said "for a communion dress, not a wedding dress".
She then proceeded to show me other communion dresses and stressed "If you want to go CHEAP then our CHEAPEST is €250".

A lot of schools are doing the simple shawl kind of thing now, Stops parents having to feel like they have to compete.

amor3

Jet Black wrote: »

Problem is trying to get the missus to go for it. Won't even look in dunnes and the like. Sent her that link and she laughed at me.

That's the thing, its not the kids, they don't care/know what there wearing, its the parents "keeping up with the Jones"

Electric Sheep

newkie wrote: »

I agree, a girl that age should be plenty pleased they got a nice dress at all. They are such conformists at that age, depending on the school, it's the rich ones who might be the odd ones out when the rest of the class has parents with sense. They look quite nice, in fairness.

IME, it is not the rich ones whose parents lack sense. The biggest spending is usually from the ones who can least afford it. Then they go whinging to the newspapers about how they were "forced" to go to a moneylender to finance the "big day".

January

Electric Sheep wrote: »

IME, it is not the rich ones whose parents lack sense. The biggest spending is usually from the ones who can least afford it. Then they go whinging to the newspapers about how they were "forced" to go to a moneylender to finance the "big day".

'Dey tuk away r comoonun grant Joe, dey forsed us te go te d munny lendrs'

brightkane

I think it should be mandatory to wear school uniforms for communication and confirmation. Less hassel for hard up families. I know some parents wont agree and want wee jonny and mary in the best of clobber and want to show off. Fook them!

Capt'n Midnight

hfallada wrote: »

The awkward moment when the whole class of girls is wearing the same two dresses.

Accessorise

Electric Sheep

brightkane wrote: »

I think it should be mandatory to wear school uniforms for communication and confirmation. Less hassel for hard up families. I know some parents wont agree and want wee jonny and mary in the best of clobber and want to show off. Fook them!

Parents COULD decide to send their kids in the school uniform. There is no obligation to do the big dress up thing. If the majority did that, soon the minority would as well as their kids would not want to be the odd ones out.

Mind you, if there was no "big day" of dress up and party, I bet the vast majority of parents would decide not to bother with First Communion at all.

Redpunto

To be fair tk maxx have had them on sale for under €30, think its a personal thing. Can get some lovely stuff out there for reasonable price if ye want to and go looking as opposed to going to "communion boutique"

Electric Sheep

Redpunto wrote: »

To be fair tk maxx have had them on sale for under €30, think its a personal thing. Can get some lovely stuff out there for reasonable price if ye want to and go looking as opposed to going to "communion boutique"

Someone had a brainwave about the stupidity of parents when they came up with the idea of a communion boutique.

Electric Sheep

MAORISH wrote: »

I think more to the point if FHC preparation was taken out of the schools and the parents had to do all the preparation work it would be very interesting to see how many kids would rock up on the day ?

I remember hearing a Teacher say first confession should be renamed last confession as kids are never taken by the parents again after FHC.

Indeed, it should be taken out of the schools. The main reason for the peer pressure is because the prep is in school. Most parents wouldn't take part if they had to haul the kids to prep outside schools, or make any kind of effort at all.

As for the kids, all they care about is the money they will get, and for the girls, being "princess for a day".

vicwatson

hfallada wrote: »

The awkward moment when the whole class of girls is wearing the same two dresses.

Awkward for whom? The Parents :rolleyes:

Red Nissan

hfallada wrote: »

The awkward moment when the whole class of girls is wearing the same two dresses.

My thoughts exactly.

Red Nissan

vicwatson wrote: »

Awkward for whom? The Parents :rolleyes:

You're not a girl, are you?

vicwatson

Red Nissan wrote: »

You're not a girl, are you?

All this "communion" stuff is not about the children (or dare I say it, god/belief in catholic church, either) - it's always about the parents wanting their little Susie to look like she's getting married and to be individual, yet they are infact not a bit individual they are just like little sheep prancing up the aisle.

I'd say 75% of people putting their children forward for "communion" don't go to mass on a regular basis, hypocrites !

Suppose it's for another thread, though this thread's wheels fell off a couple of pages back.

Red Nissan

johnny_adidas wrote: »

How is that awkward, all the boys wear the same uniforms

It's a manly thing to wear the same stuff.

vicwatson

Great Bargain though OP, nice 1 but I'm out !!

Red Nissan

vicwatson wrote: »

All this "communion" .

For another thread perhaps, I'm an atheist too, but it's about ALDI's cheap cloths for an occasion, be that the beach, night time, garden wear, work wear or religious service wear.