What i don't understand is if they are going to go to all this trouble to buy me 6/7 suits and waste time, effort and money...why can't they just either ask me what i like or just buy 1 decent suit instead of all these suits i will never wear.
The Eid suit she gave me even had a hole on the top of the sleeve and it wasn't MIL's fault but the material was so light it was bound to happen. Then one of the suits she gave me and i opened it in front of her... was so bad that it was stuck together and i had to gently pull it apart without ripping it.
To answer some of your questions.
My MIL doesn't wear very nice clothes herself but occationally wears really nice stuff.
I did not have an arranged marraige.
My MIL only has 3 sons who i must add are extremely well dressed and extremely fashion concious.
Also, i know you will all slate me for being big headed but i know that one of the reasons my MIL loves to show me off to her friends is because of the way i look and dress....her friends always always comment on how nice my clothes are and one of them even asked my MIL if i could take her daughter shopping for her wedding. So bacially MIL knows about the type of clothes i wear.
I know you all are right that i should be grateful and i really love my inlaws...every year for my MIL's birthday i buy her Gold earings, necklace, rings...i only buy gold for her. For her son's i always get them what they want...i ask them what they need.
My MIL wears all the gold i give her and always tells me that her friends were asking where i bought it from...one of them even had the design copied....by the way i've never given my own mum anything like that.
honey..... feelso bad for u... loads of hugs to u :) after readin this post it has become v clear that she is, infact, aware that u dress really well and ur clothes are stylish (and no, atleast i dun think ure big headed cus even i think i dress pretty well cus i match the accessories to shoes beautifully!!). so the qs is, she knows ur standards are high but still gives u cheap stuff... really makes me wonder... cus in my MIL's case i think shes not aware how stylish i m cus honestly, when i m in pak i dun take alot of clothes and shoes etc so i dun wear the best clothes and i HATE changing clothes every single day at home (the norm in pak!) i wear atleast a shalwar kameez for 2 days(unless i m goin somewhere) and then change... i dunno if thaz ok but its me and i think its pretty normal. so my case is different, she wud never realise how stylish i m until her relatives(here in UAE) tell her...( i m sure they have realised i dress v well!)
i dun wanna sound mean... but really, maybe she just wanna piss u off u know! i understand its pure waste of money... but what can we do!
the shockin thing which i found in ur post is that her sons dress pretty well so the standard is infact maintained there! oh well... maybe she buys clothes that she wud buy for herself (read: tacky!) my hubby says that too and i m never in mood to believe that!!!