While women's clothing can also be difficult to pick out, you clearly have never gone shopping with your children; little children and teenagers alike.
They are impossible to agree on styles with and even more impossible to get them to try anything on.
With a teenager specifically, you may actually never agree on anything when it comes to clothes.
Whatever you like, they think is old fashioned, and whatever they like you think is too punk rock (whatever that means).
You can feel it, the migraine is slowly forming around your temples, and now it is spreading to your eyes.
Forget it, you are going to the doctor instead, you feel a sinus infection coming on.
You are not even at your final destination; you are still in the car on the way.
Yes you guessed it; you are taking your teenager shopping.
Oh joy, you're sure it is going to be a most positive experience (that was sarcasm), considering your teen has not said one word to you yet.
She is probably sitting in the back with her head phones blaring some sort of jungle bunny music.
What's wrong with classical anyways? You are done with the lectures; "When I was you age, I never would have gone out of the house like that, my mother would never have let me anyways", or "What is that painted on you?" All the things you promised yourself you would never say after your mother said them.
Well you have said them, but they fall on deaf ears and so it is time for a truce and some compromise.
If you can find at least one thing that you agree on, then you will consider yourself a success.
Well you are at your destination.
You are very tempted to just go straight to the women's clothing and leave your teen alone to her shopping.
But, you would rather get this over with.
Charge straight ahead and keep your cool.
Hear her out but don't be too yielding.
There has got to be something you can find that you can compromise on.
Don't nix things before you hear the other side, and let your impatient teen see that you are patient with her.
Let her pick everything she wants and then gently tell her no to the out of control things.
If however there is something that is not so bad, even if you think it is a drop over the top, but it is just not your taste; you must forgo it for many reasons.
Otherwise she will never have any clothing to wear.
When you do this you will see it is all worth it in the end when she says "Thanks Ma".
New channels will open up for you to swim across you will see.
While shopping for women's clothing is way less stressful than for teenagers; you just need to have an open mind, and a lot of patience.
Take two Tylenol for stress headaches before you go, paste on a smile, and you are golden.