Best Dressed

This contains two Lizzie stories based on TV episodes. The stories take place about a year apart, however.

The first story revolves around various categories for Best... for the school's yearbook. Lizzie wants to be the Best Dressed, but the family budget is too tight for her to buy a set of clothes at a particular store. Her mother offers to take Lizzie shopping at a bargain store, but Lizzie decides to use her own money, and money her friends lend her, to get the special outfit.

It turns out has an accident with the special outfit, and the clothes her mother picked out for her turn out to be very popular with the other students.

The second story takes place a year later and centers on Lizzie want to make sure she gets her picture in the yearbook a number of times. Since Kate is the yearbook editor, though, there are going to be problems with Lizzie getting what she wants.

The problem with the second story lies in what the school is doing. The school is going to have Monte Carlo Nite for the kids and, frankly, the whole idea seems so totally unrealistic it's not funny. I don't think any school would have such a type of thing for the kids, especially with the protests that such a nite would draw; centering a night of fun around a gambling theme would not go over well with most parents, I think. In addition, there is some blatant disrespect shown Lizzie's mother, who is a waitress at the nite, that I don't think any mother would tolerate from a student.

The whole second story seems to be really unrealistic in almost every way possible. Probably the single worst Lizzie story I have read.

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