<p>DefyingGravity, SDM is not like that, don’t worry. I am sure there are girls there that own such things but it is not like they all do and that is not how they are dressed while at camp. I don’t think there is even time to put on make up before breakfast and rehearsal! </p>
<p>If it makes ya feel any better, my daughter does not own either of those designers or actually ANY designers! I had to even think for a minute what was “LV”? I thought, hmm, Las Vegas? No, I’m dumb…must be Louis Vuitton? Yeah, likely. Ya see, here in my neck of the woods (literally), NO kids own those things. Yeah, my D has heard of those things from being exposed to kids at camp who live where girls own designer this or that. But it is not like everyone at camp comes from such a place or has such things. It does not come up that much there as they are just immersed in theater stuff. They even tend to hang out in dance gear a lot of the day I think. I don’t see kids flaunting this or that. You can’t even necessarily tell who is rich and who is not from just walking around. Yeah, my D has a clue cause she has picked up on what the lifestyles and material things are that some of these kids have that SO contrasted to our community. But this is not a big thing at camp like in the way you are describing at your previous camp. She knows about it and has seen it or visited other areas but kids just bond at camp and this does not interfere. Any fear I had of that back in 1998 when I sent the girls off, was not founded. Kids bond at camp and it does not matter where you come from so much. </p>
<p>I have to say, however, that my D was exposed to things (like designers) from having friends from various backgrounds at camp and it came in handy one time in a funny way. She auditioned for a pilot once in NYC and her sides included some lines where girls were being catty in it and Prada came up in her script, and normally my D would not have had a clue what Prada was, but she had heard of it through kids at camp so she knew. Now, she did not want to let on that she was a VT girl where the designer was more likely to be Birkenstock! In fact, she was seen many times for this part and one time was told to come back and dress more “hip” with her clothes and hair (I’m thinking, yikes, she is not a NYer, ya know?) and we worked on it. She ended up being the final girl for the role in NYC and like the way these things can go, they decided to cast it in LA after that. But I kept joking to her that it was handy that she had gone to a camp where there were girls from NYC and she understood the references to the designers in the script! </p>
<p>By the way, was Lohikan in the Pocono Mountains in PA? I went to overnight camp for ten years growing up (LOVED IT) and there was another camp that shared the same lake and it was called Lohikan and our camp played their camp in sports. My camp was called Pine Forest Camp. Was yours also on Lake Greeley? Funny coincidence, if so. </p>
<p>Susan</p>