Once upon a time...

Once upon a time, there was a girl. She was short, kinda fat, her hair was saturated in grease, and her face was somewhat a mountain rage. The only thing the poor child had going for her were these enormous blue eyes rimmed in thick, long lashes, but no one ever got the chance to spot them, since their disgust of her appearance frightened any party away. This girl had no friends, shunned by everyone but her mum and dad. Even her elder brother could not set his eyes upon her.

But then, one day, after crying her eyes out, her mother arrived home with a brown bag.

"Open it," the mother says, "It's a present from me."

The girl shook her head, too ashamed to accept any love from anyone. She was a failure. She didn't deserve her mother’s love.

But all the other kids were playing in the street. After a while the tears dried up, and her eyes were red and puffy. The other kids' laughter rung in her ears, leaving her lonely and sad.

So the girl leaned over to where her mother had left the brown packet. Reluctantly she dragged open the sticky tape, to discover underneath a glossy book that read: Vogue.

Intrigued the girl begun to look inside this glossy book called Vogue. She began to find herself fascinated with the delightful colours and beautiful women. This fascination flourished into an addiction, until one day, she approached her mother with an unfamiliar smile.

"Mother," the girl inquired, "I'd like to go shopping."

The mother was so gleeful she bought plenty of dresses and skirts for her daughter wearing her credit card rather thin. But the mother didn't care; her daughter was smiling.

When they arrived home, the girl threw on a lovely dress and added some lip-gloss. She skipped out of the house in her new clothes and right into the middle of the street where the other kids played.

"Who's that?" one boy said.

"Yeah, who are you?" another said.

“That girl has very pretty eyes,” said someone else.

The girl simply smiled. She told them who she was. The other kids were shocked at first, but after giving the girl a chance, the kids began to realise that the girl was very funny and nice.

From that day on, all the kids liked her, and she always loved clothes. Vogue was her bible.