“whenever my relative from the 5towns comes for a simcha we cringe over how she will be dressed.
Haimy: Based on your comments here and elsewhere, I submit there is a reasonable liklhood that when your “5T relative” plans on coming over for a simcha on shabbos, she probably begins having anxiety attacks by Mitvoch or Donershtik. Perhaps your sister-in-law or cousin is a regular CR reader and now understands why the ganz mishpacha stares at her from the time she walk in to the simcha hall and finds she is seated at a “special” table in the kitchen..