High Fashion

Sarabelle had always been perplexed by people who never wore the same outfit twice, so when she ended up paired with one on a project, she decided some reconnaissance was in order.
“Sorry, be right back,” Mary Beth said when they arrived at her quaint suburban home after school, dropping their backpacks on her neat pink bedspread.
Sarabelle waited until she heard the bathroom door close behind Mary Beth, then crossed the room to the closet and carefully eased open the door.
Compared to the color-coordinated room, the closet was in surprising disarray. There were a few basics on hangers – old t-shirts, some polos, a stained white blouse – and a pair of tennis shoes tossed haphazardly on the floor, mismatched socks still crumpled inside. Beyond the hanging clothes was another door, smooth and silver like the entrance to an elevator. She couldn’t see a handle, but when she touched it, it slid back into the wall soundlessly.
The room beyond was something of a cross between a space ship and a sweat shop. One of the little green men working on a sewing machine saw her and waddled up, tape measure draped around his neck and a few straight pins tucked in his sleeve.
“Hm,” he said, eying her outfit with a raised purple eyebrow. “A skirt over jeans. I have not seen such a pattern of garment before. I will incorporate it into my next design of clothing, which I understand to be the lynchpin of human society, as part of my plan to slowly take over your planet through use of mind-sucking synthetic fabric.”
He turned and waddled away, and the door slid shut.
“Hi! What are you doing?” Mary Beth asked brightly when Sarabelle backed out of the closet. ”Oh! I got a new skirt yesterday, wanna see?”
Spared having to invent an excuse, Sarabelle noted the curious glazed look to Mary Beth’s eyes. “Um… Sure. We should probably start working on that English project, though.”
They got out their notebooks, but Mary Beth did none of the work, instead babbling about clothing.
“I got a cute blouse last week that I think would look really cute on you. Wanna borrow it?”