Dallas Divas & Daughters tell us it can be fashionable to have a job

by Sarah Blaskovich

DALLAS — Week four of Dallas Divas & Daughters showed us something we hadn't yet seen on this Dallas debutante show: Teenage girls working. At a job.

Daughters Laura and Hannah are one-time interns for designer David Meister's fashion show at the W Hotel. They got the job hook-up when Hannah's mom, Pamela, pulled some strings for Laura, who wants to be a fashion designer. (Never to be outdone, Pamela chides daughter Hannah to be an intern with Laura. Hannah makes it clear she's never worked a day in her life – and isn't thrilled about starting now.)

The organizer of the event turns the girls' work into a competition, and whoever does the best job gets one-on-one time with Meister. Laura is given the seemingly easy task of greeting people at the front door and sending them to their appropriate seats. Hannah is tasked with manning the curtain as models are quickly dressed and shooed on stage. When the models get behind and the stage is empty during the show, Hannah gets flustered. In the end, Laura gets a quick chat with Meister and Hannah doesn't.

Enter mean comments: “Laura really didn't do that much,” says Pamela. And from Hannah: “I think [Laura] won cuz she's a kiss-ass.”

Pan next to Patricia and Jacky, “the wannabes.” The show pokes fun at them for being on the lower end of high class, or so we're meant to think. Patricia takes Jacky to the shooting range and to a self defense class so she can be prepared for college at the University of North Texas.

Two things not to do, as learned from this segment: One: “When it comes to self-defense, you kick them straight in the testicles,” Patricia tells Jacky. Not true, says their instructor. And two: If somebody's attacking you, where do you shoot them? “Head!” Patricia says again. Don't do that; you could go to jail.

Then Jacky shoots a pink rifle, Patricia shoots an uzi, and we're left feeling like they're purposely carving themselves out as the weird ones.

Lastly, we see daughter Courtney and her sister Danielle try to find a date for mom Cindy. (She's the one with big hair who is trying to find a good guy but keeps dating “losers.”) Courtney and Danielle interview Jack, Loren, and Bob, three candidates for courtship with their mother. They picked Loren -- but only because they had to pick someone -- and we're shown another awkward date between Cindy and a white-gym-shoe-wearing Loren. Courtney calls it brutal, and it is.

We don't get to see much from Kenya and Chanel, the remaining mother-daughter duo, except for when they attended the fashion show at the W. But getting equal face time for five Dallas divas and their five daughters is a lot to cram into a 30-minute segment.

Of note, Dallas landmarks Crooked Tree Coffeehouse, Cru, and a whole lot of camera shots of the W were highlighted in this episode. Up next, the girls have to plan a party and Jacky and Patricia can't come. (They know how to shoot guns now. I wouldn't exclude them.)

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