One night, when Jared was very little, he had a terrible dream - in fact, it was

a nightmare.

In his dream, In his dream, the teeny-the teeny-tiny buttons tiny buttons on his on his pajamas pajamas grew to an grew to an enormous enormous size and he size and he fell, head fell, head first, into first, into one of the one of the holes. holes.

When he When he awoke from awoke from his bad his bad dream, he dream, he decided that decided that he would he would never wear never wear buttons again. buttons again. From that day From that day on, he woreon, he wore

t-shirts. t-shirts.

One day, One day, when Jared when Jared was four, his was four, his mother mother announced announced at breakfast at breakfast that the that the whole family whole family was invited was invited to his to his cousin’s cousin’s wedding. wedding.

She said, She said, “Jared, you “Jared, you are so are so lucky. You lucky. You will get to will get to wear a wear a fancy, new fancy, new shirt with shirt with buttons.”buttons.”

Remembering Remembering his horrible his horrible dream, dream,

Jared Jared hollered,hollered,

““I HATE I HATE BUTTONS!!”BUTTONS!!”

Jared’s Jared’s mothermother

tried to tried to

convince him convince him

that buttons that buttons

were not were not scary.scary.

Jared still Jared still

screamed, screamed,

““I HATEI HATE

BUTTONS!!”BUTTONS!!”

As the As the

wedding wedding

came closer, came closer,

Jared’s mom Jared’s mom

decided to decided to

try some try some

dress shirts dress shirts

that didn’tthat didn’t

have buttons have buttons

On Monday,On Monday,

she brought she brought homehome

a dress shirt witha dress shirt with

a zipper. a zipper.

But when she But when she

zipped upzipped up

the zipper, the zipper,

she went too highshe went too high

and pinched and pinched Jared’s chin. Jared’s chin.

Jared cried, Jared cried,

““I HATE ZIPPERSI HATE ZIPPERS

On Tuesday, On Tuesday, Jared’s dad Jared’s dad brought homebrought home

a dress shirt a dress shirt

with velcro. with velcro.

But when Jared But when Jared undid the shirt, undid the shirt,

the noise wasthe noise was

too loud and too loud and Jared yelled, Jared yelled,

““I HATE VELCRO!!”I HATE VELCRO!!”

On Wednesday,On Wednesday,Jared’s nanaJared’s nanabrought him abrought him adress shirt thatdress shirt thatfastened withfastened withsafety pins. safety pins. When his nanaWhen his nanapinned his shirt,pinned his shirt,She accidentallyShe accidentallypoked him in the poked him in the

chest.chest.““OUCH!!” shoutedOUCH!!” shoutedJared, ‘I HATEJared, ‘I HATESAFETY PINS!!”SAFETY PINS!!”

On Thursday, On Thursday, Jared’s papa Jared’s papa

brought him a brought him a dress shirt dress shirt with strings with strings

attached. But attached. But when all the when all the strings were strings were tied up, Jared tied up, Jared

couldn’t couldn’t breathe. He breathe. He gasped, “I gasped, “I

HATE HATE STRINGS”. STRINGS”.

On FridayOn Friday

morning,morning,

the neighbour the neighbour

rushed overrushed over

with a dresswith a dress

shirt shirt

and did it up and did it up

with clotheswith clothes

pins.pins.

Unfortunately, Unfortunately,

Jared’s mom Jared’s mom thought he was thought he was

clean laundry clean laundry and she hung and she hung him on the him on the clothesline to clothesline to dry. The whole dry. The whole neighbourhood neighbourhood heard Jared heard Jared when he when he shrieked, “I shrieked, “I HATE CLOTHES HATE CLOTHES PINS!!” PINS!!”

So, on Friday So, on Friday

afternoon, afternoon, Jared’s sister, Jared’s sister, Taylor, decided Taylor, decided that she would that she would solve the solve the problem. She problem. She used her dad’s used her dad’s duct tape from duct tape from the workshop the workshop to fasten a to fasten a buttonless buttonless dress shirt.dress shirt.

Jared was fine Jared was fine with this idea, with this idea, until it was until it was time for bed time for bed and no one and no one could get the could get the duct tape off! duct tape off! Hours later, Hours later, when Jared’s when Jared’s father cut off father cut off the shirt, Jared the shirt, Jared hollered, at the hollered, at the top of his top of his lungs, “I HATE lungs, “I HATE DUCT TAPE!!”DUCT TAPE!!”

The dayThe day

of theof the

wedding wedding

was finallywas finally

here. here.

JaredJared

neededneeded

to get to get

dressed.dressed.

So, he So, he quietly quietly

snuck intosnuck into

his closet his closet

and pulled and pulled

out out

a dress a dress shirt. shirt.

To his family’s To his family’s surprise, surprise,

it was notit was not

the shirt the shirt

with zippers. with zippers.

It was not It was not

the shirt the shirt

with velcro. with velcro.

It was not It was not

the shirt the shirt

with safety with safety pins. pins.

It was not It was not the shirt with the shirt with

strings. strings. It was not It was not the shirt with the shirt with

clothes pins. clothes pins. It was not It was not the shirt withthe shirt with duct tape. duct tape. Jared was Jared was

wearing his wearing his dress shirt dress shirt with buttons. with buttons.

The whole The whole

dress shirt dress shirt

dilemma dilemma

made Jaredmade Jared

realize realize

thatthat

buttons buttons

were not were not

so bad so bad

after all.after all.

Jared lookedJared looked

very handsome very handsome

on the day of on the day of

the wedding the wedding

and if youand if you

got close got close enough, you enough, you could could

hear him say,hear him say,

“ “I love buttons.”I love buttons.”

THE ENDTHE END

The DRESS SHIRT DELEMAThe DRESS SHIRT DELEMAis about Jared Colangeli.is about Jared Colangeli.Jared is four years old andJared is four years old andrefuses to wear shirts withrefuses to wear shirts withbuttons. Jared’s mom had abuttons. Jared’s mom had areal problem when her familyreal problem when her familywas invited to a fancy was invited to a fancy

weddingweddingand Jared refused to wear aand Jared refused to wear adress shirt. His mom’s gradedress shirt. His mom’s grade2/3 at John Marshall School2/3 at John Marshall Schoolwrote and illustrated this wrote and illustrated this

storystoryabout Jared. The story wasabout Jared. The story waswritten BEFORE the wedding.written BEFORE the wedding.Although Jared LOVED theAlthough Jared LOVED thestory, he did NOT wear astory, he did NOT wear abuttoned shirt to the wedding.buttoned shirt to the wedding.He wore a “fancy t-shirt”. He wore a “fancy t-shirt”.