Ariana S.

You're on instagram and see an ad for a really cute, vintage style dress, for a stupidly fair bargain and it's not so cheap that you're in doubt.
You visit the website and everything is basically up to par. Maybe you'll give yourself a little extra room and order a size up, just in case. Oh, and that sweater is adorable too, throw that in. It's a one size deal so you're gonna have to take what you can get.
Track with the Shop app.
And then you see it is shipping from mainland China. Oops. Now you have to investigate. Gosh there are some whiners out there. Someone ordered two days ago and is losing her mind because she hasn't gotten a tracking update in 5 hrs. I mean...it is coming FROM CHINA. But fast fashion junkies cut no slack. Ok. You decide not to worry about the shipping. Your order is on a boat, or a plane, or a weather balloon. Whatever.
It hits the ground in, like, Nebraska and is delivered the day after Thanksgiving. Amazing. From radio silence to sudden delivery. Great.
Now it's time to try it on. The dress seems a better deal than the sweater.

You're not sure what the sweater is made of exactly but it probably wasn't worth $40. It's soft...too soft. Too synthetic. Suspicious. But the world is a pretty decent place if you can be peeved by overly soft fabric.
The plastic buttons are a little sad. What ever happened to tin? The embroidery seems to have been lazily done (or the soul doing it is overworked and under paid). No embroidery is better than the rather anemic amount of thread they used on this thing.

The dress is a better deal but somehow it's both too tight and too loose. It seems like someone was guessing at what a woman's shape was instead of just following a pattern. The buttons pull in the bust and your boobs arent even that big AND you ordered a size up. That's too bad.

Should you return it? You heard the return process was a bundle of fun. Maybe you'll hang onto it and try to lose some weight up top instead. Luckily it wasn't THAT expensive and you've been trying to drop a couple of pounds anyway. Maybe this will add to the motivation.
So you pile it on the heap in your bedroom because you're not proud of it enough to hang it up with your other clothes just yet and you want to ignore it for now.

P.s. The picture provided is overly bright due to lighting. The dress was true to color as shown on the website.

No my dress didn't come torn.

The dress was surprisingly decent quality; a little on the loose end but I prefer a little bit of space.

The shoes on the other hand were a bit odd. I ordered a size 9 and as that is the largest size they have, I was a little concerned that they might be too small. However they were actually a bit too big.
The buckle was rather strange too. Not an ordinary clasp buckle, it had a strange hooking element. I'm not sure if the buckle set up is is supposed to be historically accurate (1950s)… that would explain some things, but I would still prefer an ordinary shoe buckle set up.
The T strap of the shoe was too big. The part that goes around the ankle, with the buckle, could be fixed easily by adding holes oneself. However, the part of the T strap, going down the center over the foot, was also too long and I'm not sure if it would be an easy fix.

I feel like it may not be worth sending back the shoes and waiting for them to ship new shoes as it took long enough for the package to get here, and the packaging itself was rather shoddy.

I should add that I am a size 9US women's and the and that sometimes I'm nearly 9.5 to10 in shoe size depending on the company/shoe type and these were still too big.

NOTE: The shipping time did not trouble me, considering I did read what the site said, and they dutifully explained that packages could take up to a month. Shipping can take some time, depending on what your order. My shoes did make it before the dress, and they held the shoes at the nearest shipping facility until the dress had arrived.