Shopping And Faking: I Ordered 3 Outfits From A Store I Saw On FB, And The Result Almost Made Me Cry
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Yes, it happened to me too. While scrolling through Facebook, I stumbled upon a website ad. Nothing could go wrong: the website looked trustworthy and the photos of the clothes were so breathtaking that I couldn’t help but imagine me being one of those gorgeous women nonchalantly walking down NY streets and making passerby’s heads turn. Well, I must admit, extremely appealing and almost unimaginable prices should have made me suspicious. But come on, I’m just a human!
So, I loaded my online shopping bag with various clothes and… waited.
Item no. 1 – picture on the website
I’d been waiting for more than a month before my long-awaited parcels arrived. Personally, I’m used to elegant parcels, packed in separate boxes so that the items inside remain undamaged. Only after I’d seen a shabby, wrapped in kilometers of duct tape carton did I realize that something is wrong.
What should I start with? First and foremost, the clothes I received didn’t match their description on the website. Their length, width, silhouette, material, and, last but not least – design – almost everything was wrong. The clothes, advertised as linen, silk or cotton, turned out to be made of the cheapest synthetic fabric possible.
Item no. 1 – what I received. Ouch!
Then I tried the clothes on. No, I’m not the one to boast about my shape, nor am I the one whom all clothes fit like a glove, but I never thought I could look SO BAD. Staring at my reflection in the mirror, I was confused whether I should cry or laugh. Luckily for myself, I went for the latter.
Item no. 1 after styling
When I finally stopped laughing, it dawned on me that in rare cases only can you laugh in such situations. I made a firm decision to transform these rags into wearable clothes in a couple of hours, using a couple of styling tricks. Hope they’ll come in handy for some of you and will help you avoid the bad emotions I experienced:
1. Iron the clothes carefully. You won’t believe what kind of wonders this good old trick does.
2. Wear suitable underwear while trying new clothes on. Handpicked, based on your size underwear or (even better) shapewear helps you take advantage of seeming disadvantages of the clothes you are wearing.
Item no. 2 – picture on the website
Item no. 2 – what I received. Ouch again!
Item no. 2 after styling
3. If needed, just cut the excess material off with scissors or pin it up and hide it under other clothes. Layer.
4. Feel free to change the function of clothing. If you bought a linen beach dress but got a bag-like tunic instead, let it protect you from wind on a chilly fall morning.
5. Give some thought to your accessories. Carefully matched with clothing accessories make the look visually tidier. Even though it’s not trendy to match all accessories anymore, in this very case it makes sense to use this old method and match everything – from your earrings to your shoes (have you forgotten that you already have a detail that stands out?)
Item no. 3 – picture on the website
Item no. 3 – what I received. One more ouch…
Item no. 3 after styling
6. Combine cheaper clothes with more expensive ones – and, voila! – you’re following one of the latest fashion trends – mix & match.
7. Don’t underestimate the power of your makeup. It’s a must to strike a balance between “untidy” and “tidy” things.
8. Never ever lose a chance to laugh at yourself and a silly situation. After all, aren’t there more important things in our life than some toggery?
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But you can make any item of clothing look bad depending on your stance, bare feet, lack of makeup and messy hair..
Yup, totally agree. She went out of her way to make them and herself look bad.
@ Molly Block- oh my goodness there was NO reason to be NASTY and PERSONAL in YOUR reply to Birdhouse. (see what I did there with the caps?) Go take a few deep breaths and ask yourself why you felt the need to be such a shrew over this lame post of obvious & shameless self promotion. Throwing a jacket over something she managed to iron does not make the OP a stylist.
lol .. Molly.. I didn't even notice she put on makeup until your giant rant- that's a good point, why did she need to put on make up to display an outfit?
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If having no makeup on is 'going out of one's way to make oneself look bad' then I imagine that when every one of us wakes up, we look like sh*t! (At least to YOU!) My point is, makeup doesn't make you beautiful, but it helps to enhance your already pretty features. If going without makeup makes ME look bad, then SO DO YOU without makeup! Your commend, birdhouse, was not just insulting to her, but to every person who doesn't feel like putting on makeup. To every person who just wants to relax on a day off and go natural and carefree, makeup free! SHAME ON YOU BIRDHOUSE!!! I guess you didn't realize your comment could cut so deep! EVERYONE is BEAUTIFUL just as they are! No. Makeup. Needed!! Agne Jagelaviciute, kudos to you! You are beautiful without makeup. Your attitude is beautiful! And you chose the right path--to not cry, but to laugh in the face of an online store purchase FAIL! You WIN!! :-D
...and not ironing
Very true! On the last one you can tell that she did not even zip the dress up! That's why its so slouchy. Very deceiving this post.
No way she would get a dress in that type of fabric on without a zipper @Molly
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I don't see a zipper. Maybe you have bionic eyes and can see through her body to the rear-side, but I don't.
Came here for this comment. I couldn't not observe the fact that her stance and facial expressions (+ intentional lack of makeup) were on purpose to make the clothes look worse, even though the post itself can be useful.
That doesn't change how it drapes, how the fabric often isn't even the same as pictured, how the neckline is cut completely differently than pictured, etc.
Even so, her stance and the way she just flops them on her with no care in the before pics make them look way worse than they actually are
i agree, but both the fabric AND color was dramatically different.
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Obviously you nor 90 percent of the other people commenting here have a clue about nice fabrics. Silk, cotton or linen don't look, drape, press or feel even vaguely similar to polyester.
You used different lighting and your stuff is wrinkled.
Check out her comment in the first example: "1. Iron the clothes carefully. You won’t believe what kind of wonders this good old trick does." I think everyone knows what ironing is! This isn't a "trick", it's a basic step in preparing your clothes before you wear them! What's her next insider tip - Wear a belt if your pants are too loose?
Why would you wear a wrinkled up outfit anyway? Lol
my first thought was that was straight out of the packaging most items need ironing lol
I'm amazed at how many people don't know how to iron or don't even own an iron these days. I see people walking around looking like unmade beds all the time now!
This is a desperate attempt to show off her restyling "talent". I've seen bad examples of advert vs. product, and these look great, honestly.
Oh my goodness yes! This is the OP's shameless attempt at self promotion, throwing a jacket over everything isn't innovative or a style tip.
The first two actually look decent, maybe the way you were standing didn't let us get a proper view of the clothes? The second one actually looked fine, you just needed to iron the sleeves and fix the collar.
I mean.....they all looked the way that they were supposed to one they had been ironed/steamed
Wow, if you buy clothes online and then have a weird stance, are barefoot, don't wear any makeup or do your hair, it's gonna look bad. Guys I'm shocked...
Cat Lover.. that doesn't even make sense... the point was that the OP DID put all of that stuff on to show "styling" the outfit
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A lot of us don't like wearing shoes inside. Also sometimes we don't wear makeup ALL THE TIME EVERY DAY. Sometimes we like to relax without shoes or makeup. We also dont always brush our hair. Jeez how about you see this from our eyes for once.
She bought the wrong sizes and/or did not put them on properly. The last one is high waisted, as seen on the model, - and on her, after she "fixed" it. Also all the bad pictures are done with deliberate bad lighting, bad poses and styling (bare feet, messy hair etc.). She's unjustly trashing the company and undeservedly crediting herself. The entire post is pointless and ridiculous.
Agreed. She deliberately tried to make them look bad. From the title I was expecting the items she received to be completely different but they were pretty much the same as the original pictures. I've seen far worse results where the styles, colours, patterns are completely different.
Of course if you put them on when they are not ironed and look like rags it does not make them look good
This is the most ridiculous article on self promotion I've ever seen. Good try.
you should have iron them for the before picture too, it looks like all the before pictures are just thrown on after you took them out of the packaging.
I do agree with this.
I'm really trying not to be that guy but she's just ironed her clothes and put make-up on in the 3rd pictures.
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That's exactly what she wrote.
Oh I see, I did not read beyond the headline, my bad. Have an upvote.
If you want to see some impressive restyling, look up the BP article from a few months ago, where the lady bought thrift store clothes and restyled them. Now that's talent. Her name is sarahtyau and she has a website. Worth checking out.
i loved her article when it first came out!!
She and her daughters are adorable.
Or you can skip buying fast fashion garbage that only perpetrates the waste cycle and human abuse cycle.
YES THANK YOU
Whoa what?! If you do your laundry and make a minimal effort to accessorize you mean you can make cheap clothes look good!? What a stupid post.
this just in: ironed clothes in professional photos looks better than wrinkled clothes in bad pose & lighting
OK. I've said this before, but I'll say it again. These are ripoffs of fashion designs as made by cheap-ass Chinese companies. The tipoff? For one thing, the fact that they always cut the models' faces out of the photos. They use shitty fabrics and underpaid workers in sweatshop conditions, and people around the world continue to fall for their scams. How to avoid them? Do a quick Google search on any company you are considering buying something from and the truth will come out.
Good advice, Gwinevere.
Is she promoting a website or an Instagram or something, this is so not posting worthy?
I don't see much difference between the shop photos and the actual photos. Colours are always enhanced with lightning or are shown in their most favourable looking pic. I don't see the purpose of this post
Don't know about the site she bought from but sites I use always draw attention to the fact that the colours will appear different on individual computers so they can't guarantee your purchase won't be a slightly different shade.
I just wasted 2 minutes of my life, and im not picky. Wearing fur also sucks extremely. Im gonna look at at the wall now to see something more interesting.
Look i think you're exaggerating, those 3 clothes look just fine it just need ironing imho.
Note to self: NEVER purchase anything, EVER, that cannot be returned. Especially from a random website.
So you put on a coat on to cover them up and all is fine? Another stable genius
Let me guess - you bought these on a site like 'Wish' for $20 or something close to it. You expected high quality fabrics and cuts for next to nothing. 99% of these sites steal pictures from elsewhere, make their own patterns, and use the cheapest fabrics - not to mention the cheapest labor. With clothes, you get what you pay for. If you want nice clothes, pay what they are worth.
A few really good tipps from her, if you try something on and your first thought is "No way!" and you feel like putting it into the darkest corner of your wardrobe. Iron it, combine it with other stuff, put on makeup, nice shoes... don't just throw it away. This will only make you feel bad. But it will make you feel even better, if you manage to make something, that didn't look good first, look great after a few simple changes. And yes: There are a lot of people who need to be reminded of such things.
Good comment, Sei.
The colors you see under your crappy orange/green/blue lighting at home drastically affect how colors appear compared to professional taken in with proper white balance correction.
What is wrong with her feet/shoes in look 2 after styling? I spent a good couple of minutes staring saying "huh? what? huh?" -is she wearing baggy jeans under a maxi length dress? -is she wearing weird boots? -WTH? Her feet remind me of the Goat things hooves in Pans Labyrinth
The model is a size 00. You are not. And you also put the clothes on right out of the package. Heard of an iron? Plus you went out of your way to look frumpy and not in a model pose as the picture shows
Amazing what hiding most of the garment under a huge cardi can do eh?
so... you buy three ugly dresses online, they're still ugly when they arrive, and you make them look awesome... Not sure why you "almost cried" when you knew you were buying garbage. But seriously, kudos to you turning them into something beautiful regardless.
I actually liked her take on all 3 better than how they originally appeared on their "website" (I never trust websites advertised on FB). Good for her!
This woman really pulls off the look of a longer coat/jacket and shorter skirt, but I have to ask: Do her fingernails shine like justice?
Yeah, but her name's Agne, not Kitty or Karen.
You can ask at Citibank when she borrows your pen.
Can't comment on materials from pics obviously but the first 2 look like same dressing gowns on her that they look on models - something you'd wear at home after taking a bath. Suppose if she really wants to wear them in public all those accessories and stuff work, but to me they be don't even look like they were ever made for that. That lady dress just looks weird on her and on model(albeit in different ways). *shrugs*
*That last dress
Infuriated by some of the comments here, claiming, she just posed badly in the first pictures to make the clothes look bad.... the quality of the advertised outfits versus the actual pieces are worlds apart: 1st outfit: peach coloured tie-up dress in crepe de chine - delivered in a pig pink polyester 2nd outfit: cotton smock in red linen with ethnic embroidery and wool tassels and fringes - delivered was a printed satin smock with polyester trimmings 3rd outfit: trumpet arm top in heavy satin and a high waist skirt in cotton with woven (!) ethnic pattern - delivered thin satin top and a shirt made from cheaply printed satin in the same quality as the top. This was false advertising to the max and yet she managed to pull it around and make those sad pieces look great! source: I work in luxury fashion for the last 15 years, specialised in surface design, weaving and printing
Therefore they look worse if you don't wear shoes, no hair styling, no make up.
The take away from this is, whatever you buy, cover it up with a big coat.
meh
Everyone else has great opinions on this, I'd just like to add that it also seems like she got exactly what she paid for with her own shape & body type/size. You can't look at a stick thin size 0 and expect to look exactly the same in the same style of clothing when you're a hippy size 10.
WTH is the shoe with number 2?
Just add some fur and you'll look stunning, you fools! (First outfit) nothing better than a dead animal to hide your poor choice in internet shopping >:(
So, you basically just ironed and put on make up ? Okay...
Item 1. The picture looks like it is done up with some sort of windsor knot or something (which I imagine would gather in more of the cord creating a better silhouette?), she's just done it in a bow like a dressing gown
Good tips but at the end of the day you got scammed. These sites from China pop up like poisonous spores. They steal images from legit sites like Free People or Hello Molly and make replicas without informing the consumer. After enough complaints are made, they disappear and come back with a new name. We have a Facebook group that monitors for these scams. Anyone can join and it has good tips on who to avoid and how to get your money back https://www.facebook.com/groups/ifitstoogoodtobetrue/
honestly, those dresses were hideous on the website pictures already XD however. ironing and wearing suitable underwear/shapewear is a suggestion everyone should follow all the time - it really makes a big deal of difference! i can see she tried her best in styling those dresses but... poor fabric and poor finishing can be only concealed in pictures. i bet she can't actually wear them for "events" - i'm sure i would not!
why not save up money to buy something that's actually good quality, was not made with toxic dyes and people who maid it were paid a decent ammount of money? or go thrift shopping, check donation groups, websites, there are sooo many ways of spending less on clothes without fueling the fast fashion industry. And common... make up? really???
If they sent you the wrong one the first time, why did you keep ordering from them???
Yup!
you wore makeup in first pic and didn't in the second pic.....pretty obvious when you're purposely making the first pic look bad in comparison
Lighting and a good photographer make all the difference.
baggy jeans under the tunic??
I couldn't stop looking at the model's shoes on the first picture. All I could think was, my feet would hurt, and my ankles would forever have the imprint of the laces. lol
First one too big even after adjusting - you can see that it is folded. Second one is to be worn over bikini or as dressing gown. Third one is too small over hips and you can't hide it even with a coat.
The first one looks pretty good in the end - shame about the fabric not being as stated. Personally, I would not buy unbranded clothing online or a brand I hadn't worn before, however good it looked in the photo (they have a way of making poor quality items look amazing) My shape is so difficult that 9/10 of things I try on in shops don't even fit, so sadly have no chance online.
I don't buy clothes that I can't try on.
I only order from verified sites that also have retail stores so I know the quality of the things I'm buying.
Wish I could mail her all my shopping mistakes and her male me back some awesome clothes
she's amazing at restyling. If I were her I'd buy all the cheapest crappiest pieces and just magic *** restyle* them beatiful
I hope you're being facetious Val. "Amazing at restyling"? She ironed the outfits and threw a jacket over them, nothing amazing about any of these so called re-stylings.
You look great!! I think you did a great job, especially with the first outfit. And I don't think you went out of your way to make yourself look bad, like others here have said. You were just showing us the power of makeup. You look fabulous!!
Love that last outfit with black coat and boots.
Honestly you're a very beautiful woman comparing yourself to a photo that's obviously been staged. In the end you looked better than the FB post.
You guys clearly have NO IDEA that the models used in the photos for the online stores have on haute' couture. Do you know what that means? It means that the fabric was cut, draped, pinned on to the model...then measured, then cut again and sewn so that it perfectly fits the model! You clearly cannot blame her 'stance' or her 'pose' or how she intentionally or unintentionally did this or that! You hating commenters with such obvious low self esteem, who wish to put down anyone who looks nice are such cutthroat b*tches! You can't stand it that she made a bad clothing purchase into a glamorous clothing purchase! You cannot wrap your head around the fact that she made the best of the situation! You should all be ashamed of yourselves!
Holds up mirror: "hating commenters with such obvious low self esteem, who wish to put down anyone who looks nice are such cutthroat b*tches! " Molly, do you not see yourself in your own comment? Do you realize how absolutely insane your virulence in this thread makes you about to be? And it's YOU who doesn't know the meaning of haute couture, what you described is bespoke clothing, not couture. You don't have to attack people over a piece of blatant self-promotion that -oh surprise!- got called out as a piece of blatant self promotion. If you want to see some true re-styling talent reference Bus Lady's post about Sarahtyau and go check out her instagram. The OP is no stylist, the second outfit proves that point.
Calm down, Molly. Go look at some comics.
Someone has to step up!
Her figure is not like the Models figure- that is pretty much it.. .
She has beautiful taste! The before and after pix are amazing!
Oy vey. I feel terrible for you. This happened to me when I ordered my prom dress on Amazon. That was the worst 200 bucks I'd ever spent.
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Kudos for making the best of a Trumped up situation....
But you can make any item of clothing look bad depending on your stance, bare feet, lack of makeup and messy hair..
Yup, totally agree. She went out of her way to make them and herself look bad.
@ Molly Block- oh my goodness there was NO reason to be NASTY and PERSONAL in YOUR reply to Birdhouse. (see what I did there with the caps?) Go take a few deep breaths and ask yourself why you felt the need to be such a shrew over this lame post of obvious & shameless self promotion. Throwing a jacket over something she managed to iron does not make the OP a stylist.
lol .. Molly.. I didn't even notice she put on makeup until your giant rant- that's a good point, why did she need to put on make up to display an outfit?
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If having no makeup on is 'going out of one's way to make oneself look bad' then I imagine that when every one of us wakes up, we look like sh*t! (At least to YOU!) My point is, makeup doesn't make you beautiful, but it helps to enhance your already pretty features. If going without makeup makes ME look bad, then SO DO YOU without makeup! Your commend, birdhouse, was not just insulting to her, but to every person who doesn't feel like putting on makeup. To every person who just wants to relax on a day off and go natural and carefree, makeup free! SHAME ON YOU BIRDHOUSE!!! I guess you didn't realize your comment could cut so deep! EVERYONE is BEAUTIFUL just as they are! No. Makeup. Needed!! Agne Jagelaviciute, kudos to you! You are beautiful without makeup. Your attitude is beautiful! And you chose the right path--to not cry, but to laugh in the face of an online store purchase FAIL! You WIN!! :-D
...and not ironing
Very true! On the last one you can tell that she did not even zip the dress up! That's why its so slouchy. Very deceiving this post.
No way she would get a dress in that type of fabric on without a zipper @Molly
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I don't see a zipper. Maybe you have bionic eyes and can see through her body to the rear-side, but I don't.
Came here for this comment. I couldn't not observe the fact that her stance and facial expressions (+ intentional lack of makeup) were on purpose to make the clothes look worse, even though the post itself can be useful.
That doesn't change how it drapes, how the fabric often isn't even the same as pictured, how the neckline is cut completely differently than pictured, etc.
Even so, her stance and the way she just flops them on her with no care in the before pics make them look way worse than they actually are
i agree, but both the fabric AND color was dramatically different.
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Obviously you nor 90 percent of the other people commenting here have a clue about nice fabrics. Silk, cotton or linen don't look, drape, press or feel even vaguely similar to polyester.
You used different lighting and your stuff is wrinkled.
Check out her comment in the first example: "1. Iron the clothes carefully. You won’t believe what kind of wonders this good old trick does." I think everyone knows what ironing is! This isn't a "trick", it's a basic step in preparing your clothes before you wear them! What's her next insider tip - Wear a belt if your pants are too loose?
Why would you wear a wrinkled up outfit anyway? Lol
my first thought was that was straight out of the packaging most items need ironing lol
I'm amazed at how many people don't know how to iron or don't even own an iron these days. I see people walking around looking like unmade beds all the time now!
This is a desperate attempt to show off her restyling "talent". I've seen bad examples of advert vs. product, and these look great, honestly.
Oh my goodness yes! This is the OP's shameless attempt at self promotion, throwing a jacket over everything isn't innovative or a style tip.
The first two actually look decent, maybe the way you were standing didn't let us get a proper view of the clothes? The second one actually looked fine, you just needed to iron the sleeves and fix the collar.
I mean.....they all looked the way that they were supposed to one they had been ironed/steamed
Wow, if you buy clothes online and then have a weird stance, are barefoot, don't wear any makeup or do your hair, it's gonna look bad. Guys I'm shocked...
Cat Lover.. that doesn't even make sense... the point was that the OP DID put all of that stuff on to show "styling" the outfit
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A lot of us don't like wearing shoes inside. Also sometimes we don't wear makeup ALL THE TIME EVERY DAY. Sometimes we like to relax without shoes or makeup. We also dont always brush our hair. Jeez how about you see this from our eyes for once.
She bought the wrong sizes and/or did not put them on properly. The last one is high waisted, as seen on the model, - and on her, after she "fixed" it. Also all the bad pictures are done with deliberate bad lighting, bad poses and styling (bare feet, messy hair etc.). She's unjustly trashing the company and undeservedly crediting herself. The entire post is pointless and ridiculous.
Agreed. She deliberately tried to make them look bad. From the title I was expecting the items she received to be completely different but they were pretty much the same as the original pictures. I've seen far worse results where the styles, colours, patterns are completely different.
Of course if you put them on when they are not ironed and look like rags it does not make them look good
This is the most ridiculous article on self promotion I've ever seen. Good try.
you should have iron them for the before picture too, it looks like all the before pictures are just thrown on after you took them out of the packaging.
I do agree with this.
I'm really trying not to be that guy but she's just ironed her clothes and put make-up on in the 3rd pictures.
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That's exactly what she wrote.
Oh I see, I did not read beyond the headline, my bad. Have an upvote.
If you want to see some impressive restyling, look up the BP article from a few months ago, where the lady bought thrift store clothes and restyled them. Now that's talent. Her name is sarahtyau and she has a website. Worth checking out.
i loved her article when it first came out!!
She and her daughters are adorable.
Or you can skip buying fast fashion garbage that only perpetrates the waste cycle and human abuse cycle.
YES THANK YOU
Whoa what?! If you do your laundry and make a minimal effort to accessorize you mean you can make cheap clothes look good!? What a stupid post.
this just in: ironed clothes in professional photos looks better than wrinkled clothes in bad pose & lighting
OK. I've said this before, but I'll say it again. These are ripoffs of fashion designs as made by cheap-ass Chinese companies. The tipoff? For one thing, the fact that they always cut the models' faces out of the photos. They use shitty fabrics and underpaid workers in sweatshop conditions, and people around the world continue to fall for their scams. How to avoid them? Do a quick Google search on any company you are considering buying something from and the truth will come out.
Good advice, Gwinevere.
Is she promoting a website or an Instagram or something, this is so not posting worthy?
I don't see much difference between the shop photos and the actual photos. Colours are always enhanced with lightning or are shown in their most favourable looking pic. I don't see the purpose of this post
Don't know about the site she bought from but sites I use always draw attention to the fact that the colours will appear different on individual computers so they can't guarantee your purchase won't be a slightly different shade.
I just wasted 2 minutes of my life, and im not picky. Wearing fur also sucks extremely. Im gonna look at at the wall now to see something more interesting.
Look i think you're exaggerating, those 3 clothes look just fine it just need ironing imho.
Note to self: NEVER purchase anything, EVER, that cannot be returned. Especially from a random website.
So you put on a coat on to cover them up and all is fine? Another stable genius
Let me guess - you bought these on a site like 'Wish' for $20 or something close to it. You expected high quality fabrics and cuts for next to nothing. 99% of these sites steal pictures from elsewhere, make their own patterns, and use the cheapest fabrics - not to mention the cheapest labor. With clothes, you get what you pay for. If you want nice clothes, pay what they are worth.
A few really good tipps from her, if you try something on and your first thought is "No way!" and you feel like putting it into the darkest corner of your wardrobe. Iron it, combine it with other stuff, put on makeup, nice shoes... don't just throw it away. This will only make you feel bad. But it will make you feel even better, if you manage to make something, that didn't look good first, look great after a few simple changes. And yes: There are a lot of people who need to be reminded of such things.
Good comment, Sei.
The colors you see under your crappy orange/green/blue lighting at home drastically affect how colors appear compared to professional taken in with proper white balance correction.
What is wrong with her feet/shoes in look 2 after styling? I spent a good couple of minutes staring saying "huh? what? huh?" -is she wearing baggy jeans under a maxi length dress? -is she wearing weird boots? -WTH? Her feet remind me of the Goat things hooves in Pans Labyrinth
The model is a size 00. You are not. And you also put the clothes on right out of the package. Heard of an iron? Plus you went out of your way to look frumpy and not in a model pose as the picture shows
Amazing what hiding most of the garment under a huge cardi can do eh?
so... you buy three ugly dresses online, they're still ugly when they arrive, and you make them look awesome... Not sure why you "almost cried" when you knew you were buying garbage. But seriously, kudos to you turning them into something beautiful regardless.
I actually liked her take on all 3 better than how they originally appeared on their "website" (I never trust websites advertised on FB). Good for her!
This woman really pulls off the look of a longer coat/jacket and shorter skirt, but I have to ask: Do her fingernails shine like justice?
Yeah, but her name's Agne, not Kitty or Karen.
You can ask at Citibank when she borrows your pen.
Can't comment on materials from pics obviously but the first 2 look like same dressing gowns on her that they look on models - something you'd wear at home after taking a bath. Suppose if she really wants to wear them in public all those accessories and stuff work, but to me they be don't even look like they were ever made for that. That lady dress just looks weird on her and on model(albeit in different ways). *shrugs*
*That last dress
Infuriated by some of the comments here, claiming, she just posed badly in the first pictures to make the clothes look bad.... the quality of the advertised outfits versus the actual pieces are worlds apart: 1st outfit: peach coloured tie-up dress in crepe de chine - delivered in a pig pink polyester 2nd outfit: cotton smock in red linen with ethnic embroidery and wool tassels and fringes - delivered was a printed satin smock with polyester trimmings 3rd outfit: trumpet arm top in heavy satin and a high waist skirt in cotton with woven (!) ethnic pattern - delivered thin satin top and a shirt made from cheaply printed satin in the same quality as the top. This was false advertising to the max and yet she managed to pull it around and make those sad pieces look great! source: I work in luxury fashion for the last 15 years, specialised in surface design, weaving and printing
Therefore they look worse if you don't wear shoes, no hair styling, no make up.
The take away from this is, whatever you buy, cover it up with a big coat.
meh
Everyone else has great opinions on this, I'd just like to add that it also seems like she got exactly what she paid for with her own shape & body type/size. You can't look at a stick thin size 0 and expect to look exactly the same in the same style of clothing when you're a hippy size 10.
WTH is the shoe with number 2?
Just add some fur and you'll look stunning, you fools! (First outfit) nothing better than a dead animal to hide your poor choice in internet shopping >:(
So, you basically just ironed and put on make up ? Okay...
Item 1. The picture looks like it is done up with some sort of windsor knot or something (which I imagine would gather in more of the cord creating a better silhouette?), she's just done it in a bow like a dressing gown
Good tips but at the end of the day you got scammed. These sites from China pop up like poisonous spores. They steal images from legit sites like Free People or Hello Molly and make replicas without informing the consumer. After enough complaints are made, they disappear and come back with a new name. We have a Facebook group that monitors for these scams. Anyone can join and it has good tips on who to avoid and how to get your money back https://www.facebook.com/groups/ifitstoogoodtobetrue/
honestly, those dresses were hideous on the website pictures already XD however. ironing and wearing suitable underwear/shapewear is a suggestion everyone should follow all the time - it really makes a big deal of difference! i can see she tried her best in styling those dresses but... poor fabric and poor finishing can be only concealed in pictures. i bet she can't actually wear them for "events" - i'm sure i would not!
why not save up money to buy something that's actually good quality, was not made with toxic dyes and people who maid it were paid a decent ammount of money? or go thrift shopping, check donation groups, websites, there are sooo many ways of spending less on clothes without fueling the fast fashion industry. And common... make up? really???
If they sent you the wrong one the first time, why did you keep ordering from them???
Yup!
you wore makeup in first pic and didn't in the second pic.....pretty obvious when you're purposely making the first pic look bad in comparison
Lighting and a good photographer make all the difference.
baggy jeans under the tunic??
I couldn't stop looking at the model's shoes on the first picture. All I could think was, my feet would hurt, and my ankles would forever have the imprint of the laces. lol
First one too big even after adjusting - you can see that it is folded. Second one is to be worn over bikini or as dressing gown. Third one is too small over hips and you can't hide it even with a coat.
The first one looks pretty good in the end - shame about the fabric not being as stated. Personally, I would not buy unbranded clothing online or a brand I hadn't worn before, however good it looked in the photo (they have a way of making poor quality items look amazing) My shape is so difficult that 9/10 of things I try on in shops don't even fit, so sadly have no chance online.
I don't buy clothes that I can't try on.
I only order from verified sites that also have retail stores so I know the quality of the things I'm buying.
Wish I could mail her all my shopping mistakes and her male me back some awesome clothes
she's amazing at restyling. If I were her I'd buy all the cheapest crappiest pieces and just magic *** restyle* them beatiful
I hope you're being facetious Val. "Amazing at restyling"? She ironed the outfits and threw a jacket over them, nothing amazing about any of these so called re-stylings.
You look great!! I think you did a great job, especially with the first outfit. And I don't think you went out of your way to make yourself look bad, like others here have said. You were just showing us the power of makeup. You look fabulous!!
Love that last outfit with black coat and boots.
Honestly you're a very beautiful woman comparing yourself to a photo that's obviously been staged. In the end you looked better than the FB post.
You guys clearly have NO IDEA that the models used in the photos for the online stores have on haute' couture. Do you know what that means? It means that the fabric was cut, draped, pinned on to the model...then measured, then cut again and sewn so that it perfectly fits the model! You clearly cannot blame her 'stance' or her 'pose' or how she intentionally or unintentionally did this or that! You hating commenters with such obvious low self esteem, who wish to put down anyone who looks nice are such cutthroat b*tches! You can't stand it that she made a bad clothing purchase into a glamorous clothing purchase! You cannot wrap your head around the fact that she made the best of the situation! You should all be ashamed of yourselves!
Holds up mirror: "hating commenters with such obvious low self esteem, who wish to put down anyone who looks nice are such cutthroat b*tches! " Molly, do you not see yourself in your own comment? Do you realize how absolutely insane your virulence in this thread makes you about to be? And it's YOU who doesn't know the meaning of haute couture, what you described is bespoke clothing, not couture. You don't have to attack people over a piece of blatant self-promotion that -oh surprise!- got called out as a piece of blatant self promotion. If you want to see some true re-styling talent reference Bus Lady's post about Sarahtyau and go check out her instagram. The OP is no stylist, the second outfit proves that point.
Calm down, Molly. Go look at some comics.
Someone has to step up!
Her figure is not like the Models figure- that is pretty much it.. .
She has beautiful taste! The before and after pix are amazing!
Oy vey. I feel terrible for you. This happened to me when I ordered my prom dress on Amazon. That was the worst 200 bucks I'd ever spent.
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Kudos for making the best of a Trumped up situation....