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As if the prom night itself wasn't stressful enough, there are many things that girls have to figure out before attending it: makeup, hairstyle, shoes, accessories and the most important - the prom dress.
These days it is really popular to shop for this last ingredient online. You can pretty much find whatever you want, you don't need to leave your house to find it, and somebody will even deliver it to your door! Cheap shopping literally couldn't be any more convenient. Unless you decide to buy your prom dress online, that is. Because what looks good on the internet doesn't always look good in real life! Some of these unlucky prom-goers managed to save their epic fails of dresses by mending them; others opted out for Plan B - throwing the ordered dress to trash. Take this list of funny fails as a cautionary tale.
From mermaid style dresses turned to blobfish, laces looking like grandma's doilies and a dress that turns you into a character from Handmaid's Tale, this compilation of online shopping disasters is truly hilarious.
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Tijana Skrbic 8 years ago
you buy suspicious chinese stuff, you get suspicious chinese stuff. Simple as that
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Alusair Alustriel 8 years ago
Simple solution - cut out the bra pods, wear a skin-tone bra and the dress is fine. Oh, and also stand straight, helps a lot.
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Naima Ivansdóttir 8 years ago
well, i don't think this is THAT bad actually... needs some fixing for sure, but...
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Naima Ivansdóttir 8 years ago
oh my, this looks like a lame disney princess costume for kids :D
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Flora Polvado 8 years ago
Wait, what? Did they send it in pieces? Even if put together, it won't match the picture.
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Captain Planet 8 years ago
Hah complaining about a dress not fitting well enough when you are consiously ordering a dress that shows all your private parts at 16-17. Good thing you are worrying about the right things. That damm dress fit.
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Pandykinz 8 years ago
Way cheaper materials that don't drape correctly. No amount of "fixing" can make up for cheap materials
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Laura Cole 8 years ago
This one's pretty similar. It's certainly closer to the original than any of the others.
Popescu Adina 8 years ago
how can you say that? the print is different, the color of the lower part is way off and it has way less material than the original. Everything that made the original dress special is missing from the thing this girl got. It's like comparing the drawing of a rose made by an artist with one made by a 5 years old. They are both roses and have kind of the same shape and color but they are not the same...
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Flora Polvado 8 years ago
No, not the right style for you. Until you understand your body type, always try on first. Took me years, still try first, every time.
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Pamela Mitchell 8 years ago
Beautiful dress - looks like people are disillusioned about body type and their actual measurements.
Many people have experienced mishaps when buying clothing online. Shopping for a prom dress on the internet might seem convenient, but it can lead to unexpected outcomes. Buyers who fall victim to misleading online portrayals might relate to well-known public relation mishaps.
Learning from how companies have dealt with image damage could help avoid your personal shopping disasters.
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Taymeho Bocchan 8 years ago
All of the body shaming really kills this post. And idiots don't understand fabric quality, construction, accuracy, etc... It's not the girl
Sierra Hall 8 years ago
I agree. I sew for a hobby and making something with good quality fabric can change how it looks on a person.
Load More Replies... Sierra Hall 8 years ago
People keep blaming these girls for being "obese". Yes some of them are on the bigger side, but these dresses are cheap. They're cheap replicas of very expensive dresses. If these girls want quality, find a seamstress who can make you something like the picture but you're still going to have to pay for it. You can't expect to get a designer dress for $30 online. If it seems too good to be true, it is.
Nicole Gore 8 years ago
Agreed. It has nothing to do with the girls size, there is an obvious difference in the style and material. The bigger woman in these photos have dresses on that are huge on them. You want quality you have to pay more unless you're like me and shop thrift and estate sales.
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April Bundridge 8 years ago
Okay, so here is my wedding dress and the dress that I bought it based on...from China. The beading wasn't exactly the same, nor was the lace in the middle, but I adjusted it to my liking. I chose the material and color and sent them my sizes and managed to only spend around $100 on this dress, plus a few hours of time on adjustments. This was my second online purchase for a wedding dress as the first one was pretty, but not what I wanted and they refunded my money no problem. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the original site this dress came from to compare prices or anything else about it. Double check your sizes and material, check and verify online reviews, don't spend too much money that you might not get back and order far enough out that if it doesn't work you can still get something else. I would also suggest trying something on in a similar style to see if that even works with your body type. Not every dress does. 2017-05-16...7b3bee.jpg 
Ildiko S. 8 years ago
That's it. Check the details, and the reviews. Also, many pics show a girl in a dress that is not her size or does not fit her body - and well, it looks bad. Still, half of these dresses are horrible, hard to deny.
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Lunar 8 years ago
China does make pretty and beautiful dresses...it's all down to the cost...if it's cheap, don't expect anything nice...you want nice, don't expect it to be cheap either...
Sally Brite 8 years ago
It's just really bothering me that everyone is trashing a whole country and don't even understand that higher quality garments they buy from the front street stores are also made in China (India, or Bangladesh, or Guatemala).
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Alusair Alustriel 8 years ago
What I don't uderstand here is the level of being naive. 1. Models are superslim and tall. THe buyers are usually obese and short. Or at least not size 34-36 and 180-190 tall. 2. Each year there are the "Remember not to buy your prom dress online" articles and women still don't learn... So first - measure your sizes for the sizes of ordered dress, second: order from a good quality store, not China for heaven's sake.... Sorry if I sound harsh, but c'mon...
Gretchin Anderson 8 years ago
If you like the dress you find on a china clothing site (or any clothing piece) simply save the pic to your computer or phone and then go to google image search. Upload the image, and you will usually find the company who is ACTUALLY selling that dress/piece of clothing. That way, you can get exactly what you want! =)
Ashley Argo 8 years ago
1- These parents allowing their kids to wear sheer tops!?!? Original photos too sexy...NOPE 2- why ordering online in the 1st place!?
Shveta Sarwal 8 years ago
I've been working professionally in the fashion industry for over a decade. A gown with that level of complexity costs thousands of dollars, not hundreds. It's not about the label like someone commented. It's actually complex pattern making and draping, stitching skill that goes into making these gowns. You can't spend a few hundred and think that's a lot. That may be a lot of money for you or me to spend on a special occasion gown, but it doesn't change the fact that the execution is an art, and you have to pay people for their time and skills. You literally get what you pay for. Let this be a warning for Brides shopping online for their wedding gowns as well! Yes, you can complain about how expensive a gown is and say ok fine, I'll just buy it online where the same looking dress costs way less... go ahead my dear! People need to educate themselves about the clothes they put on their body. If you don't know, you can't complain. If you let yourself not be educated, this is what happens
Ildiko S. 8 years ago
You have made an important point. People have unrealistic expectations. I only make things for myself on a very basic level - but that already makes me aware of how much work it is, how much quality materials cost... And how one model just wont fit everyone. Even when we go buying a simple shirt, we try on a few to find a match. Now when it comes to a gown that should fit everywhere and give the look you expect... But we just want to outsmart shops... Which in this case is impossible. Even for a good price you could not expect to receive those dresses by post and just look great in them... Still, the shops are not playing it fair either...
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jacluckycat 8 years ago
I found this article a lot more enjoyable after i stopped reading comments, which was about three pictures into it. I can't believe the stupid things people say about other's bodies. It's like you think these girls somehow deserved to wind up with some shitshow of a dress because they're not skinny. Sod off
Moglin Sin 8 years ago
IF you buy a dress online, look at reviews. Especially photo reviews. I bought one dress, one only, that came how it looked in the picture. Just got to do research. Lots of it.
AnnieLaurie Burke 8 years ago
Yes, a lot of stuff you order online can be cheap and poorly made. However, it is obvious that many of these young ladies were totally unrealistic about the styles that would be most flattering for their body types, heights, etc. Commonly, dresses for ads are modeled by a woman that is a size 0-2, and 5'9" to 5'-11" tall. If you don't fit those parameters, you need to take that into account. It's also obvious that they did not pay much attention to the fabric types or descriptions. Ladies, "sheer" means exactly what the dictionary says it means. There are wonderful online stores where you can get great bargains on formal wear, even designer styles, but every shopper needs to use some common sense.
Kim Wagner-Denig 8 years ago
First of all. ....how does anyone think that a $40 knock off dress to a $5000 + dress is going to look just as amazing. Second. ...all of the advertised dresses are fully body formed, fitted just for that model Third. ...even if the dress came looking identical and fitted perfectly.....it's not the companies fault you may not have the same assets as the model does or in some cases much more than the model does therfore the dress is not going to look the same on you as the model. Also there is a thing called photo editing used. And lastly......ALOT of those dresses are completely INAPPROPRIATE for a school function and anyone arriving in some of those dresses should be turned away and told come back when you have some material covering your body in the right places
Merianna Propisnova 8 years ago
I ordered my wedding dress from Ali, and it was really quite nice for the price...but it did take 4 months to arrive.
Alina Dumitru 8 years ago
I think that the big problem is not the quality of the fabric and the dress' sewing patterns but the unrealistic expectactions about one's body. I mean looking at a dress shown by a model that usually has 180 cm/5'9', 55 kilos/120 lbs and bust/waist/hip ratio accepted as fashion standard and expecting that the dress will look the same on a person that hasn't a model's body seems a bit naive ...Of course, the girls are young and not to blame, but the whole article shows for me that our culture is so concerned in trying to reach a certain beauty standard rather than knowing one's own body, loving it as it is and flattering it. I think most of the girls chose dresses that were not tailored for their bodies. We are not all built the the same (thankfully) and we cannot look the same in the same clothes. An why should we be?
Chrissy Jones 8 years ago
You clearly have never bought a dress from one of these crappy companies that FALSELY ADVERTISE. Rosewe, Zaful, Dresslily, etc ADVERTISE beautiful clothing. But what comes is often times a totally different material than the one in the photo, for example, sheer instead of opaque, poorly hemmed with slapdash 'work,' embroidery is not as advertised, material quality is incredibly cheap and tacky, looks NOTHING like what is advertised. This is not about size. Yes, most women in China are MUCH smaller than most women in the USA or the West in general. From height to weight to shoe size, Chinese tend to be petite. That's not the problem here. The problem is clear in the photographs. The green dress in #8 is TOTALLY different from the advertised style. An off-the shoulder dress now has lace up to the neck? HORRIBLE FALSE ADVERTISING. China is making a killing off of their Sweat Shop workers who are clearly untrained in seamstress work, are paid by the dress so the have to slap dash dozens...
Load More Replies... Flora Polvado 8 years ago
1. Good bra 2. Good posture, hold yourself like the queen you are! 3. Know your body 4. Try it on 1st. 5. Most will need refitting
Emma Prada 5 years ago
JUST GET A HALLOWEEN COSTUME INSTEAD OF ALL THESE PROM DRESSES. UR RLY GONNA BE THE QUEEN IN MY OPINION👻
Ellen Scott 8 years ago
#1 You don't have the same body type as the model. #2 The dress is tailored to fit the model like a glove. Tailoring will make the dress fit you better as we all are shaped differently. #3 The picture is od designer dress and younare ordering a cheap knockoff from China. I don't understand how you expect different results.
Lorigay Laskin 8 years ago
some of those dresses arent even the same.....the ones on the left seem to be designer dresses whereas the ones on the right are copies or discounted dresses. Remember, sometimes you DO GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR....
Hélder Blayer 8 years ago
do these girls really thought they are like the models in the left pictures? AHAHAHAHAHHAHAH of course the dresses couldn't look exactly like the advertising pictures. AHAHAAHHAHAHAH crazy ingenuous girls...
Angela Jester 9 months ago
I'm disappointed by how mean many of the comments in this post are toward the *girls* who bought the dresses. They're close to adulthood, true, but they're still kids making the kinds of decisions kids do. And those dresses are pretty much made like a Halloween costume in terms of fabric and skill, they got scammed.
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Jemma Bell 5 years ago
Why do any of these girls or women believe they are going to get a high quality professionally tailored to fit perfectly garment from a company half way across the world, who have never heard of trading standard and whose size options are S/M/L/XL all for approximately £200? Especially when you can image search the same dress and see professional retailers selling it for around 2k. You know you're getting a fake, a cheap fake at that, why on earth would you expect it to be even halfway near as good as the original?
Megan Leslie 5 years ago
1.The majority of these aren't bad. Know your size &/or how to sew. 2. You will NOT look like the model made up to look as good as possible to sell you the dress. 3. Are some of these chicks getting married? 4. Talk about some picky, spoiled, entitled lil bitches. I got my dress at a 2nd hand store. (Poor af). 5. Are some planning on going to prom more than once? (I'll NEVER buy *another* prom dress online). 6. Are some of them going to prom or a porno set?? Seriously. No class anymore.
vicki neus 7 years ago
Shouldn't think the sheer tops with nursing shields are acceptable by most schools or parents.
Teo Salagean 7 years ago
in 90% din cazuri rochia din stanga nu e ca si cea din dreapta ... dar si fetele din stanga is suple iar alea din dreapta is grase ...
Wendy Davies 7 years ago
Just don’t order your wedding dress on line, it could be a deal breaker.
Christina B. Empaling 7 years ago
I hv been buying dresses online frm China for like million of times. I m always satisfied with the items I rcvd. Bcoz I know what size n measurements suits me. Then I read d details ie type of material, whether it is stretchable or not etc. D photo of d model posing with d dress is jst an illustration. Then if d price is cheap, don't put a high hope on it. Most of these are jst of d wrong sizes kids!
Leah Pearce 7 years ago
Maybe I'm the exception? Or maybe order from JJ's House! They did a fantastic job on my wedding dress (I know its not prom but still bought it online). It fit perfectly right out of the bag and I never not once had to go get a fitting. 15665918_1...8b5efe.jpg 
Robin Keith-O'Neal 7 years ago
First of all, what parent would let their daughter wear some of those? second you have to have the body of the model to wear them.
Andrea Efstathiou 7 years ago
I actually feel so sorry for them all, prom is pretty important in the US isn't it? What an awful thing to happen, as if being a teenager isn't hard enough!
Thomas Williams 8 years ago
Come aren't that bad. A little twerking would fix some. Number 41, the model just wore sheer undies. The H. S. girl wore a short slip. A long one would have worked better.
Maxine Luker 8 years ago
not only should you not buy a cheap china made dress, (sizes hardly ever match our American sizes, anyway), but please, look at your body type! a lot of them are looking at a dress with a size 0 or so model in it. i'm not 'fat shaming' anyone, these gals are not 'obese', just the wrong body type for the dress they want.
Carla Gordon 8 years ago
Yes a lot of these dresses are cheep copies but if you are a size 6 or 8 it won't look the same as someone that wears a 0 or a 2. The pictures they order from are tailored for that person and are pressed. You have to admit if some of these dresses were pressed and taken in here and there they would be really nice, you can't expect something to look runway ready after being shipped from China or anywhere else for that matter. Items need to be tweaked to each person's liking.
Jessica Russian Sifontes 8 years ago
A lot of these look like cheap trash bags, and some are like, I don't know, 20 bucks for a dress? But in many cases, it looks like the model of the dress is not a good fit for the body shape. Some look like they could use a bit of tailoring to be a good fit.
Tina Taylor 8 years ago
Online shopping can be great, but not for dresses. These days there a lot of consignment and second hand stores are selling beautiful gowns cheap. Also, here on FB yardsale sites I have seen a lot of them. Happy Shopping ladies!
Iesha Dover 8 years ago
Most of the have nothing to do with being poor copies as they aren't even copies. Like green being off the should in picture turned into a full neck collar top dress. To they are pure scam and fuad dress.
Valerie Kugler 8 years ago
#41 wasn't that bad. It was actually a nice dress. Just needed pressing or steaming to get the wrinkles out. Most of these dresses are bad but some just didn't fit because the person ordering the dress simply doesn't have a body like the model in the pics has. It's a reality check for sure for most young women. We all want to look like the girl in the picture, but we rarely do. And no matter what, until we actually try on the dress, we will never know if that style looks good on us or not. Much better off all around to either have someone custom make your dress to fit you locally, or to just go dress shopping at the nearest bridal store or prom dress store. Just watch the want adds, there are always girls looking to sell last years dress or like in my daughters circumstance, have multiple dresses to choose from because of competitions in Junior miss or other beauty queen type competitions. We got lucky and I paid a fraction of the price because the dress was only worn once.
rebecca gray 8 years ago
Some of the dresses don't look too bad. I feel like they expected to look like the models too hats not promised in an online purchase.
Dixie Lipe 8 years ago
I bought a prom dress from a garage sale for $.75, had it dry cleaned and pressed. Was beautiful!.
Jens Tejera 8 years ago
Some of these are totally possible to save if you have a bit of creativity, some lace and thread.
Jens Tejera 8 years ago
Some of these are totally possible to save if you have creativity and some lace and thread.
Tina Pierce Farrell 8 years ago
My daughter ordered both her Junior and Senior prom dresses online (from the same website) and they both turned out beautifully ! She received many complements on both dresses
Laura Cole 8 years ago
29 and 32 are actually pretty close to the original, lol. I don't know what 29 was expecting, the model in the example pic is clearly wearing nude underwear and bra. It's all lace on mesh, of course it's gonna show your bits.
Monica Palase 8 years ago
My issue is this-when did prom become a time for girls to see who could dress in the least amount of clothes? And then complain and whine when they are banned from attending said dance??
Melissa Gonzalez 8 years ago
These are replicas not the real designer dress. You get what you pay for
Kylie Chan 8 years ago
others are actually manageable...they could have them re-tailored to fit them exactly...
Stephen Trynosky 8 years ago
Well, to save a buck and for convenience you go online. One by one the stores start shutting down, then the malls close pretty soon all you will be able to buy will be online. Time perhaps to re-introduce sewing in the schools for boys and girls. Otherwise, everyone will look like a sack of potatoes.
Chrissy Jones 8 years ago
Don't buy clothes from China. They advertise BEAUTIFUL dresses on gorgeous models. When the dresses actually arrive, (OFTEN TIMES MONTHS later, 'Slow Boat FROM China is not just an expression anymore!) they are poorly made, slapped together with bad seams and do not meet sizing (an extra small dress that would be a US Size Zero just has an XL label hastily stitched in) and are of subpar material. Literally the cheapest and ugliest materials found in China. Infuriating. The Federal Trade Commission needs to PROTECT buyers in the US from Chinese False Advertising!
Ellen Scott 8 years ago
#1 You don't have the same body the model does. #2 The dress is tailored to fit the model like a glove. #3 You are looking at a designer dress and ordering a cheap knockoff.
Rachel Weber 8 years ago
This just shows the difference between 2004 Internet and now. I bought my dress online, have no clue if it was from china, but it was $99 and I LOVED IT! It looked exactly like the photo. It was a simple dress, but super beautiful, age appropriate/prom appropriate. I guess I lucked out.
Bob Collins 8 years ago
What's the problem? Nothing here that 100 pins and a roll of double-sided duck tape can't fix. Git 'er dun!!!
Tim P. (Titou) 8 years ago
C'est d'un ridicule, les femmes ne sont même pas jolies et de plus des vêtements fait de façon non professionnel, c'est pas comme ça qu'elles se mettront en valeur, ce n'est pas en copiant les célébrités que ce sera joli sur une autre personne.
Anna Brandigi 8 years ago
ADVICE FOR DRESS SHOPPING: Find a chart and figure out what your body type is. Believe it or not, not all dresses are for one body type. You just have to know what you need and dig a little deeper!
Katerina K 8 years ago
Just another "Woman's Job" - Dressmaking - that has become so devalued that people think they can get a Prom or Wedding-worthy dress online, from China, for a couple hundred bucks. These are probably the same people who buy their everyday clothes from Walmart. You get what you pay for, people! And let's not ever forget that countries that export this junk are making them with human "slave" labor, often children, who get paid next to nothing and in abominable conditions.
Stefanina da Lucca 8 years ago
My mother made my prom dress. I was the only one of two girls that had custom-made dresses. Mine cost much less than the other girl's outfit...lol
Melody Ausiello 8 years ago
Really? Some of those dress are not that bad just needed to be fitted to them and the one that was completely see through no school would allow her to wear that. Stupid buy in first place. If she had to cover boobs and v in the picture. Just because famous people can do it on the red carpet doesn't mean it's appropriate for school. Have some class, please.
Just a Purpler 8 years ago
I hate marketing strategies that include straight up lying... Sure, one message you might take from this is that you shouldn't buy a prom dress online, but MAN it makes me mad companies are getting away with this! Straight up LIES! GAhhhh
Heather Martin 8 years ago
The models in the original are very tall, slim women, chosen for the job because they happen to fit the stereotype of what a 'beautiful' woman should look like. It's terribly sad that these beautiful young girls should have their confidence crushed in this way.
Sarah Vaeth 8 years ago
Oh dear. Here's what I would do if I were young and lovely and shopping for a prom dress: buy vintage on eBay. Look for something from a seller with a good rep, that's photographed from all angles, and has all the measurements in the description- bust, waist, hips, length.
Bridget Smith 8 years ago
I thought it was funny seeing comments on a few dresses saying things like, "this one isn't that bad." Every girls dream prom dress!! "Not that bad."
Bridget Smith 8 years ago
Most of our clothes are made there, whether we buy them online or from a store in the mall...
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Judith Loraine 8 years ago
I think if you order clothes on line 1.your killing the High Street. 2. You're denying yourself choice. 3 cheapest isn't always best
Josie Wolf 8 years ago
My daughter ordered a dress online 2 weeks before prom and it was beautiful.We ordered from promgirls.com. Definitely stayed away from China
Krysta Pandoo 8 years ago
A lot of these dresses are just meant for skinny people who will look good in anything really. Besides, you get what you pay for; what makes you think a cheap dress will be a classy dress?
Hiruya 8 years ago
The girls ordered dresses fitted for models and costing a lot ... and really wonder why their average bodies don't fit in a cheap copy?
Janice Foster 8 years ago
That's pretty harsh - in most pics, the quality of the dresses the girls received appears much lower than what was advertised. I don't think their "average bodies" have anything to do with their complaints.
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Ok, they didn't match the original, but I thought half of these dresses actually looked pretty good. I bought my wedding dress from China and everyone raved about it.
Menaka Premkumar 8 years ago
I think this looks more like what people attempted to copy from what they saw online than actual ordering.
Judit Thoma 8 years ago
A lot of these dresses could have been worn with a little thing called FITTING. A seamstress can do that for you... If you order something online, don't think it will look on you like it does on the model, people have different shapes even if the size is the same.
Cenk Karaferya 8 years ago
People are so dumb. Go get your dress altered. You aren't going to get a custom made dress for 10 bucks!
Sue Munden 8 years ago
Aside from the poor quality of most of these knock off chinese dresses, the other problem I'm seeing is that these young girls are looking at the dress on a model and for some reason thinking that the dress will magically transform their own height, shape & size to look like the model in the image. (who no doubt actually has pins pulling the dress in to make it look a better fit, & is probably airbrushed in the image also). They just need to choose a design that compliments their own figure rather than the figure of the model. Also of course, go to a decent dress shop and try one on first!
İdil 8 years ago
1) If you get a dress online, especially from china, you have to expect anything but the actual dress you chose.
İdil 8 years ago
2) The models wearing the dresses are skinny, toned and tall. If your body type isn't same, good chance the dress will look bad.
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Alexandra Camacho 8 years ago
they all should've expected that the would have to tailor the dresses to work for their bodies.
Jennifer Tilden 7 years ago
Here is an idea: do not dress like a prostitute at a school function! Red carpet-worthy is usually in appropriate when you're that age. Your math teacher should not know if you have a Brazilian and nipple rings.
Coma Black 8 years ago
It doesn't matter what size you are, you can have a beautiful, high quality dress. However, if you order one from a website for a fraction of the cost and expect to receive something that looks like it was shipped straight from the runway then this is what you'll get. This has to do more with the lack of good judgement on their part than their size. 😂😂😂
Taymeho Bocchan 8 years ago
All of the body shaming really kills this post. And idiots don't understand fabric quality, construction, accuracy, etc... It's not the girl
Sierra Hall 8 years ago
I agree. I sew for a hobby and making something with good quality fabric can change how it looks on a person.
Load More Replies... Sierra Hall 8 years ago
People keep blaming these girls for being "obese". Yes some of them are on the bigger side, but these dresses are cheap. They're cheap replicas of very expensive dresses. If these girls want quality, find a seamstress who can make you something like the picture but you're still going to have to pay for it. You can't expect to get a designer dress for $30 online. If it seems too good to be true, it is.
Nicole Gore 8 years ago
Agreed. It has nothing to do with the girls size, there is an obvious difference in the style and material. The bigger woman in these photos have dresses on that are huge on them. You want quality you have to pay more unless you're like me and shop thrift and estate sales.
Load More Replies... April Bundridge 8 years ago
Okay, so here is my wedding dress and the dress that I bought it based on...from China. The beading wasn't exactly the same, nor was the lace in the middle, but I adjusted it to my liking. I chose the material and color and sent them my sizes and managed to only spend around $100 on this dress, plus a few hours of time on adjustments. This was my second online purchase for a wedding dress as the first one was pretty, but not what I wanted and they refunded my money no problem. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the original site this dress came from to compare prices or anything else about it. Double check your sizes and material, check and verify online reviews, don't spend too much money that you might not get back and order far enough out that if it doesn't work you can still get something else. I would also suggest trying something on in a similar style to see if that even works with your body type. Not every dress does. 2017-05-16...7b3bee.jpg
Ildiko S. 8 years ago
That's it. Check the details, and the reviews. Also, many pics show a girl in a dress that is not her size or does not fit her body - and well, it looks bad. Still, half of these dresses are horrible, hard to deny.
Load More Replies... Lunar 8 years ago
China does make pretty and beautiful dresses...it's all down to the cost...if it's cheap, don't expect anything nice...you want nice, don't expect it to be cheap either...
Sally Brite 8 years ago
It's just really bothering me that everyone is trashing a whole country and don't even understand that higher quality garments they buy from the front street stores are also made in China (India, or Bangladesh, or Guatemala).
Load More Replies... Alusair Alustriel 8 years ago
What I don't uderstand here is the level of being naive. 1. Models are superslim and tall. THe buyers are usually obese and short. Or at least not size 34-36 and 180-190 tall. 2. Each year there are the "Remember not to buy your prom dress online" articles and women still don't learn... So first - measure your sizes for the sizes of ordered dress, second: order from a good quality store, not China for heaven's sake.... Sorry if I sound harsh, but c'mon...
Gretchin Anderson 8 years ago
If you like the dress you find on a china clothing site (or any clothing piece) simply save the pic to your computer or phone and then go to google image search. Upload the image, and you will usually find the company who is ACTUALLY selling that dress/piece of clothing. That way, you can get exactly what you want! =)
Ashley Argo 8 years ago
1- These parents allowing their kids to wear sheer tops!?!? Original photos too sexy...NOPE 2- why ordering online in the 1st place!?
Shveta Sarwal 8 years ago
I've been working professionally in the fashion industry for over a decade. A gown with that level of complexity costs thousands of dollars, not hundreds. It's not about the label like someone commented. It's actually complex pattern making and draping, stitching skill that goes into making these gowns. You can't spend a few hundred and think that's a lot. That may be a lot of money for you or me to spend on a special occasion gown, but it doesn't change the fact that the execution is an art, and you have to pay people for their time and skills. You literally get what you pay for. Let this be a warning for Brides shopping online for their wedding gowns as well! Yes, you can complain about how expensive a gown is and say ok fine, I'll just buy it online where the same looking dress costs way less... go ahead my dear! People need to educate themselves about the clothes they put on their body. If you don't know, you can't complain. If you let yourself not be educated, this is what happens
Ildiko S. 8 years ago
You have made an important point. People have unrealistic expectations. I only make things for myself on a very basic level - but that already makes me aware of how much work it is, how much quality materials cost... And how one model just wont fit everyone. Even when we go buying a simple shirt, we try on a few to find a match. Now when it comes to a gown that should fit everywhere and give the look you expect... But we just want to outsmart shops... Which in this case is impossible. Even for a good price you could not expect to receive those dresses by post and just look great in them... Still, the shops are not playing it fair either...
Load More Replies... jacluckycat 8 years ago
I found this article a lot more enjoyable after i stopped reading comments, which was about three pictures into it. I can't believe the stupid things people say about other's bodies. It's like you think these girls somehow deserved to wind up with some shitshow of a dress because they're not skinny. Sod off
Moglin Sin 8 years ago
IF you buy a dress online, look at reviews. Especially photo reviews. I bought one dress, one only, that came how it looked in the picture. Just got to do research. Lots of it.
AnnieLaurie Burke 8 years ago
Yes, a lot of stuff you order online can be cheap and poorly made. However, it is obvious that many of these young ladies were totally unrealistic about the styles that would be most flattering for their body types, heights, etc. Commonly, dresses for ads are modeled by a woman that is a size 0-2, and 5'9" to 5'-11" tall. If you don't fit those parameters, you need to take that into account. It's also obvious that they did not pay much attention to the fabric types or descriptions. Ladies, "sheer" means exactly what the dictionary says it means. There are wonderful online stores where you can get great bargains on formal wear, even designer styles, but every shopper needs to use some common sense.
Kim Wagner-Denig 8 years ago
First of all. ....how does anyone think that a $40 knock off dress to a $5000 + dress is going to look just as amazing. Second. ...all of the advertised dresses are fully body formed, fitted just for that model Third. ...even if the dress came looking identical and fitted perfectly.....it's not the companies fault you may not have the same assets as the model does or in some cases much more than the model does therfore the dress is not going to look the same on you as the model. Also there is a thing called photo editing used. And lastly......ALOT of those dresses are completely INAPPROPRIATE for a school function and anyone arriving in some of those dresses should be turned away and told come back when you have some material covering your body in the right places
Merianna Propisnova 8 years ago
I ordered my wedding dress from Ali, and it was really quite nice for the price...but it did take 4 months to arrive.
Alina Dumitru 8 years ago
I think that the big problem is not the quality of the fabric and the dress' sewing patterns but the unrealistic expectactions about one's body. I mean looking at a dress shown by a model that usually has 180 cm/5'9', 55 kilos/120 lbs and bust/waist/hip ratio accepted as fashion standard and expecting that the dress will look the same on a person that hasn't a model's body seems a bit naive ...Of course, the girls are young and not to blame, but the whole article shows for me that our culture is so concerned in trying to reach a certain beauty standard rather than knowing one's own body, loving it as it is and flattering it. I think most of the girls chose dresses that were not tailored for their bodies. We are not all built the the same (thankfully) and we cannot look the same in the same clothes. An why should we be?
Chrissy Jones 8 years ago
You clearly have never bought a dress from one of these crappy companies that FALSELY ADVERTISE. Rosewe, Zaful, Dresslily, etc ADVERTISE beautiful clothing. But what comes is often times a totally different material than the one in the photo, for example, sheer instead of opaque, poorly hemmed with slapdash 'work,' embroidery is not as advertised, material quality is incredibly cheap and tacky, looks NOTHING like what is advertised. This is not about size. Yes, most women in China are MUCH smaller than most women in the USA or the West in general. From height to weight to shoe size, Chinese tend to be petite. That's not the problem here. The problem is clear in the photographs. The green dress in #8 is TOTALLY different from the advertised style. An off-the shoulder dress now has lace up to the neck? HORRIBLE FALSE ADVERTISING. China is making a killing off of their Sweat Shop workers who are clearly untrained in seamstress work, are paid by the dress so the have to slap dash dozens...
Load More Replies... Flora Polvado 8 years ago
1. Good bra 2. Good posture, hold yourself like the queen you are! 3. Know your body 4. Try it on 1st. 5. Most will need refitting
Emma Prada 5 years ago
JUST GET A HALLOWEEN COSTUME INSTEAD OF ALL THESE PROM DRESSES. UR RLY GONNA BE THE QUEEN IN MY OPINION👻
Ellen Scott 8 years ago
#1 You don't have the same body type as the model. #2 The dress is tailored to fit the model like a glove. Tailoring will make the dress fit you better as we all are shaped differently. #3 The picture is od designer dress and younare ordering a cheap knockoff from China. I don't understand how you expect different results.
Lorigay Laskin 8 years ago
some of those dresses arent even the same.....the ones on the left seem to be designer dresses whereas the ones on the right are copies or discounted dresses. Remember, sometimes you DO GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR....
Hélder Blayer 8 years ago
do these girls really thought they are like the models in the left pictures? AHAHAHAHAHHAHAH of course the dresses couldn't look exactly like the advertising pictures. AHAHAAHHAHAHAH crazy ingenuous girls...
Angela Jester 9 months ago
I'm disappointed by how mean many of the comments in this post are toward the *girls* who bought the dresses. They're close to adulthood, true, but they're still kids making the kinds of decisions kids do. And those dresses are pretty much made like a Halloween costume in terms of fabric and skill, they got scammed.
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Jemma Bell 5 years ago
Why do any of these girls or women believe they are going to get a high quality professionally tailored to fit perfectly garment from a company half way across the world, who have never heard of trading standard and whose size options are S/M/L/XL all for approximately £200? Especially when you can image search the same dress and see professional retailers selling it for around 2k. You know you're getting a fake, a cheap fake at that, why on earth would you expect it to be even halfway near as good as the original?
Megan Leslie 5 years ago
1.The majority of these aren't bad. Know your size &/or how to sew. 2. You will NOT look like the model made up to look as good as possible to sell you the dress. 3. Are some of these chicks getting married? 4. Talk about some picky, spoiled, entitled lil bitches. I got my dress at a 2nd hand store. (Poor af). 5. Are some planning on going to prom more than once? (I'll NEVER buy *another* prom dress online). 6. Are some of them going to prom or a porno set?? Seriously. No class anymore.
vicki neus 7 years ago
Shouldn't think the sheer tops with nursing shields are acceptable by most schools or parents.
Teo Salagean 7 years ago
in 90% din cazuri rochia din stanga nu e ca si cea din dreapta ... dar si fetele din stanga is suple iar alea din dreapta is grase ...
Wendy Davies 7 years ago
Just don’t order your wedding dress on line, it could be a deal breaker.
Christina B. Empaling 7 years ago
I hv been buying dresses online frm China for like million of times. I m always satisfied with the items I rcvd. Bcoz I know what size n measurements suits me. Then I read d details ie type of material, whether it is stretchable or not etc. D photo of d model posing with d dress is jst an illustration. Then if d price is cheap, don't put a high hope on it. Most of these are jst of d wrong sizes kids!
Leah Pearce 7 years ago
Maybe I'm the exception? Or maybe order from JJ's House! They did a fantastic job on my wedding dress (I know its not prom but still bought it online). It fit perfectly right out of the bag and I never not once had to go get a fitting. 15665918_1...8b5efe.jpg
Robin Keith-O'Neal 7 years ago
First of all, what parent would let their daughter wear some of those? second you have to have the body of the model to wear them.
Andrea Efstathiou 7 years ago
I actually feel so sorry for them all, prom is pretty important in the US isn't it? What an awful thing to happen, as if being a teenager isn't hard enough!
Thomas Williams 8 years ago
Come aren't that bad. A little twerking would fix some. Number 41, the model just wore sheer undies. The H. S. girl wore a short slip. A long one would have worked better.
Maxine Luker 8 years ago
not only should you not buy a cheap china made dress, (sizes hardly ever match our American sizes, anyway), but please, look at your body type! a lot of them are looking at a dress with a size 0 or so model in it. i'm not 'fat shaming' anyone, these gals are not 'obese', just the wrong body type for the dress they want.
Carla Gordon 8 years ago
Yes a lot of these dresses are cheep copies but if you are a size 6 or 8 it won't look the same as someone that wears a 0 or a 2. The pictures they order from are tailored for that person and are pressed. You have to admit if some of these dresses were pressed and taken in here and there they would be really nice, you can't expect something to look runway ready after being shipped from China or anywhere else for that matter. Items need to be tweaked to each person's liking.
Jessica Russian Sifontes 8 years ago
A lot of these look like cheap trash bags, and some are like, I don't know, 20 bucks for a dress? But in many cases, it looks like the model of the dress is not a good fit for the body shape. Some look like they could use a bit of tailoring to be a good fit.
Tina Taylor 8 years ago
Online shopping can be great, but not for dresses. These days there a lot of consignment and second hand stores are selling beautiful gowns cheap. Also, here on FB yardsale sites I have seen a lot of them. Happy Shopping ladies!
Iesha Dover 8 years ago
Most of the have nothing to do with being poor copies as they aren't even copies. Like green being off the should in picture turned into a full neck collar top dress. To they are pure scam and fuad dress.
Valerie Kugler 8 years ago
#41 wasn't that bad. It was actually a nice dress. Just needed pressing or steaming to get the wrinkles out. Most of these dresses are bad but some just didn't fit because the person ordering the dress simply doesn't have a body like the model in the pics has. It's a reality check for sure for most young women. We all want to look like the girl in the picture, but we rarely do. And no matter what, until we actually try on the dress, we will never know if that style looks good on us or not. Much better off all around to either have someone custom make your dress to fit you locally, or to just go dress shopping at the nearest bridal store or prom dress store. Just watch the want adds, there are always girls looking to sell last years dress or like in my daughters circumstance, have multiple dresses to choose from because of competitions in Junior miss or other beauty queen type competitions. We got lucky and I paid a fraction of the price because the dress was only worn once.
rebecca gray 8 years ago
Some of the dresses don't look too bad. I feel like they expected to look like the models too hats not promised in an online purchase.
Dixie Lipe 8 years ago
I bought a prom dress from a garage sale for $.75, had it dry cleaned and pressed. Was beautiful!.
Jens Tejera 8 years ago
Some of these are totally possible to save if you have a bit of creativity, some lace and thread.
Jens Tejera 8 years ago
Some of these are totally possible to save if you have creativity and some lace and thread.
Tina Pierce Farrell 8 years ago
My daughter ordered both her Junior and Senior prom dresses online (from the same website) and they both turned out beautifully ! She received many complements on both dresses
Laura Cole 8 years ago
29 and 32 are actually pretty close to the original, lol. I don't know what 29 was expecting, the model in the example pic is clearly wearing nude underwear and bra. It's all lace on mesh, of course it's gonna show your bits.
Monica Palase 8 years ago
My issue is this-when did prom become a time for girls to see who could dress in the least amount of clothes? And then complain and whine when they are banned from attending said dance??
Melissa Gonzalez 8 years ago
These are replicas not the real designer dress. You get what you pay for
Kylie Chan 8 years ago
others are actually manageable...they could have them re-tailored to fit them exactly...
Stephen Trynosky 8 years ago
Well, to save a buck and for convenience you go online. One by one the stores start shutting down, then the malls close pretty soon all you will be able to buy will be online. Time perhaps to re-introduce sewing in the schools for boys and girls. Otherwise, everyone will look like a sack of potatoes.
Chrissy Jones 8 years ago
Don't buy clothes from China. They advertise BEAUTIFUL dresses on gorgeous models. When the dresses actually arrive, (OFTEN TIMES MONTHS later, 'Slow Boat FROM China is not just an expression anymore!) they are poorly made, slapped together with bad seams and do not meet sizing (an extra small dress that would be a US Size Zero just has an XL label hastily stitched in) and are of subpar material. Literally the cheapest and ugliest materials found in China. Infuriating. The Federal Trade Commission needs to PROTECT buyers in the US from Chinese False Advertising!
Ellen Scott 8 years ago
#1 You don't have the same body the model does. #2 The dress is tailored to fit the model like a glove. #3 You are looking at a designer dress and ordering a cheap knockoff.
Rachel Weber 8 years ago
This just shows the difference between 2004 Internet and now. I bought my dress online, have no clue if it was from china, but it was $99 and I LOVED IT! It looked exactly like the photo. It was a simple dress, but super beautiful, age appropriate/prom appropriate. I guess I lucked out.
Bob Collins 8 years ago
What's the problem? Nothing here that 100 pins and a roll of double-sided duck tape can't fix. Git 'er dun!!!
Tim P. (Titou) 8 years ago
C'est d'un ridicule, les femmes ne sont même pas jolies et de plus des vêtements fait de façon non professionnel, c'est pas comme ça qu'elles se mettront en valeur, ce n'est pas en copiant les célébrités que ce sera joli sur une autre personne.
Anna Brandigi 8 years ago
ADVICE FOR DRESS SHOPPING: Find a chart and figure out what your body type is. Believe it or not, not all dresses are for one body type. You just have to know what you need and dig a little deeper!
Katerina K 8 years ago
Just another "Woman's Job" - Dressmaking - that has become so devalued that people think they can get a Prom or Wedding-worthy dress online, from China, for a couple hundred bucks. These are probably the same people who buy their everyday clothes from Walmart. You get what you pay for, people! And let's not ever forget that countries that export this junk are making them with human "slave" labor, often children, who get paid next to nothing and in abominable conditions.
Stefanina da Lucca 8 years ago
My mother made my prom dress. I was the only one of two girls that had custom-made dresses. Mine cost much less than the other girl's outfit...lol
Melody Ausiello 8 years ago
Really? Some of those dress are not that bad just needed to be fitted to them and the one that was completely see through no school would allow her to wear that. Stupid buy in first place. If she had to cover boobs and v in the picture. Just because famous people can do it on the red carpet doesn't mean it's appropriate for school. Have some class, please.
Just a Purpler 8 years ago
I hate marketing strategies that include straight up lying... Sure, one message you might take from this is that you shouldn't buy a prom dress online, but MAN it makes me mad companies are getting away with this! Straight up LIES! GAhhhh
Heather Martin 8 years ago
The models in the original are very tall, slim women, chosen for the job because they happen to fit the stereotype of what a 'beautiful' woman should look like. It's terribly sad that these beautiful young girls should have their confidence crushed in this way.
Sarah Vaeth 8 years ago
Oh dear. Here's what I would do if I were young and lovely and shopping for a prom dress: buy vintage on eBay. Look for something from a seller with a good rep, that's photographed from all angles, and has all the measurements in the description- bust, waist, hips, length.
Bridget Smith 8 years ago
I thought it was funny seeing comments on a few dresses saying things like, "this one isn't that bad." Every girls dream prom dress!! "Not that bad."
Bridget Smith 8 years ago
Most of our clothes are made there, whether we buy them online or from a store in the mall...
Load More Replies... Judith Loraine 8 years ago
I think if you order clothes on line 1.your killing the High Street. 2. You're denying yourself choice. 3 cheapest isn't always best
Josie Wolf 8 years ago
My daughter ordered a dress online 2 weeks before prom and it was beautiful.We ordered from promgirls.com. Definitely stayed away from China
Krysta Pandoo 8 years ago
A lot of these dresses are just meant for skinny people who will look good in anything really. Besides, you get what you pay for; what makes you think a cheap dress will be a classy dress?
Hiruya 8 years ago
The girls ordered dresses fitted for models and costing a lot ... and really wonder why their average bodies don't fit in a cheap copy?
Janice Foster 8 years ago
That's pretty harsh - in most pics, the quality of the dresses the girls received appears much lower than what was advertised. I don't think their "average bodies" have anything to do with their complaints.
Load More Replies... sosunlight 8 years ago
Ok, they didn't match the original, but I thought half of these dresses actually looked pretty good. I bought my wedding dress from China and everyone raved about it.
Menaka Premkumar 8 years ago
I think this looks more like what people attempted to copy from what they saw online than actual ordering.
Judit Thoma 8 years ago
A lot of these dresses could have been worn with a little thing called FITTING. A seamstress can do that for you... If you order something online, don't think it will look on you like it does on the model, people have different shapes even if the size is the same.
Cenk Karaferya 8 years ago
People are so dumb. Go get your dress altered. You aren't going to get a custom made dress for 10 bucks!
Sue Munden 8 years ago
Aside from the poor quality of most of these knock off chinese dresses, the other problem I'm seeing is that these young girls are looking at the dress on a model and for some reason thinking that the dress will magically transform their own height, shape & size to look like the model in the image. (who no doubt actually has pins pulling the dress in to make it look a better fit, & is probably airbrushed in the image also). They just need to choose a design that compliments their own figure rather than the figure of the model. Also of course, go to a decent dress shop and try one on first!
İdil 8 years ago
1) If you get a dress online, especially from china, you have to expect anything but the actual dress you chose.
İdil 8 years ago
2) The models wearing the dresses are skinny, toned and tall. If your body type isn't same, good chance the dress will look bad.
Load More Replies... Alexandra Camacho 8 years ago
they all should've expected that the would have to tailor the dresses to work for their bodies.
Jennifer Tilden 7 years ago
Here is an idea: do not dress like a prostitute at a school function! Red carpet-worthy is usually in appropriate when you're that age. Your math teacher should not know if you have a Brazilian and nipple rings.
Coma Black 8 years ago
It doesn't matter what size you are, you can have a beautiful, high quality dress. However, if you order one from a website for a fraction of the cost and expect to receive something that looks like it was shipped straight from the runway then this is what you'll get. This has to do more with the lack of good judgement on their part than their size. 😂😂😂
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