Garment Horror Stories
This Lolita Blog Carnival prompt may trigger some of those
bottled up traumatic memories you tried to forget. In all seriousness though,
we’ve all had some horror stories with our garments. Some people have had some
absolute nightmare horror things happen to them. Luckily, I’m not one of those
people – but I still have had some bad things happen.
The most recent is actually still ongoing. I ordered a dress
from Haenuli that I absolutely fell in love with. It got to me, I filmed an
unboxing, I’m trying it on… and the zip gets stuck. At first it kicked my
self-esteem in the butt and I thought that I had gained a little weight (I was
worried whether I was too optimistic when choosing the size). Even though zips get
stuck at waist seams all the time, I still thought that maybe I should’ve
gotten a size larger. But then I swallowed my pride, asked my Dad if he could
zip me up… and he couldn’t move the zip either! So I took off the dress, tried
to do the zip – bam!, it got stuck in the exact same place. I messaged Haenuli
about it, who told me that they used a different supplier with this release and
she told me to send it back for them to inspect and fix. As of today it’s still
there with them, but that might be the worst garment horror story I’ve had.
Thank goodness that Haenuli’s customer service is top notch – if that was AP, I
probably would’ve been screwed.
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| I'm now convinced that zips are hateful creatures who hate everyone. |
The only other horror story was when I got Crystal Dream
Carnival. When I put it on to try, a button holding one of the straps popped
off. It was my ultimate dream dress at the time and I had just gotten it, so I
was horrified and cried. But I quickly told myself that it’s nothing, I can fix
that, besides, it’s not like I was planning on selling that dress anyway. Last
time I took it out and tried to find out which strap was it and couldn’t, so I
must’ve done a better job at stitching that button back on that I thought.
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| It sucks when something happens to your most coveted dream dress the moment you get it. Photo from Lolibrary.org. |
Oh, and one more! I thought that was all, but just
remembered. A few months back I sent one of my dresses to be altered (lower the
waist and change the zip from invisible to normal). The first time I put it on
after being altered it was fine. However, when I tried it on again after that,
to see if my coord idea would work, the zip got stuck (curses!) and then I
managed to actually break it (the moving part was attached only to one side).
It was more annoying than a horror story, since I had just had that zipper
inserted and now had to spend money on getting yet another one (because I don’t
have the skill to do that myself). It’s fixed now, hopefully I won’t do it
again, else it’ll get to be one of my most expensive dresses very quickly.
And now that’s it. Hopefully there will be no more after
that, as it’s never fun and it’s stressful to deal with having to fix a
garment. But like I said, at least I was fortunate to only ever experience
fixable damages. Let’s have a minute of silence for those less fortunate than
ours who have had their best burando ruined. And after that go sympathise with
the other bloggers who participate in this week’s prompt, they deserve some
kind words too!
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That's really great that your horror stories are more inconveniences than anything truly awful and unfix able. I didn't participate in this post because the worst thing I've had was secondhand items smelling of cigarette smoke, and that's even easier to fix!
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I almost didn't participate, because those are really minor things, but I kept voting for this prompt in the group, so I felt compelled. :P Besides, even though these are minor things, maybe someone out there needs to hear that it's ok to be upset when it happens or that they are fixable. Some people treat brand like something sacred or don't realise that indie brands have amazing customer service who will be eager to fix problems like this.
DeleteI'm thankful I've not had any zip-related dramas in lolita! Those experiences sound so frustrating but at least they're fixable!
ReplyDeleteMy garment horror story would be accidentally putting a black blazer in the wash with my pastel yellow Meta Sweet Cherry jumperskirt. It's never looked the same since. I was lucky the blazer didn't run too much as nobody else has ever noticed the colour issue but you can really see the slight dull tinge when you compare it to the detachable bow which didn't go in the wash with it! But as far as horror stories go, I think it could have been a lot worse haha.
I think it's more frustrating that so many people in this fashion have issues with the zips. I know that it's the nature of invisible zips, that they're more likely to catch on waist seams, but it's so annoying and because you have to pull this much harder it makes you more likely to break them.
DeleteOh no, that sounds awful! It's good that it's not noticeable to a bystander, but it sucks when you yourself know that it's not quite what it should be. I'm so paranoid about incidents like this that I put a colour catcher sheet into every laundry I do, even though I separate it by colour. Just in case :P