okay, so if anyone has seen the American Vogue with all the models wearing the Gap white shirts on the front, there is an article in the magazine about Kate Moss's new Topshop collection. I saw her wearing the sequined flapper-style dress, and wanted it.
so I looked on eBay, and lo and behold, there was one listed in my size. the retail is 120 GBP. I paid 150 GBP.
I received it today. the quality is beyond hideous. I'm completely appalled - and to think that I paid $370 CAD for it. I feel like crying.
the nature of the dress is this: it looks nice from far away, but up close, once you see the actual workmanship of the dress, it is no longer impressive. it is basically black and gold diamond shaped sequins attached at each corner by black and tan coloured thread. again, the workmanship is beyond hideous.
on top of that, there is a hole in the front of the dress where the stitching between two diamonds has come apart. I'm not sure if this happened in transit (it seemed well packaged) or if it was like this when the seller bought the dress and subsequently sold it to me.
I'm really just upset that I paid $370 for a dress of horrible, horrible quality, and the fact that it has a hole in it. of course, the dress looked perfect in the magazine, and the seller posted no pictures of the dress, only the picture from the Kate Moss Topshop website.
I just feel like I've been robbed. what horrible false advertising on the part of Vogue, and potentially the seller! I'm really hating fashion right now.
is there any way that I could file a claim of some sort?
I'm not sure what I can do at this point.
my last resort would be to dress up as a flapper at Halloween, and use the dress as part of a very, very expensive Halloween costume.
*sob*
so I looked on eBay, and lo and behold, there was one listed in my size. the retail is 120 GBP. I paid 150 GBP.
I received it today. the quality is beyond hideous. I'm completely appalled - and to think that I paid $370 CAD for it. I feel like crying.
the nature of the dress is this: it looks nice from far away, but up close, once you see the actual workmanship of the dress, it is no longer impressive. it is basically black and gold diamond shaped sequins attached at each corner by black and tan coloured thread. again, the workmanship is beyond hideous.
on top of that, there is a hole in the front of the dress where the stitching between two diamonds has come apart. I'm not sure if this happened in transit (it seemed well packaged) or if it was like this when the seller bought the dress and subsequently sold it to me.
I'm really just upset that I paid $370 for a dress of horrible, horrible quality, and the fact that it has a hole in it. of course, the dress looked perfect in the magazine, and the seller posted no pictures of the dress, only the picture from the Kate Moss Topshop website.
I just feel like I've been robbed. what horrible false advertising on the part of Vogue, and potentially the seller! I'm really hating fashion right now.
is there any way that I could file a claim of some sort?
I'm not sure what I can do at this point.
my last resort would be to dress up as a flapper at Halloween, and use the dress as part of a very, very expensive Halloween costume.
*sob*