I have a dress that I ordered quite some time ago from an online store. Here is a pic:
It was actually sold out and I was just waiting waiting waiting and hoping it would come back into stock (a return) and, magically, it did. I got the restock email and, believe you me, I pounced! POUNCED!
But my adored dress that was rejected by someone else did not come in perfect condition. There was an issue with the zipper. Basically it didn't want to make the zipping transition from the skirt to the bodice (it's an invisible zipper, on the inside of the dress, not the outside). If it was off, I could force it. But on? No way. And I've even brought that thing to work and made other people try to zip it while it was on! Yeah, I know. No shame. Anyway! I took it to a dry cleaner Wednesday to have the zipper replaced. The helper made me try it on. I had to firmly tell her that, NO, it was NOT too small. It was fitted! Total difference!
Thursday rolls around and some guy with a heavy accent calls to tell me to come pick up the dress. He's decided he is not doing the work! "If I fix zipper, it work 2 times. Then break again. Dress does not fit, that why it won't zip." So I, very irritated, told him I'd come get it and have someone else replace the zipper!
Side note: When I told Bart the zipper fixer told me I was clearly too fat for the dress he said, "That's not what he told you. He just said the dress was too small for you." Which made me laugh!
When they were fixing the zipper I was to pick the dress up Friday after 5 pm. So I went over around 3:30 and, for heaven sake, they could not find the damn thing anywhere. Let me tell you, panic ensued in the back. Finally the "this dress is too small for you!" culprit came in and looks at me like I'm a dolt and says (with a shrug), "I decide to replace zipper."
#$&!*#@
I left a giant crisis at work (shocker!) to do this and ended up having to go back. Now, when I was there to find the dress MIA the searcher and the shrugger both reminded me that this would NOT work and I was going to be sad.
Well, guess what? Totally works. It WAS the zipper. I can zip it by myself, easy as pie, no help required.
HA!
3 comments:
Well, that's quite a story! You always look so cute in dresses I think so glad you got a new one...and that it fits and zips!
Oh, and I didn't know we could post pics in the middle of a post! Wonder how you do that?
Thanks! And it worked out great - and I have a picture from what I'm calling "Prom Night" and it was a cute dress!
Yeah, we can insert a picture! When you are in the edit post mode, you should see a little icon in the tool bar that looks like a picture. When you click that, you can browse your computer for your image and upload it. It will let you choose to add it left justified, right, or centered!
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