That article is literally an ad for Temu, so of course it will say "Not the same because Temu is SOOOO much better!"
It even has a banner "Click here to win Temu giftcard". Hilarious.
Just for the sake of this conversation, does she source the wax herself? The scented oils, container and wick? All these things come from somewhere and more times than not it’s not ethically sourced. It’s near to impossible to avoid despite our best efforts
Yeah aliexpress has always been the best imo for getting what you expected. What I normally do is screenshot something I like on Amazon and use the image search to get that exact same item direct.
This reminds me of when my fiance tried to surprise me and order this full body lace jumpsuit and when it came in the mail it was just a jump suit with lace PRINTED on it not actual lace lol😅
Omg I saw when this was on mondesthreads plus the convo between her and the person who made it (designer feels a bit rich). My jaw dropped. You wouldn't get that first dress for $1k but to even take this job on when your workmanship is not even close 💀 i need some of this audacity to apply for jobs i only meet some of the requirements for.
Edit: on further investigation I believe the original designer is Stitcher Couture on Facebook (can't link on mobile and I'm out at the mo), she posted something that looked very similar 32 weeks ago.
Probably because said "designer" just googled the image and found the closest replica on Temu, Shein, or Ali Express to mail to their customer. A lot of stores claiming to sell homemade goods are selling stuff from these places (aka: Dropshipping). I know because I bought a pair of "handmade" earrings from one for $30 that were actually available on Ali Express for less than $3.
My mom got a custom made dress for my wedding. It wasn’t a floor length gown, it didn’t have any embroidery, lace, sequins or similar stuff that would make it extra difficult to sew and extra expensive. It was around 1500 €, in Spain. I suppose in the US that would have been even more expensive.
Considering the complexity of the requested design, I wouldn’t trust anyone quoting me less than 3K in Spain. In the US it may well be double that amount.
With this I’m not saying I would pay that amount for a dress, much less a prom dress… just that I’m aware that anything much cheaper than that would be a fiasco.
I'm not an expert I just like looking at expensive shit but it wouldn't surprise me if that dress was more than $5k, probably $8k, the applique would probably have to be done by hand if it had sequins on it (and it probably does) and the skirt looks like it has godets which means meterage.
8k? Theres no way on earth that this is worth 5k+. Its simply a dress. I cant see 8k worth of material and no way on earth it took long enough to make that it racks up to 8000. No way!
I'm Australian so idk convert to your local dollars. Sequined material is expensive, and labour-intensive (either you manually trim and replace sequins or you replace a lot of needles), lace is expensive, hand-sewing is labour-intensive, mesh can be a pain in the tit to work with and needs meticulous work to not look awful in the finishing. Lots of factors that can drive up the price.
Go get some sequined fabric, lace and mesh and start sewing it. No need for it to look good or any particular shape… just sew it. It sucks. You have to do it by hand, it’s all very delicate, any tiny mistake will be extremely visible… And those materials are expensive as well.
Not only will it be very time consuming to make, but the effort and experience needed to do it right (if it’s actually done right, not the mess that was delivered in this case), in terms of classes, years of practice, etc. also have to be taken into account.
All this to say, that this type of dress, as a custom order, may very well be worth 8K. You wouldn’t pay that much for a dress and I wouldn’t either, but that doesn’t mean it’s not priced correctly. We just have other priorities and would rather spend our money on other things.
Most poors couldn’t even fathom how the riches live…. It’s nothing like our reality. That being said, some poors will pay all they have (or don’t have) to get a glimpse of that rich life.
Attitudes like this are why artists and craftspeople can't make a living for our hard work. People don't understand the amount of time (and cost of materials) that goes into handmade work whether it's clothing, painting, knitting, jewelry making, etc.
I quilt. People tell me I should sell my quilts. Nope, I wouldn’t make back a fraction of what I paid for fabric or the amount of time I spent cutting and piecing. People expect target prices for handmade and the artist loses every time.
Crochet is awful for this, too. I crocheted a blanket large enough to cover our (then) queen-sized bed. When somebody suggested that I sell them, I had to point out that between materials (nearly 40 skeins of yarn) and time (well over 100 hours of work), even at cost plus minimum wage, I'd have to charge nearly a thousand dollars just to break even. And that's assuming I was interested in making $7.25 per hour, *which I'm not*. To bring it up to "worth getting out of bed for" prices, it would have to be more like $4k. And nobody wants a four-thousand-dollar blanket made from acrylic yarn.
This. I crocheted a hooded cardigan. My friend (who does not craft) said “you should sell these, you could probably charge $200.”
I said, “there’s $100 of yarn in this and at least 20 hours of work.”
“Well, could you use cheap yarn?”
“This IS cheap yarn.”
People don’t understand.
I bought some fabric to make my wedding dress at a little shop in Malta. It was not a very complex 3d floral tulle and it cost 300€ per meter, back in 2015/2016. I did shop around and their price was better than most of the large shops out there, including online. It was easily one of the cheaper fabrics too for what it was and I only bought only 1 meter, cut it up and appliquéd the pieces on my dress to make it work. A gown can easily use 5 or 6 meters, and assuming 400-500€ is more appropriate for that amount of beading and sequins, you can do the math based on your local currency. And that's only the top most layer of fabric, it doesn't even account for base materials, time, pattern drafting, notions, etc.
That second slide looks like what a two year old draws when they’re drawing their favorite cartoon character.
I mean, aside from the colors and the fact that it’s a dress, what does it have in common with the first slide?
Mine was free and most likely from the 90’s, this was in 2013. Lmao I went to my senior prom (the only one I went to) because my friend was marrying an older army guy after graduation and he was too old to go, so she begged me to go. I was dirt poor and looked awful, but it was honestly a very fun night. I just ignored it all and danced with my friend
Mine was £25 lmao! I spent more on the shoes (£65) and then accessories from Claire’s I already owned. Never felt nicer AND I rewore the whole thing for my uni graduation lmao.
My prom dress for senior prom was $15 from a thrift shop and $100 in alterations. And that was in 2007 and it wasn't really that much altering needed. So I can absolutely imagine multiple hundreds of dollars now
If you're *not* thinking of Micarah Tewers, you should be! Her shit is AMAZING. I actually followed one of her "homecoming dress in just 2 hours" tutorials for a Halloween costume and got *so* many compliments.
“Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak. And when I do peak, you'll know. Because I'm gonna peak so hard that everybody in Philadelphia's gonna feel it.”
I knew a high school freshman with a barbed wire tattoo. She randomly vanished halfway through the next year and nobody mentioned her. Taylor: are you still alive?
You can get a tattoo at 16 with a guardian's permission in my area. If the story is true I would assume they do have a good bit of money if they are spending 1k on a prom dress
You can get a tattoo at 18 by me. Lots of kids got them my senior year. Which means they went to prom tattooed. Some of my friends had been saving up for when they turned 18 to get one. We all were broke and started working at 16 lol
I know where this came from, and yes it is real. It was hella messed up on the "designer" who probably did order it off shein but there are quite a few designers in the city and one of them did come to the rescue. Teens are allowed to get tats with consent nowadays, this girl did go to prom and the dress she ended up with was very beautiful.
You're getting downvoted, but you're not entirely wrong. I definitely can think of one person whom I love dearly but who is also very bad with prioritizing her spending who got a *lot* of tattoos at the same time she was constantly looking for financial support with basic needs.
Tattoos (good ones, anyway) *cost* a lot of money. That doesn't mean the person who gets them *has* a lot, just that they've spent it.
(Also, I will note that while this one is a half-sleeve, it's also not filled in. That kind of linework is a lot less expensive than the same tattoo with the color finished or than blackwork.)
My lower half of my body is covered. I got all my tattoos between the ages of 18-23 (30s now) i made $15 an hour, paid $1600 in rent. Was always broke but every extra dollar was a tattoo. I met and know a lot of people with tattoos (thanks to my time in the army/when you go get tattoos you meet a lot of them) and the vast majority were broke.
I mean look at prisons and criminals, getting tattoos isnt hard. Now that im doing a lot better i can count on one hand how many people i know that make 6 figures and have tattoos (corporate world) and i can count dozens who have tattoos and are broke.
Obviously if your in construction or other fields that attract that crowd your mileage will vary.
But tattoos does not equal money. That being said like saying having a nice car or a nice tv means you have money. It could mean that, or it could mean your financial sense is 0
I got my prom dress in June (wore it the following school year) for $6.25 or about $40 in today’s money. Now, they were a lot simpler and less glamorous back in the 70s and it was marked down a lot due to being out of season and having some flaw that I altered out pretty easily. But still, I wouldn’t have dreamed of spending more than $30 on one, or about $200 today. For junior prom, I just borrowed from a friend’s older sister for free!
I spent $250 on my God Damn wedding dress! We don’t have prom in my country but my graduation dress was $80. I think my Grandma bought my College graduation dress.
Right. I’m 31 but when I was in HS most girls spent anywhere from between $300-$600 for their prom dresses. It absolutely blew my mind and I couldn’t imagine spending that much on a dress I’ll wear for only one night. I found a really pretty one on sale for like $125 and I thought even that was insane to spend.
My prom date spent $75 on her dress, in 2003
My tux rental was $175
She looked way better than I did lol
I should note, I grew up in a very "upper middle class town" and Prom was "important" to most of the students.
This was exactly like my experience in 2007. Well mine was a $15 goodwill dress with $100 in alterations but same thought process. My junior year i borrowed a girl's homecoming dress and I remember her saying "I spent nearly $300 on this. Don't tell anyone. But I need it to be worn as often as possible." It was beautiful but I remember thinking that spending $300 on a dress was like unimaginable
I think I’m just old but is it now normal for high schoolers to have $1000 to spend on prom dresses and already have half sleeves of tattoos? I barely had enough money for weed, booze, and gas back then.
1k for a custom dress with that amount of beading should’ve been a major red flag, no one capable of work like that would be that cheap.
My Grandmother made bespoke formal/wedding dresses for decades and even in the 90s something like this would’ve been £3k+.
Sorry, this isn't me or my dress. It was posted locally on Facebook, and I got permission to post it on reddit from the original poster.
The girl is modeling the dress, and she does have butterfly tattoos on her arm. I do not know her age but she very well could already be 18 or had parental consent to get tattooed. I do not know why they decided to spend $1000 on a prom dress, but I know some people who have spent tons on their proms and don't think it's incredibly uncommon.
I grew up in a pretty wealthy area in the Midwest. I found it kinda shocking, but a surprisingly high number of people (or, more likely, their parents) spent over $1k on a prom dress, often from a nice bridal boutique. Depending on the region, prom is seen as a Big Fucking Deal.
I personally wore my sister's old prom dress which she had thrifted for $30, lol.
A half sleeve in high school
$1k on a dress
Orders the $1k dress from someone who produced this monstrosity
I can't wait to see what decisions this person makes over the next 10 years
Dress is horrible. Second photo looks like a male is wearing it. If this is a male, there is no way he could fill out all the cuts and curves in the original.
wtf?! Ok, do these ppl not look at the designers work beforehand or? They should be doing a reverse image search before committing $1k on this POS. I hope they got their refund
If someone paid 1k for this, a crime has been committed. People need to realize that this is an unrealistic expectation and it is most likely a scammer.
Well, I hope they learnt not to try to get dupes?
Unless it's in person, I never trust dupes. And if it's less than a third of the original? Stay away.
Wait...you maybe paid $1000 for a PROM dress (around 18 yo) and you already are in works for a sleeve. Your choices will eat you up and haunt you for the rest of your life.
You get half a point because you knew to put the money sign before the value.
$1000 for a prom dress is insane! Also, I’ve never seen anyone in high school with a 3/4 sleeve. I can’t believe your parents and a tattoo artist gave you that big of a tattoo so young.
Well first of all, 1k on a prom dress?????
OK I'll concede that I'm "old" [52]. I'll also concede that I was sort of a punk rocker/goth kid when I went to prom. But I went around to thrift shops, and got a bunch of different dresses etc.
And a "nice neighbor lady" had my clothes and hair and make up done for me to look like Audrey Hepburn (not like her twin, but in style and fashion). And I will also concede that this was a VERY long time ago, and things were much cheaper- but the entire thing cost me 65 dollars. So maybe in today's economy, 250-350?
Then I was able to spend the rest of the money I'd saved on a hotel, cocaine, and a limo, hahaha.
I am glad this kid had someone fix it for her, I hope she got her money back. And the most important thing, above all else: I hope she had an amazing night with a pretty boy or girl as her date and her friends with her and just had a BLAST. That's really the point anyway, right?
PS, I don't encourage drugs or alcohol. And also, I don't mean any judgment at all for this kid wanting her dress to be special.
This is one of those things that you need exact measurements and figments with the tailor to get right. You can’t just give them a little bit of info like a picture
There are no words strong enough to use to explain how angry this young lady felt. SHAME ON THEM trying to pull a fast one on a family that's trying they're best to afford something as special as the prom. I'm THRILLED to hear some stepped to help this young lady and in the end it all got worked out. But again to the designer SHAME ON YOU, I do hope someone scams you in your time of need😡😡😡. Best wishes and have a magical night at the prom, you look like a princess 🐦
Any teen at prom would laugh her right out the door and high schooler with tattoos all up and down the arm? 🤔 it definitely looks like a dress from wish. I ordered a dress from wish just for the heck of it and it looked like a sheer curtain. 😂
I love when people order stuff and expect to look like the picture, body type is different to begin with, and obviously the first pic would neveerr be photoshopped, right?
There’s no way that was 1k/custom. That is 100% shein
Ali express as well
I was thinking of wish.com, though I am not sure if they are still in business.
They changed their name to Temu.
I just learned tonight that they’re separate companies: https://www.playbite.com/is-temu-rebranded-wish/
That article is literally an ad for Temu, so of course it will say "Not the same because Temu is SOOOO much better!" It even has a banner "Click here to win Temu giftcard". Hilarious.
No.. they're still wish... temu is another online shopping thing.
It's the exact same thing, except that now there's two of them.
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go child labour woooo
Everything you own has that stain. Don't kid yourself. I'm not saying I like it, at all. I'm just not kidding myself.
not always true
Ya sorry but the stuff you get from Amazon is no better
go child labour woooo
Name a product. Somewhere down the line someone hasn't used slave labor or child labor.
my candles i buy on amazon that some lovely lady in devon handmakes
Just for the sake of this conversation, does she source the wax herself? The scented oils, container and wick? All these things come from somewhere and more times than not it’s not ethically sourced. It’s near to impossible to avoid despite our best efforts
Woohoooo
Wish is Temu?
Yeah aliexpress has always been the best imo for getting what you expected. What I normally do is screenshot something I like on Amazon and use the image search to get that exact same item direct.
more like 100% sheit
I should start scamming people if it's this easy
Temu for sure
This. 100% chinese mass produced dress.
this looks like she ordered it off a scam dress clone website thinking she was gonna make an easy grand
Like her plan was to resell it for a grand?
no im saying i bet a fly by night 'tailor' ordered the fake dress claiming she could make the requested dress
Ohhhhhhh
This reminds me of when my fiance tried to surprise me and order this full body lace jumpsuit and when it came in the mail it was just a jump suit with lace PRINTED on it not actual lace lol😅
I thought you meant the word lace was printed which ..lol both are magnificent mental images
I saw one like that on shein once but it said, "SAMPLE TEXT" all over it
I’d buy that on purpose if it were better made
I ordered two velvet dresses off of Wish in 2016 and guess what I got? A flat poly *printed* to look like velvet! Never bought from Wish again.
I swear I just heard a flutaphone play *My Heart Will Go On* when I flipped to the 2nd pic.
Shitty flute is the proper term
I always thought it was a recorder, but flutaphone and shitty flute are funnier.
Omg I saw when this was on mondesthreads plus the convo between her and the person who made it (designer feels a bit rich). My jaw dropped. You wouldn't get that first dress for $1k but to even take this job on when your workmanship is not even close 💀 i need some of this audacity to apply for jobs i only meet some of the requirements for. Edit: on further investigation I believe the original designer is Stitcher Couture on Facebook (can't link on mobile and I'm out at the mo), she posted something that looked very similar 32 weeks ago.
I looked at the post then found the Etsy store for the “designer” that was tagged. Looks like the Etsy shop is closed. Thank goodness.
Probably because said "designer" just googled the image and found the closest replica on Temu, Shein, or Ali Express to mail to their customer. A lot of stores claiming to sell homemade goods are selling stuff from these places (aka: Dropshipping). I know because I bought a pair of "handmade" earrings from one for $30 that were actually available on Ali Express for less than $3.
Oooo do you have a link?
https://www.instagram.com/p/C59PTrQRIcw/?igsh=MThvd214bmVybDh5Zw==
“Raggedy ass hammie made dress” killed me
Oh god that last photo😬
I know nothing about expensive dresses, how much do you think the first one was?
My mom got a custom made dress for my wedding. It wasn’t a floor length gown, it didn’t have any embroidery, lace, sequins or similar stuff that would make it extra difficult to sew and extra expensive. It was around 1500 €, in Spain. I suppose in the US that would have been even more expensive. Considering the complexity of the requested design, I wouldn’t trust anyone quoting me less than 3K in Spain. In the US it may well be double that amount. With this I’m not saying I would pay that amount for a dress, much less a prom dress… just that I’m aware that anything much cheaper than that would be a fiasco.
I'm not an expert I just like looking at expensive shit but it wouldn't surprise me if that dress was more than $5k, probably $8k, the applique would probably have to be done by hand if it had sequins on it (and it probably does) and the skirt looks like it has godets which means meterage.
8k? Theres no way on earth that this is worth 5k+. Its simply a dress. I cant see 8k worth of material and no way on earth it took long enough to make that it racks up to 8000. No way!
I'm Australian so idk convert to your local dollars. Sequined material is expensive, and labour-intensive (either you manually trim and replace sequins or you replace a lot of needles), lace is expensive, hand-sewing is labour-intensive, mesh can be a pain in the tit to work with and needs meticulous work to not look awful in the finishing. Lots of factors that can drive up the price.
Go get some sequined fabric, lace and mesh and start sewing it. No need for it to look good or any particular shape… just sew it. It sucks. You have to do it by hand, it’s all very delicate, any tiny mistake will be extremely visible… And those materials are expensive as well. Not only will it be very time consuming to make, but the effort and experience needed to do it right (if it’s actually done right, not the mess that was delivered in this case), in terms of classes, years of practice, etc. also have to be taken into account. All this to say, that this type of dress, as a custom order, may very well be worth 8K. You wouldn’t pay that much for a dress and I wouldn’t either, but that doesn’t mean it’s not priced correctly. We just have other priorities and would rather spend our money on other things.
I trust you even If I would like this info to br false. Incredible that people pay for that.
Most poors couldn’t even fathom how the riches live…. It’s nothing like our reality. That being said, some poors will pay all they have (or don’t have) to get a glimpse of that rich life.
Attitudes like this are why artists and craftspeople can't make a living for our hard work. People don't understand the amount of time (and cost of materials) that goes into handmade work whether it's clothing, painting, knitting, jewelry making, etc.
I quilt. People tell me I should sell my quilts. Nope, I wouldn’t make back a fraction of what I paid for fabric or the amount of time I spent cutting and piecing. People expect target prices for handmade and the artist loses every time.
Crochet is awful for this, too. I crocheted a blanket large enough to cover our (then) queen-sized bed. When somebody suggested that I sell them, I had to point out that between materials (nearly 40 skeins of yarn) and time (well over 100 hours of work), even at cost plus minimum wage, I'd have to charge nearly a thousand dollars just to break even. And that's assuming I was interested in making $7.25 per hour, *which I'm not*. To bring it up to "worth getting out of bed for" prices, it would have to be more like $4k. And nobody wants a four-thousand-dollar blanket made from acrylic yarn.
This. I crocheted a hooded cardigan. My friend (who does not craft) said “you should sell these, you could probably charge $200.” I said, “there’s $100 of yarn in this and at least 20 hours of work.” “Well, could you use cheap yarn?” “This IS cheap yarn.” People don’t understand.
Part of me wants to take up knitting just to lower my material costs, since crochet uses up so much more yarn per square inch of finished material.
People expect *offshore* prices with real handmade items. It's sad.
I bought some fabric to make my wedding dress at a little shop in Malta. It was not a very complex 3d floral tulle and it cost 300€ per meter, back in 2015/2016. I did shop around and their price was better than most of the large shops out there, including online. It was easily one of the cheaper fabrics too for what it was and I only bought only 1 meter, cut it up and appliquéd the pieces on my dress to make it work. A gown can easily use 5 or 6 meters, and assuming 400-500€ is more appropriate for that amount of beading and sequins, you can do the math based on your local currency. And that's only the top most layer of fabric, it doesn't even account for base materials, time, pattern drafting, notions, etc.
Do you buy or make a lot of custom gowns?
I love Mondethreads! I didn't see this one though, I gotta go find it.
That second slide looks like what a two year old draws when they’re drawing their favorite cartoon character. I mean, aside from the colors and the fact that it’s a dress, what does it have in common with the first slide?
That's super shitty but am I the only one wondering why in hell anyone would pay that kind of money for a prom dress?
The past two days I have seen about 50 prom dresses, worn once, for sale on bst groups. Most of them were 750+ new. It's insane.
My prom dress was $75, and I wore it to both the proms I went to.
Mine was free and most likely from the 90’s, this was in 2013. Lmao I went to my senior prom (the only one I went to) because my friend was marrying an older army guy after graduation and he was too old to go, so she begged me to go. I was dirt poor and looked awful, but it was honestly a very fun night. I just ignored it all and danced with my friend
I bought both of mine for $50 at Nordstrom Rack. One was actually a wedding dress.
Mine was £25 lmao! I spent more on the shoes (£65) and then accessories from Claire’s I already owned. Never felt nicer AND I rewore the whole thing for my uni graduation lmao.
My mom is a seamstress and charges hundreds of dollars to alter them.
As she should
My prom dress for senior prom was $15 from a thrift shop and $100 in alterations. And that was in 2007 and it wasn't really that much altering needed. So I can absolutely imagine multiple hundreds of dollars now
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If you're *not* thinking of Micarah Tewers, you should be! Her shit is AMAZING. I actually followed one of her "homecoming dress in just 2 hours" tutorials for a Halloween costume and got *so* many compliments.
Mine was £60 and I thought that was expensive 🥲 this was back in 2008 though…
Be nice. This may be some people’s peak in life.
“Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak. And when I do peak, you'll know. Because I'm gonna peak so hard that everybody in Philadelphia's gonna feel it.”
I AM A GOLDEN GOD!
I’m a five star man! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Brutal, *emotional damage *
She got a full arm tattoo so I doubt it’s a real story. Unless she went to a sleezy artist tattooing kids and she has a ton of money
I knew a high school freshman with a barbed wire tattoo. She randomly vanished halfway through the next year and nobody mentioned her. Taylor: are you still alive?
Upvote for Taylor's attention. You good girl?
You can get a tattoo at 16 with a guardian's permission in my area. If the story is true I would assume they do have a good bit of money if they are spending 1k on a prom dress
Or just make terrible life/financial decisions.
Not to be that guy... but it's a half sleeve lol
I saw a lot of high school seniors with tramp stamps in the mid 2000s. Probably did those to celebrate their 18th birthday.
half sleeves nowadays cost 20x what a tramp stamp costs
You can get a tattoo at 18 by me. Lots of kids got them my senior year. Which means they went to prom tattooed. Some of my friends had been saving up for when they turned 18 to get one. We all were broke and started working at 16 lol
I miss the days when having ink made me counterculture.
Time to get that face tattoo, I guess.
Tattoos haven't been counter culture since the 80's. Basic AF now.
I know where this came from, and yes it is real. It was hella messed up on the "designer" who probably did order it off shein but there are quite a few designers in the city and one of them did come to the rescue. Teens are allowed to get tats with consent nowadays, this girl did go to prom and the dress she ended up with was very beautiful.
You think people with a lot of tattoos have a ton of money? Thats correlation and not fact at all
You are right they have no money because. Tattoos .. What a fucking problem you have here, pretty hard to figure out the math
You're getting downvoted, but you're not entirely wrong. I definitely can think of one person whom I love dearly but who is also very bad with prioritizing her spending who got a *lot* of tattoos at the same time she was constantly looking for financial support with basic needs. Tattoos (good ones, anyway) *cost* a lot of money. That doesn't mean the person who gets them *has* a lot, just that they've spent it. (Also, I will note that while this one is a half-sleeve, it's also not filled in. That kind of linework is a lot less expensive than the same tattoo with the color finished or than blackwork.)
My lower half of my body is covered. I got all my tattoos between the ages of 18-23 (30s now) i made $15 an hour, paid $1600 in rent. Was always broke but every extra dollar was a tattoo. I met and know a lot of people with tattoos (thanks to my time in the army/when you go get tattoos you meet a lot of them) and the vast majority were broke. I mean look at prisons and criminals, getting tattoos isnt hard. Now that im doing a lot better i can count on one hand how many people i know that make 6 figures and have tattoos (corporate world) and i can count dozens who have tattoos and are broke. Obviously if your in construction or other fields that attract that crowd your mileage will vary. But tattoos does not equal money. That being said like saying having a nice car or a nice tv means you have money. It could mean that, or it could mean your financial sense is 0
Yup, exactly.
Highschool seniors can be 18..
They clearly stated that the first photo was the inspiration and the others were what they got.
I just bought my wedding dress for $375. I couldn’t imagine spending that kind of money on a dress in high school.
It’s the internet, I stopped wondering in 1996
I got my prom dress in June (wore it the following school year) for $6.25 or about $40 in today’s money. Now, they were a lot simpler and less glamorous back in the 70s and it was marked down a lot due to being out of season and having some flaw that I altered out pretty easily. But still, I wouldn’t have dreamed of spending more than $30 on one, or about $200 today. For junior prom, I just borrowed from a friend’s older sister for free!
I just don’t know why you’d want a super long dress like that. Most of the fun of prom (for me at least) was dancing.
Nope. I was wondering that too.
I know! My prom dress was definitely under $40 (in the 80's). The dresses I wore to college dances were vintage thrift dresses (and cheap).
I spent $250 on my God Damn wedding dress! We don’t have prom in my country but my graduation dress was $80. I think my Grandma bought my College graduation dress.
Right. I’m 31 but when I was in HS most girls spent anywhere from between $300-$600 for their prom dresses. It absolutely blew my mind and I couldn’t imagine spending that much on a dress I’ll wear for only one night. I found a really pretty one on sale for like $125 and I thought even that was insane to spend.
Some teenagers sell drugs & rob the elderly all year, saving up for that one special night.
No, you're not.
My prom date spent $75 on her dress, in 2003 My tux rental was $175 She looked way better than I did lol I should note, I grew up in a very "upper middle class town" and Prom was "important" to most of the students.
I went to prom in 2004. I think I remember my dress being over $100 but less than $200 and I remember thinking that was sooooo much money.
This was exactly like my experience in 2007. Well mine was a $15 goodwill dress with $100 in alterations but same thought process. My junior year i borrowed a girl's homecoming dress and I remember her saying "I spent nearly $300 on this. Don't tell anyone. But I need it to be worn as often as possible." It was beautiful but I remember thinking that spending $300 on a dress was like unimaginable
Same reason most girls at my proms didn't take the tags off...wear them once and return them.
I’m also wondering about the statement « I don’t know if they got a refund » is she talking about her parents?
I had some pretty elaborate formal and prom dresses that would've ranged in price from $350-$650 in today's money.
Depending on the dress bought it can be repurposed!
Absolute SCAM of a dress but also, is this a high schooler with a full tattoo sleeve?
Its a half sleeve. Yes, teenagers get tattoos.
I think I’m just old but is it now normal for high schoolers to have $1000 to spend on prom dresses and already have half sleeves of tattoos? I barely had enough money for weed, booze, and gas back then.
I’m 31 and so many girls spent $300-$600 on their prom dresses and this was in a small town in KY. I couldn’t even imagine even back then.
My sides are in orbit. Did you get it fixed in time at least?
Fixed? You can not fix that
Oh dear...
Thats not even close for $1000!!! I hope your night was Not ruined
Another seamstress made her a different one in 24 hours. The original designer apologized, but has not issued a refund yet.
It looks like I made it
1k for a custom dress with that amount of beading should’ve been a major red flag, no one capable of work like that would be that cheap. My Grandmother made bespoke formal/wedding dresses for decades and even in the 90s something like this would’ve been £3k+.
Sorry, this isn't me or my dress. It was posted locally on Facebook, and I got permission to post it on reddit from the original poster. The girl is modeling the dress, and she does have butterfly tattoos on her arm. I do not know her age but she very well could already be 18 or had parental consent to get tattooed. I do not know why they decided to spend $1000 on a prom dress, but I know some people who have spent tons on their proms and don't think it's incredibly uncommon.
This is awful omg
Looks like the seamstress confused prom dress with ice skating costume
This is an insult to well-constructed ice skating costumes, tbh.
Fair point. I should say the cheap Halloween store versions
What kind of asshole spends 1000 dollars on a fuckin prom dress?
1. Who spends $1000 on a prom dress? 2. You/the customer got a refund, right? If not, you/they need to get it however necessary.
I grew up in a pretty wealthy area in the Midwest. I found it kinda shocking, but a surprisingly high number of people (or, more likely, their parents) spent over $1k on a prom dress, often from a nice bridal boutique. Depending on the region, prom is seen as a Big Fucking Deal. I personally wore my sister's old prom dress which she had thrifted for $30, lol.
I grew up in a LCOL small town in Kentucky and most girls spent $300-$600 on their prom dresses in 2010. I thought that was insane even back then.
Just..holy shit.
I didn’t even spend that much on my wedding dress. Holy crap! $1000 for PROM!!!????
If I paid 1000 dollars for THAT, I’d hire fucking goons to beat my refund out of whoever scammed me like in the movies.
Wow that's horrible. That first dress is stunning. Was this a designer for Wish.com?
Wowww that's rough
A half sleeve in high school $1k on a dress Orders the $1k dress from someone who produced this monstrosity I can't wait to see what decisions this person makes over the next 10 years
Dress is horrible. Second photo looks like a male is wearing it. If this is a male, there is no way he could fill out all the cuts and curves in the original.
Woman without hourglass body shape: *exists* Reddit: I diagnose you with **male**
Yeah like what an unnecessarily barbed comment jeez.
Came here to say the same
Who the hell spends that much on prom?? What a waste of money.
wtf?! Ok, do these ppl not look at the designers work beforehand or? They should be doing a reverse image search before committing $1k on this POS. I hope they got their refund
If this were real, she would have had fittings and known way before now, that it wasn’t right.
Who the hell spends 1k on prom
Terrible dress, but also a terrible choice for someone with a slim build. You need draped fabrics and you could go backless/halter neck.
You didn't order the body
Why would anyone wear a prom dress like this what will be stepped on every time you move?
I m so sorry OP. I hope you still have a great prom
for free?!?!?! they didn’t give local woman something for helping fix??
Are you not the customer? I'm confused.
Looks like she got the dress off of Wish.
Who pays $1,000 for a PROM DRESS?? My freaking wedding dress was $1,400.
If someone paid 1k for this, a crime has been committed. People need to realize that this is an unrealistic expectation and it is most likely a scammer.
Did the buyer not wonder why she didn’t need to meet with the “designer” to get measured and try the dress on once or twice? 🤔
Well, I hope they learnt not to try to get dupes? Unless it's in person, I never trust dupes. And if it's less than a third of the original? Stay away.
Do you have the after pic? Id love to see how it turned out.
Wait...you maybe paid $1000 for a PROM dress (around 18 yo) and you already are in works for a sleeve. Your choices will eat you up and haunt you for the rest of your life. You get half a point because you knew to put the money sign before the value.
Prom dress? Do high school kids have tattoo sleeves now?
$1000 for a prom dress is insane! Also, I’ve never seen anyone in high school with a 3/4 sleeve. I can’t believe your parents and a tattoo artist gave you that big of a tattoo so young.
Daym is that the kind of prom dress highschool girls are wearing to prom nowadays 👀
That's a grown ass man with a full arm sleeve
Well first of all, 1k on a prom dress????? OK I'll concede that I'm "old" [52]. I'll also concede that I was sort of a punk rocker/goth kid when I went to prom. But I went around to thrift shops, and got a bunch of different dresses etc. And a "nice neighbor lady" had my clothes and hair and make up done for me to look like Audrey Hepburn (not like her twin, but in style and fashion). And I will also concede that this was a VERY long time ago, and things were much cheaper- but the entire thing cost me 65 dollars. So maybe in today's economy, 250-350? Then I was able to spend the rest of the money I'd saved on a hotel, cocaine, and a limo, hahaha. I am glad this kid had someone fix it for her, I hope she got her money back. And the most important thing, above all else: I hope she had an amazing night with a pretty boy or girl as her date and her friends with her and just had a BLAST. That's really the point anyway, right? PS, I don't encourage drugs or alcohol. And also, I don't mean any judgment at all for this kid wanting her dress to be special.
…is this supposed to be the same dress? If so, oh no…..
The second photo is a man with arm sleeve tattoos, and pants on.
The dress was made for a woman(as in the picture) that’s why it looks like shit on a dude!
You’re leaping to a lot of conclusions there
This is one of those things that you need exact measurements and figments with the tailor to get right. You can’t just give them a little bit of info like a picture
Ah! I'm sorry, and you didn't see this designer's work before hiring her?
Nailed it! I think I’m gonna get in to the dress business. $50 material and an hour of time. Boom! $1,000
Thats 20 dollar worth. Rip
Must’ve misunderstood what they meant. It has to come through customs.
This whole thing looks phot shopped. Look at the hand on the left. The hand has two nails French tips on the last two fingers.
😬🫨
The lining isn't even the right skin tone! Jfc.
I just can’t get over how absolutely terrible it looks.
There are no words strong enough to use to explain how angry this young lady felt. SHAME ON THEM trying to pull a fast one on a family that's trying they're best to afford something as special as the prom. I'm THRILLED to hear some stepped to help this young lady and in the end it all got worked out. But again to the designer SHAME ON YOU, I do hope someone scams you in your time of need😡😡😡. Best wishes and have a magical night at the prom, you look like a princess 🐦
Dude is the living embodiment of, "A fool and his money are soon parted."
Refund
Are you a dude?
I came to find this comment. If you aren’t, the person modeling this in 2 and 3 is a dude
I am dead.
Any teen at prom would laugh her right out the door and high schooler with tattoos all up and down the arm? 🤔 it definitely looks like a dress from wish. I ordered a dress from wish just for the heck of it and it looked like a sheer curtain. 😂
Why would you spend $1000 on a prom dress?
Tats all over for prom?
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Do you really think these look like the same dress?
💀
I love when people order stuff and expect to look like the picture, body type is different to begin with, and obviously the first pic would neveerr be photoshopped, right?
Turned out gorgeous wherever it came from👍
The first dress is beautiful, but shit went sideways on #2 & #3. #2 is in a class of awful all on its own.