Shopping for a ‘special’ dress used to be straightforward – take a trip to the nearest high street, visit your preferred shops, search through the rails, try on a load and buy the one you like best.
Now though, the high street has all but disappeared and the widest choices are all online.
I’m currently in need of a Mother-of-the-Groom garment (for September) and have looked at so many that I’m in danger of going dress blind.
Here’s my gripe: if you order one dress, wait for it to arrive, try it on, decide it’s doesn’t in fact suit you, return it, wait for your refund, order the next attempt, wait for it to arrive… It takes forever! But if you order a selection at you commit hundreds of pounds at once for the privilege of trying them on at home.
My DH is of the opinion that I shouldn’t order another until I’ve rejected the first. He also can’t understand why I don’t just go to John Lewis and get one. I’ve tried to tell him that even JLP is unlikely to have all the ones I’ve seen online, in my size. (And changing rooms when you are 62 and round are not fun.)
Not after any suggestions for a suitable dress – just wanted to rant quietly!