Monsoon Dress buttons caught in DD hair

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Hello. I am trying to find out if anyone one else has had a similar problem with a monsoon summer dress. The dress has tiny square buttons down the back and when my daughter wore it to her birthday party on Saturday her hair became entangled badly enough that I had to cut it away from the buttons. I have been complaining to monsoon and they have assured me that the dress was tested but were unable and possibly unwilling to tell me how this was done with a child with long hair. My daughter's hair is quite long and it was French plaited with the length of the plait coming down the middle of her back so it was testing on the buttons. I think there is nothing unusual about the my 8yr ( she was 8 on Sunday, this dress is age 9 because my daughter is very tall, she has size 3.5 feet ) old having this hair style.

Monsoon were quick to tell me that no one else has complained. IN interested in trying to find other people that have had similar clothing issues. Has anyone ?!

(also if there is a better place to place this please tell me !)

What would EKL do?

Buy some wooden brogues

" Add message | Report | Message poster EduCated Wed 20-Aug-14 10:35:49
Yesterday I managed to trap myself in bed by lying in my own hair in such a position that I couldn't move to release it. I had to call DP to release me

:o :o :o

Cut the buttons off instead of cutting the hair, then you can sew them back on and it will look like new, quicker than the hair growing back.

OP this is not exclusively a monsoon problem! DD got her hair entangled on any garment that had buttons down the back or at the back of the neckline, so much so that I took scissors to the lot of them and chopped those buttons off. Problem solved. I also stopped buying anything with buttons down the back.

To whoever asked, a gogo hamster is not a real hamster. They were the must have Christmas toy a few years back.

Classic thread! Had some really awful news today, and somehow, despite it, in sitting here with tears of laughter rolling down my face. Thanks one and all; you are legends!

has jesus got wood?

owl bakelite i'm afraid but a bugger nonetheless... Nearly did my neck in

I NEED to know how the poster got herself trapped in bed by her hair and had to be released by her DP (and what was his reaction).

A poster asked if anyone has never caught their hair. I haven't! And it's usually past my shoulders length, and I wear glasses and drive so plenty of hair catching opportunities.

This has been a good read though, and baffling! How the hell has so many women caught their hair, some in frankly bizzare circumstances?

I did get my tongue stuck to an ice cube that was in the tray though, can that count?

There was an awful story recently about a girl with long hair who was driving with the window open and it wrapped around the steering, causing a fatal crash. So yes in SOME cases it is very dangerous. I'd say wearing a mid priced high street brand with ugly floral print is probably not one of those.

I vaguely remember something about classic threads, what are the criteria for a thread to be acknowledged as an official classic thread?

Does anyone know?

Can't stop smiling to myself at a pp's hair getting stuck to her lip gloss! !

Oh my goodness - I have never laughed so much. This has cheered me up no end after a migraine filled day.

I never thought I would see posts about button testing procedures and the words 'ocular proof' in the same thread.

Actually can I sue MN and all of you with hang entanglement stories? I feel left out: short hair and no history of winding it round things.

I'm 5'4" with size 5 and half feet. Quite broad with a high instep for someone quite short. My feet, obviously!

Feeling sorry for the poor soul in Monsoon who had to try and reason with you!

Next time...

1. cut off the buttons NOT the hair.
2. sew buttons back on.
3. get a bloody grip!

Misfitless, report the op using the report link along on the right of her name, make sure that Report for other reasons is clicked, and the fill in the box with whatever it is you want to say (ie, think this should go in to Classics, or whatever).

I don't know what HQ's criteria are.

I agree with Chopin comments about the child's physical appearance are pretty off vestandknickers (and really did nothing to make your post any funnier) whether she's going to read it or not has nothing to do with it. Obviously

I fear for that child, really I do. She's at risk of serious trauma in later life - at the very least a phobia of buttons. It's called Koumpounophobia actually and it's a real thing:

www.10mostcommonphobias.com/button_phobia/button_phobia.html

Sorry if I missed this upthread but why the photo of the label?

To help identify the exact dress and to see whether dozens of MNers have also been cutting their daughters' hair from around the buttons

Bit of a long shot, eh?

There's a small town near where I was brought up. It's nickname is 'Cows yed (head) city. The story is that a cow got its head stuck in a gate and instead of cutting a bar of the gate, the farmer (obviously inbred) cut off the cows head.

I got my budgie caught in my hungover bedhead hair once. Was awful, he was screaching away, I was on the phone and trying to find scissors to cut my hair, trying not to be sick as the cold sweat of sambuca came over me.

We survived.

but but but...hair/buttons - a match made in hell surely?

This thread is brilliant!

vestandknickers It's OK, not all of us have lost our sense of humour!!