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 !)

I have no issue with buttons but when I was 10 my long untied hair flicked into the mixing bowl whilst baking a cake and the mixer nearly scalped me. I never thought to write to anyone about it (until now).

I'm a size 42 shoe btw.

My hair gets caught around other bits of my hair! Sometimes I've had to cut that out. I do want to complain to someone, but who..

I trapped my (wet) hair in the single button at the back of my top yesterday after swimming. It hurt.

The button is right at the bit of my back I can't reach due to massive pregnancy bump and the fact I was in my car. I was writhing around like a mad whale trying to unhook my hair.

I ripped it in the end. :(

Do I sue matalan for the button or the leisure centre for making my hair wet?

Size 5 shoe btw

slithy I misread your post and thought that your single hair had got trapped in your button. That would have been a calamity.

My dds hair often gets tangled in her hairbrush I'm going to sue poundland

This thread has made me howl with laughter! No sign of OP coming back. Obviously. But Chopin is doing a great job of keeping the faux indignation going, with the hand-wringing Save The Children drama.
Wouldn't you just love to be working in the a Monsoon customer services team when someone demands to know your 'testing procedures' for every random happening?

Also, as a teenager I managed to tangle my hair into a huge knot simply by shampooing it. I occupied the bathroom and INSISTED my brother ran to my mother's workplace to get her to leave work and come to my assistance.

He totally faked going and then coming back with updates until I realised.

Phew. Felt better to finally talk about my trauma, thank you Mumsnet!

I think it rather thoughtless of Monsoon to produce a dress with buttons at the back of the neck for a 9 year old to do up (or even a big footed 8 year old) . Im 40 something and have long hair and even I struggle to do up the buttons on some of my clothes at the back - thankfully my DH comes in handy . I havent checked my wardrobe to note where said clothes came from but suspect high street likely.

PS for those of you trapping your hair in cars have you ever closed the boot of your car onto your boobs (bloody painful) I do both and just wondered ifit was me?

Actually weeping at Sally and the calamity of the single hair!!! DH looking at me very oddly.

I think it rather thoughtless of Monsoon to produce a dress with buttons at the back of the neck for a 9 year old to do up

I'm guessing it comes in something like ages 4 through to 10, at the lower age (and to some extent the higher age) you'd expect a parent to be helping with buttons in hard to reach places.

Onesleeptillwembley I have lived in that town

Don't remember having any button trauma's there.....

Just as well, Gemma.

My dad once got his hair stuck in a huge sticky fly paper thingy he had in his greenhouse. The more he tried to get it out, the more it stuck to his hair. Had to wait for my mum to come home and cut it out. He had loads of hair did my dad until mum cut it all off

I had a nice sit down at the hairdressers yesterday. I had below the shoulder thick wavy hair. Imagine my surprise when she got her scissors tangled in my hair and left me with jaw length thinned out hair.

She got a sharply worded letter. Bitch.

I think yo need to relocate your daughter to an Amish community where buttons are not allowed. They are obviously on to something those people.

While she is there you can invent a button that is in fact a miniature tangle teaser and sell it to monsoon.

I frequently get my hair caught in my... wait for it... hairbrush.

Surely that's a design flaw! Or I could just be a complete idiot and not mastered the use of a hairbrush after nearly thirty years.

I personally hate buttons at the back, though. It's like a gymnastic activity trying to do them up! Save your poor DD the angst!

Definitely don't use nappy pins to construct an outfit, ItsFab - tangle possibilities at both ends. You want something more like a hat pin. OK, you'll probably stab yourself, and there's a high probability that they'll fall out and leave you standing naked in a pile of fabric at the most embarrassing moment possible, but your hair will be safe.

BeaLola boobs shut in the car boot?! I once shut my thumb in the car boot and that was bad enough!

Thank you so much for your advice PunkHedgehog. That is very helpful. I wouldn't want to stab myself. Especially given I trapped my hair in the sun visor of my car today for the first time and stabbed myself yesterday with a needle when sewing name tags onto new uniform.

I banged my head on the car boot once. Concussion. Banged it again 5 days later at the park and three days prior to that I had banged it on the car roof when strapping in DS2. This meant I knocked my neck out but didn't know so was walking around for 3 months with a vulnerable neck and only got diagnosed when I had several occurrences when I couldn't move my leg and once where I couldn't work out how to move.

I meant I wouldn't want to harm my hair. Especially given I have coloured it and it is so bright you can see me from space.

I get my hair hopelessly tangled every time I use my Babyliss Big Hair - which was helpfully recommended by this 'ere Mumsnet.

Hooting with laughter here but can't believe that I haven't spotted posts stating what I thought was the obvious?

This thread is really OP's job application for her long haired DD to become the official Monsoon garment safety tester for long haired girls' clothing (age 9 even though she's 8 because she's tall) and including shoes (in size 3½ please) Hence all the sizing details

I've been recounting the best bits to DH and he says I should tell you all that he lost a chunk of hair once in the zip of a jacket

It was a Barbour

Hope DD had a nice party despite all the frock carry on OP.

Exh had a cracking scar on his widge. From a pair of police issue trousers. He had to rush for something very urgent. So now there's police brutality in the mix.
Still makes me (now he's ex).

I once trapped myself in my anorak and my friend had to cut me out. I was 35 at the time.

Vestandknickers I have just laughed out loud for the first ever time at a mumsnet post! I salute you. It was the line 'my mum's gone chicken oriental' that did it.

CrapBag That would be me!

I tend to sleep with my head tilted back and in my side, and sometimes if I roll over in the wrong way I end up lay on my hair with my head still tilted back. Once on my back I can't really move without moving my head, but can't move my head cos I'm lay on it. This particular time my hair was all over the bed so wherever I put my arms they were on hair as well.

DP had to roll me. His reaction was one of weary resignation He's sort of used to these kinds of things. He's had to rescue me from the gap between the sofa and the wall before as well.