We have a local company in Aberdeen who sell children's clothes from South Africa and Australia through party plan and craft fayres.
Like anything at party plan, its NOT CHEAP..!!
The owner buys up unsold stock from SA and Aus, and then sells it over here in the UK because the seasons are the opposite (so she'll buy unsold winter clothes at the end of the SA and Aus winter season which is the beginning of our winter season).
I went to a party at a friend's house at the beginning of December and bought a few things for my DDs there....
Initially I was a bit disappointed as there were items in the catalogues that weren't available at all.
Then when I recieved the goods, the skirt I ordered for DD1 was different to what I had ordered (I ordered a pink cord skirt and what arrived was dark blue denim in the upper half and pink cord lower - nice enough for me still to keep but not "right")...
I also ordered a t-short and trousers for DD2 - when they arrived they didn;t match as wella s I hoped, so I returned the trousers (in lilac cord) and had them replaced with dark denim - the local company's customer service was very very good at this point...!!
However, the girls both had their clothes on on boxing day - I'm just doing the ironing and DD2's dark denim jeans have a faded patch on them already (she walks, so its not like she was crawling in them, its not on the knee anyway, just a random bit that is now paler than the rest) and her t-shirt has a hole in it - she wasn't playing with scissors or impaled on anything sharp all day, just a random hole that has appeared in the middle of the front. Together these items cost about £23.
1 wear, 1 wash
As I say the local company have been really good, but I just think the quality of these clothes is shocking - maybe thats WHY they are left at the end of the Australian season. I don't really expect a refund as they have been worn (lightly - she was at church for most of it..!!) but I certainly won't be buying anything else from this range.
Do you think I should just suck it up and she can wear them to do painting in (£23 for painting clothes...!!!) or should I send them back to the local supplier and say "sorry, the quality of these items is rubbish"...