Hardcoregirl wrote:Francesca wrote:I'm going to have to put myself on a Torrid moratorium...I just spent too much money on a blue 50's halter dress with the cherries and a black bolero jacket.
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Don't shop there or at Hot Topic, I worked there for a year and a half and all their shit falls apart. Its not worth the price unless you are getting the 40 percent employee discount.
I appreciate your concern, but, unless the fabric tears, I can always sew it back up. If something is the cut or style I need I'm willing to do that. Because when you are 4'11", you have to find clothes where you can that are cut to fit you right. And frankly, Layne Bryant has gotten really frumpy lately.
So far the only thing I've had fall apart that I bought at Torrid is a really thin t-shirt that just developed tiny holes, but I've bought a pair of pants, a skirt, a shrug/sweater before and 2 pair of shoes before this last purchase and so far are all holding up fine.
I don't tend to buy any of the stretchy knitwear stuff as it tends to have a short half-life anyway and is usually serged badly together.. I usually buy items made of a sufficiently heavy/sturdy fabric that it lasts longer. It's one of the things you learn when you sew a lot is to evaluate the fabric. I also don't get things with lace attached as the lace they put on stuff is so prone to tearing up.
None of this will matter soon anyhow as I've only got one more size to go down before I'm free of shopping at either place.