FASHION : WHAT YOU ORDERED MIGHT BE WHAT YOU DESERVED!!!

WHAT YOU ORDERED MIGHT BE WHAT YOU DESERVED!!!

I most times find it very amusing when I scroll through my timeline on social media and stumble on complaints about a wrong delivery from an online clothes vendor or how a particular tailor didn’t get fits right. It would usually go with the caption ‘‘what I ordered versus what I got’’.

 What makes it really funny are the hilarious comments on the posts but when I slip my feet in their shoes and think of the money spent, the humiliation because more often than not, the outfits are usually worn with the dress-to-kill goal but here is the story other way round.

I would usually suggest that the tailors or vendor spent at least a year in prison for such a fraudulent act.

How do you see something and then make or deliver something else entirely because your brain told you so. If you ask me, it is just an act of wickedness and most importantly, saying you cannot make the style shouldn’t be an act of weakness but strength.

Well, like it’s often said, there are always two sides to a story just like a coin. So today and maybe sometimes, let’s put our accusing fingers down, flip the page and read the story of the ‘culprit’. The customers might just have deserved what they got and here’s why.

High expectations with an empty pocket. 

Earlier on, I made mention of how that the goal is usually to dress to kill, well that would mean one needs a good amount of money to achieve this. ‘‘Cut your coat according to your size’’ they say, but most customers have long gotten rid of their scissors. You can still look stunning to that event without pulling an ‘‘Ebuka’’. Just pull a ‘‘you’’ to avoid heart breaking stories.

The Cinderella effect.

The shoe won’t fit, it’s not just for you sis or bro. You don’t look like the person in the picture whom the outfit suits perfectly, hence I think its key to first be truthful to yourself and understand what would fit your shape and size before going to your tailor or ordering a particular outfit.

Can your tailor ever?

No dear, your tailor cannot. 

Don’t take a picture of an outfit designed or sewn by a Mai Atafo or a Deola Sagoe to Iya Basirat and expect her to give you a replica. How do you expect Kabiru who doesn’t have an industrial sewing machine to sew that Ebuka style bro?

You get coconut head

I’ve heard stories of how the tailor would tell the customer to come for measurements and the customer would decline and would send the measurements via text instead. Some would even ask their younger siblings who just started learning fashion designing yesterday to take their measurement, aunty, your coconut head is what is setting you up for disappointment.

Photoshop happened 

Don’t forget that a lot of things go into making a picture captivating that would lure your interest in wanting to make or order the outfit even the photographer sef do some editing.  While the real dress is supposed to be flat at the front but your tailor had to sew a pocket for your stomach when you won’t stop eating Amala at 2am, Aunty Moji, o wrong na!!! 

All these aren’t supposed to discourage you from ordering online but to help in making wise judgements most especially before uploading a what-I-ordered-vs-what I got post. Or maybe don’t make wise judgements, the pictures are always hilarious and a good laugh doesn’t kill.