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No. If you want to rent a dress use rent the runway. Don’t buy a dress and pretend you never wore it.
Why do you need a really nice super well made dress that you only wear once? Usually you want really high quality for things to last. And yes, you can get cheaper things that look nice. You just apparently have expensive taste or really like name brands, so that costs more. If you aren't willing to pay it, then you shouldn't get to wear it either
Yes, I return them. And what about it?
You all should be washing/dry cleaning newly bought clothes anyway.
And I don’t want to hear anything about “what about people trying on your worn dress” - I guarantee the stores don’t dry clean dresses on racks daily or even weekly. When you try it on in store, you will be wearing what dozens of people did before you wore too. Perhaps over the span of multiple months. Again, this is why you shower when you get home and dry clean what you just bought 🙄
And no one gives a damn about your financial advice.
Give it a break. Return the dress if you barely wore it and will never wear it again.
Actually most of the time when you purchase a wedding dress it is special ordered for you. You just try on a sample that the store has then they order your size. It takes dresses typically 6mon to come in. So most stores won’t sell a sample because then it’s gone for so long they can’t make anymore sells of it till it comes back in. But a $400 dress was most likely bought off the rack which typically means all sales are final anyways which is typical with weddings dresses unless it’s David’s. They typically follow a corporate return policy.
It’s not new. You wore it for a few hours and probably got at least a tiny bit sweaty in it. Do the right thing and sell it or rent it out but don’t just return it.
No, consign it to “the real real” or try selling it yourself.
Rising Star
Ew I’d hate to be the person who buys that next.
As someone who owns a retail store this is not okay. Someone either sold that dress to you as part of their business that they support their family on or they earned commission from the time they spent selling you that dress. Even if you bought it online or at a department store without a sales person’s help you’re contributing to the waste that retail stores produce because they’ll never be able to resell that dress at their retail price. Your options are find somewhere else to wear it, donate it, or sell it consignment somewhere or on poshmark.
Post a pic of the dress so we wont accidentally buy your worn dress
Rising Star
No. You wore it for several hours, it’s not new. Consign or sell it yourself but don’t lie and return it. Next time, use rent the runway.
Why do people even ask for opinions on stuff like this if they really just want to hear one answer?
You asked a question in a public forum and people answered. Next time if you need validation then ask for that instead.
You shouldn’t have bought a $400 dress if you thought you might need to return it, even if “for a few hours”. That means you can’t comfortably afford it.
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That’s a terrible question. No. And remember karma…
List it on Poshmark.
Would you want to be that person that bought someone else’s sweaty dress?
Well, you can. But you shouldn’t. I don’t know if your question is from a practical point - in this sense you can just go to the store and try to return (you wore it for a wedding without removing the tag?). If you ask it from a moral perspective, the answer is no, it is not honest. And if you bought an expensive dress to look beautiful at a party, you didn’t remove the tag, you used the dress to fit your purpose and now you return it, that’s not the return policy. The return policy is to protect the customer rights, but when we abuse our rights, policies can be reviewed and changed, this is bad faith. It’s more up to your values and your priorities, but if you’re asking here, you are willing to reflect. The right thing to do now is to resell it.
As a former retail manager, no, please don’t do it. That is what rent the runway is for. Post for sale on Poshmark and see what you can get!
Chief
I can’t believe this is even a question 🤦♀️
Ugh no. Never. Seriously like everyone else said - rent the runway. I don’t want to buy a new dress, that I plan to keep, for full price after you’ve worn it to a wedding. Gross.
I can totally see both sides of the story. I guess for me it depends on why you would be returning it. If you really like the dress and it fits well maybe find a way to repurpose it to be more useful. You could get it shortened or something for pretty cheap. That being said, I’ve been in the situation where I’ve returned something that I wore, but it was always because after trying to wear it I realized that it didn’t suit me / didn’t fit well. Also, I can totally understand how this would largely impact a boutique or smaller business, but its hard for me to feel bad about returning something to an ASOS or Dept. Store when markups are so high anyway.
OP hon literatally said “can I return it?” Then got mad when you didn’t receive the echo chamber comments you thought you would. Grow up and buy from ASOS next time.
Why can’t you just wear the dress again? Get your moneys worth out of it
Thats so wrong! Next time just rent