dress fitting

Today I went for my first dress fitting.  It's where they take your measurements so that they can alter the dress.

My experience at Fairytales Bridal in Moonee Ponds has been mediocre since Day 1 when I went bridal shopping there.  The staff are women in their 40-50's and seem to love the sound of their own voices because they talk talk talk and talk.  And they're quite bossy/ pushy.

I bought my dress from Fairytales Bridal in Croydon and had it transferred to Moonee Ponds for convenience as it's closer.  The staff at Crydon were nicer.  Not so in-your-face.

Anyway so my fitting was at 4pm.  I arrived at 4:05pm, walked in and said I had a 4pm appointment.  Lady at reception just smiled and nodded so I sat myself down.  I waited a good two minutes and had to entertain myself looking at dresses before another staff member asked if I was there for a fitting.

So finally I'm in my dress and the seamstress is making suggestions on what we can do.  She's going to take the bodice down a size - first she asked if I wanted extra padding sewn into the bust - I declined.  The hem also need to be shortened and we looked at how high my bustle should be.  Total cost?  au$320.  The skirt isn't as fitted as I would like it to be but she recommended that we leave it as is.  I'm not sure how I feel about it.

After the measurements and I had changed out of the dress, I decided to look at some veils.  Another girl had come in for her fitting but she stayed in the change room and wouldn't come out to the open area like I had.  She initially had one saleslady with her, but soon she had three - including mine.  Why?  Because she had a meltdown about her weight after trying the dress on.

The dress was too small but she didn't want to pay for alternations.  She was determined to lose weight.  With her wedding being in December (I couldn't help overhearing), I don't know how she'll manage to go down 3 dress sizes.  Lucky for her the salesladies gave her some weight loss tips.

The check-out process took forever; once again I had to wait because they were talking too much.  To each other and to ms hysterical.  

An hour later I was able to leave.  $2000 poorer than when I went in.