I ordered an evening gown online from Darius Cordell Designs, after seeing photos on their website of "sample" couture dresses. I paid over $600 and had the dress express mailed to me.
The gown was beautiful and I was thrilled —until I tried it on and discovered, while it was a perfect fit, it had a rather crucial flaw it its design: The 1-strap gown did not have any "boning" or anything in the bodice to keep the one side from falling over and exposing the breast. I asked Darius Cordell for suggestions on how to deal with this, and received nothing but curt replies telling me I could take it to my alterationist and do as I pleased— (In other words, you're on your own, sucker.)
My alterationist couldn't figure out how to fix this bad dress design, without completely changing the dress. The responses from Cordell were repeatedly rude and arrogant, blaming my alterationist for being "incompetent" when it was clearly Cordell's designer who was incompetent. Darius Cordell ripped me off for over $600 on a dress that looks great on the hanger, but is clearly inferior and unwearable.
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