I ordered a party dress but what I received looks NOTHING like it – I ‘look like a cheap Belle from Beauty & the Beast’
YOU always take a bit of a gamble when ordering clothes online, but this shopper had no idea just how bad her purchase would turn out to be.
Fashion influencer Anita Mwiruki, 30, tired on the party dress on TikTok to prove how awful it looked.
Anita ordered the off-the-shoulder dress from the brand Cherley but was floored when she opened the parcel to find a yellow dress rather than the posh party dress she saw on the website.
“10/10 never ordering from them again because what kind of scam shop is this?” she told The Post.
“I want a refund and them shut down. Because how many other people are they scamming?
“How many other items of work from other designers are they stealing?”
Anita forked out $79.98 (£63.56) on the gold gown, but almost two months later when it arrived she barely recognised it.
The fashion fan, who is from Seattle, US, shared a clip of her trying on the dress on TikTok and raged: “This is what came in the mail. I’ve been waiting, I don’t even know how long I’ve been waiting for this now.”
“Can you tell me which one is not like the other?” she continued as she showed the picture of the dress online.
After she shared the clip on social media other fashion fans couldn’t believe how bad the dress looked.
“You look like a cheap Belle from Beauty & the Beast I’m so sorry girl,” one joked.
A second commented: “My jaw hit the floor. Someone needs to be sued. Ain’t no way.”
Meanwhile, other TikToker users mused that the images of the dress online could be created by AI.
“That looks like an AI dress,” one said.
“You’ve got to learn to spot Photoshop,” another added.
“I saw this dress, and it said ‘pre-order.’ In my brain, when I hear and I see ‘pre-order,’ it makes me think, like, they are going to take the time to actually make this item. I’m waiting. Good things come to those who wait,” Anita explained in a series of follow-up videos.
She went on to explain that she even emailed the brand’s support team about a month after ordering the dress to see how much longer it would take, to which they told her it “might take 2-3 more weeks to prepare” the dress.
“I said, ‘wow, they’re really out here working hard, tirelessly to make this dress just chef’s kiss.
“Turns out I don’t know what the f**k they were doing the last two months, OK? I don’t know. I have so many questions,” she raged.
Cherley told The Post it is “committed to issuing full refunds to all customers who have purchased the affected products.”
“The batch of products in question did not meet our rigorous quality standards during the inspection process.
“Unfortunately, during the return operation, our warehouse personnel mistakenly returned this batch to inventory instead of processing it for disposal,” the statement read.
“As soon as we became aware of the error, immediate action was taken, and the affected product was promptly removed from our online platform.
“We are currently initiating a comprehensive product recall to ensure that all units are retrieved from the market.”