While I loved the dress and received numerous compliments, there were 2 major disappointments. The first was one was the hemming job. I am very short so definitely needed to get the dress hemmed. I went on Thursday before the event and waited 30 minutes for the seamstress who took a different lunch break (430-5pm) than what is advertised (4-430pm). The RTR staff was extremely apologetic and felt bad that I was waiting for 30+ minutes. Luckily, my office is a few blocks away and it was late in the day so it ended up not being a big deal. When the seamstress finally came and was pinning my dress for the hem, we talked about how she would also hem the lining and the tulle under the dress (obviously right). Since we had explicitly discussed this, I didn't check the dress when I picked it up the next day. On Saturday (day of my friend's wedding), I was absolutely shocked to see the lining had NOT been hemmed. It was an hour before I was supposed to be at the venue and so in a panicked frenzy, I began to pin the lining and tulle myself, but it was just so difficult to do and kept sticking out from under my dress. I kept tripping over it and it definitely was in the way most of the night. Although it was not noticeable by most people unless they stepped on it, was a disappointment. The second thing was that there were wires coming out of the top part of the dress (i.e. the bust area) and they kept poking me!! It was uncomfortable and painful at times and looked weird when I was sticking my hands in my dress from the top to adjust and push the wires away.

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ML Monique Lhuillier

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Size Worn: 0R

Usual Size: 0

Height: 5' 0"

Weight: 102lbs

Bust: 32C