The Dress Abusers

This is so irritating beyond belief. Now can I point out ladies that a wedding shop will have dresses which retail at well over £1,000 each which means they have most likely spent the value of a detached house in Escrick to get them on the rails so the system in a wedding shop is a little different to that of Dorothy Perkins.

For example we do not like it when you push all the dresses into one clump on the rail and proceed to pull one after the other across as if searching for another pair or hipsters in the summer sale at Miss Selfridge. Neither do we consider it big or clever to then pull out a £2,500 gown standing on the skirt has you pull it towards you mother waving it around the room.

I especially despise those that think it super fun to push the hanger still attached to the dress behind your head so as to dangle the dress in front of you stretching the neckline out of all realistic shape and leave a beautiful greasy lip gloss imprint on the front. And the final insult the ladies that seem to think as it is a sample it really doesn’t matter if, after trying on, they are discarded on the floor and stood on whilst trying the next style with their stilleto heels.

I had a bride and her mother in the studio once looking at bridal gowns, she had a budget of £1,000 exclaiming that this was an extremely large amount of money (which it is). The mother proceeds to drag through the rail pulling at a £3500 silk tulle bridal gown. I asked her to take a seat and we would go through the rail for her, she carried on dragging through the rail stamping on each dress as she went. I asked again to which she replied,

“Well how else am I to see the dresses”.

Now I could feel the blood begining to rise and thought steam would come out of my ears at this point. I replied ...

“If you take a seat I will show them all to you”

She snorted at me and replied with

“they're only samples what’s the problem”.

Now at this point I could imagine sliding my size 7 shoe towards her posterior and sending her in the direction of the stairs (or better still through the sash window into the street below her bum skimming the cobbles as she went).

I simply took a deep breath, counted to ten and said

“Well yes they are indeed samples as you say but as these gowns range from £1500-4000 and I have paid for each and every one of them myself you can imagine I must take care of them and a bride would not want to try on a dirty ripped sample would she?"

She took her seat as if a scolded child and I felt much better. Her daughter after trying on a couple of gowns apologised for her mothers ignorance and left the shop after happily promising to return without mother in tow.