Well maybe it is more common than I thought!
Maybe I've always bought clothes that already fitted me?
On the subject of cutting clothes with sharp scissors/ tailor’s shears, if man made material you can just get away with cutting and not hemming, tho I prefer to hem.
Last year I cut the sleeves by quite a bit on a jumper from M&S that turned out to have sleeves long enough for a gorilla.
I didn’t hem in that case as it looks fine, it won’t unravel as it isn’t wool.
mum2three
How many shop assistants are able to go into detail on the fabric of the clothes they sell? She could have simply said, 'I don't know anything about the fabric, I just sell the clothes.' You were lucky that she had time to talk to you at all.
This is a small independent shop with a small number of regular customers. There is rarely anyone else there when I go in and believe me they do talk in detail about the clothes they sell. I've been going in there on and off for years.
Bluebelle no it wasn't a hard sell. I really think some people buy that fabric so they can cut it to fit if they are on the short side. I just never came across this before so maybe they are just going this stuff from China and hoping people won't notice.
Interestingly a young man came in before I left looking for a size ten skirt presumably for a woman in his life- she showed him one similar to mine just as I was leaving. To be fair like a lot of women's fashion shops they don't have may skirts or dresses- just separates which is why I liked the skirt.
Yes, charity shops are my style but we don't have one on our high street since Covid. I have to go further away for the good ones.
Gosh rude or what I ve never come across sonething not finished off and I think that was a load of old guff she was giving you to excuse an unfinished item she was trying to get rid of
Good miss I would think
Coat sounds good Can’t beat a good charity shop not that I m bias of course
How many shop assistants are able to go into detail on the fabric of the clothes they sell? She could have simply said, 'I don't know anything about the fabric, I just sell the clothes.' You were lucky that she had time to talk to you at all.
Thankyou all. I suppose shopping local isn't all that it's cracked up to be which is a shame because we have no turkish barbers on the high street!
The fabric was cheap and I'm glad now I didn't buy the skirt.
I wore my £8 Windsmoor charity shop coat tonight and everyone said how great it was- so I'll be sticking to them from now on...!
A good assitant would have acknowledged your question, explained the fabric - special weave, for example or other and then discussed with you how the skirt could be shortened - pinning it up and checking it was even, how to mark the skirt for cutting and whether you needed to turn the rough edge in when you turned the skirt up.
Better still, she should have known the name and details of someone who did alterations and given it to you.
personally I would not return to a shop where the assistant talked to me like this woman talked to you.
I would not buy. The assistant was very rude.
It seems to me that the garment/skirt was of shoddy material too.
I check fabric composition of any garment I buy, and I do not buy any made from a by product of the petrochemical industry.
I also check the labels of garments in charity shops.
Thanks Oreo- but who would have the courage to cut it themselves? It was quite a full skirt and and not to the floor.
It hasn't put me off going back in the shop, other staff in there can be very nice but if I see her again I won't go in- is that petty or not?
She may have had a bad day, but yes she was rude.You can always return another day to buy it.
Bought it and hemmed it myself.
I haven’t seen anything like this, but being maxi it seems a good idea to be able to cut to desired length.
Hope this is in the right place to post.
I like when I can to patronise my local shops and we are lucky I suppose that we have an independent fashion clothes shop in the high street.
I go in now and again for a look but they very rarely have anything that's right for me.
Today, though, they had exactly what I was looking for- a maxi length tartan skirt.
There was no size label but the woman in the shop explained it was one size as it had an elasticed waist. Fair enough.
I tried it on and it looked pretty good. I thought it was lined, but I realised the lining was just the back of the fabric, and it had no hem- it was just cut at the bottom. I had never seen fabric like it, checked it was washable (polyester) and decided at just over £30 that I would buy it.
I asked her about the fabric and the lack of a hem- but she just said lots of clothes are made like this now so people can cut them off if the length is too long (I'm slightly above average height) and that lots of clothes are made like this now.
I asked if it might fray after washing though, and she said rather snappily that no one had ever brought one back, and people like the fabric because it means they can cut it to size.
I wondered how it could be cut so that the hem would be straight and just asked her how it was done. I was just being curious.
She said with scissors- did I not know how to cut things? Although I was planning to buy the skirt I was put off doing so by her being very rude. Another customer then came in as I was trying to put the skirt back on the hanger, still unsure whether to buy it or not.
Another customer came in and she left me at the counter- so I just decided to leave the skirt there and left the shop.
Has any one else come across this 'cut it yourself' fabric before?
Do you think I should have bought it, seeing as it looked quite nice?
Do you think I was right to leave when she had been so rude?
What would you have done?
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