Well, I don't know if I got a flukey one, but mine came fitted VERY strange. I'm a pretty average shaped person, I'm also 5'8" and 145 lbs. I almost always wear a medium and after looking at the size chart thought medium would be perfect. It came about a month later (I didn't realize this when I initially ordered, but that is my own fault). The right side of the dress had about 2 inches more length in the top so the waistline sat extremely crooked on me, with the right side drooping down lower. Also the bust didn't fit at all which was really unusual for me. The armpits and sides gapped out a few inches on both sides. Even if I had ordered the size small, if it was for like this one, it still wouldn't have worked for me. The material of the dress is very nice and very comfortable. I thought the dress was cute and thankfully my mom is sewing savvy, so we ripped out all the seams in the top and sewed it back together to fit me, taking at least 2 inches off the top right strap, and nothing from the left side, and fixing the sides. To me it wasn't worth sending back and asking for a size smaller and risking that one fitting weird, and waiting another month, so that's why I had my mom fix it. But overall, it's a cute dress. Not sure what happened with mine though!