Giving the item two stars because the material was nice and thick, and the dress design was as pictured.  But if it weren't for the fact that I had no other options, I wouldn't have gone through the headache that I went through this past weekend.  I needed a white, vintage inspired dress for Saturday evening.  Ordered this dress with prime shipping for Friday delivery.  And to be extra safe (due to the fact I've had lost packages, etc), I ordered TWO of these dresses.  One in a small, one in a medium.  I usually fit in a small just fine in these dresses, but decided to order the medium as a back-up.

I was thrilled when both dresses arrived on Friday and none came up missing.  Get home and pull both dresses out of their packages, and am immediately disappointed.  The "white" dress is actually an "off-white" dress.  It wasn't too much of a deference, but with the stark white accessories I had purchased to go with it, you could tell.  I open the small and go to put it on.  The zipper doesn't want to go up.  Not in the "she's too big for this dress way" but in the "maybe it's suck on some fabric or a seam" kind of way.  I finally manage to get it to go up past the waist seam that seemed to be stalling it - and the zipper splits.  I couldn't get the zipper to go back down to bring the teeth back together, and had to wiggle out of it.

Calm down, take a deep breath.  This is why I bought a back-up dress, in case this happened.  I pull the zipper down all the way on the medium dress, shimmy into it and go to yank up the zipper  - and it won't budge.  Not a centimeter.  I literally have a big, horrendous looking blister on my finger four days later from pulling and tugging on this zipper so much, attempting to get it to go up.

At this point I had spent thirty minutes trying to salvage ONE of these dresses.  I had bought two and BOTH were defective.  You have got to be kidding me, right?  And I need this dress in less than twenty four hours, it's too late to order something different.  I ended up finding a tailor that was open on Saturdays and would be able to do a rush zipper replacement.  He replaced the zipper with an industrial strength bridal zipper, and even added a hook eye closure to the top.  The dress worked perfectly, and paired with vintage shape wear and a crinoline, was exactly the look I needed for my big night.

Still though, I paid $25 for a rush zipper replacement on a $30 dress.  If just one had been defective, I would have simply ignored it.  But being that both dresses had issues with the zipper?  The hardware used is just simply cheap and ineffective.  I do really like the material and the cut of the dress, but if I were to buy another, I'd make sure it's when I have the extra income to put into replacing the zipper before wearing it.