Let me preface this post by saying that I have bought many satisfactory items from Digital Knickers in the past; they make excellent lingerie items and both Salome and I have shopped there before with much happiness.
This was not one of those trips.
My RL dry cleaner pretty much owns my ass all summer long, so it was with great glee that I picked up a sweet denim skirt and a fabulously detailed rich brown linen top that will gloriously never wrinkle. I was so excited that I tried them on right there in the store - and that was pretty much the moment my glee ended.
I unpacked the skirt first - shorts were fine, but when I put the skirt on, it attached to my head like a newbie box. The attachment point had not been set to the pelvis or anywhere else, which I can understand as an oversight that must sometimes just happen. So I pulled out a posing stand and attempted to move it south, and after a good 20 minutes of fiddling I can tell you that there is no chance in hell I’m ever going to get this prim skirt to fit properly. I can’t even figure out which side is the front and which side is the back.
Which is too bad because it is a seriously cuteskirt and one of the few I would ever wear. But every now and then we all make a bum purchase, and if the shirt had been as fabulous as it looked, I wouldn’t have minded about the skirt. But it isn’t:
The first and most immediate flaw is that the shirt edges look like they’ve been cut with pinking sheers; these are some very raggy lines. Second, there are transparency artifacts hanging around in the armpit area; I double checked and that is not my hair - it’s the shirt. And finally and most importantly, the halter neck strap doesn’t even come close to matching it’s partners in the front.
Given the skill with which Digital Knickers turns out underwear, I have to assume these were early attempts at clothing, made with the default Linden templates instead of the designer’s own or any of the others available to download from the forums. And that’s fine; every designer has slews of these in their inventory, I’m sure. What isn’t fine is selling them, and selling them at finished product prices.
I know that both Salome and I try very hard to be fair in this blog; despite our reputations as fashion dragons, we can count the number of bad reviews we’ve issued on one hand - maybe one hand each, but still, very few. But honestly, this is not acceptable. If you screw up boxing up a prim skirt, that can be written off as a mistake, but selling a shirt that is as poorly turned out as this is a choice - and its one that does justice to neither the designer’s skills nor the customer’s money.
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