Hiya hon,
Apologies in advance for the essay but the following is a full rundown of my ahem... "Fashion" history with QVC. (or as much as I remember anyway. It's possible that I have blocked out some of the horrors!) :grin:
I've ordered about 50 items of clothing from QVC and kept only a handful of them.
I've never returned any item of clothing because I didn't like it. It was always because it was made out of the most horrible unwearable bri nylon type fabric or because it was poorly constructed, or bits were hanging off it etc. Once or twice it has been sizing issues. A size large top that my eight year old couldn't get on, and two Casual and Co tops in consecutive sizes where the larger size was almost exactly same as the smaller one when laid over the top of it.
Until I came here 3 months ago I didn't know to ask for a refund on both sets of postage and I'd been paying to return items myself.
Hubby estimates that I have spent about £350 in postage alone just trying things on from QVC - and as I mentioned I have only kept a handful of them.
Kim and Co wide leg trousers are handy for for Yoga and housework. Of the four pairs I have ordered over the years two had to be sent back immediately because of split seams. I also have a couple of camisoles / sleeveless tops that I use as an extra layer in the cold weather because they have no bulk to them. (No problems with these.)
I have ordered at least a dozen tops from
Casual and Co and sent every single blummen one back. Either the fabric was really thin, or my boobs wouldn't fit in it, or the sizing was crazy, the stitching was unravelling or something else was missing or faulty or hanging off.
The one pair of trousers I ordered from
George Simonton were made from the kind of fabric that crackles when you walk and you worry that if your thighs rub together you'll burst into flame. I haven't seen fabric like it since 1974! It also showed every detail of the lace on my knickers through it. Horrid!
I have one
Centigrade coat which is full length, faux suede, fur lined gorgousness but the two others that I ordered subsequently were dreadful. They were poorly contructed from nasty fabric and have put me off the brand for good.
I ordered some
Markon boots. The first pair were fab for wearing with big thick socks in because they have quite a high toe box, but the second pair in the same design different colour were faulty and wouldn't stand up. The last they were made on was bent upwards like clown shoes or genie shoes so you couldn't put all your foot flat on the floor. (so that was it for Markon!)
Slim and Lift Ugh! Never again - and I happily wear shape wear all the time.
Carole Hochman I've had one pair of pajamas and the bottoms fit but the top was huuuuge on me. I kept them though cos they were in the £10 sale and gave the top to my friend.
YBF My all time favourite trousers of all time ever
are brown velvet / velour ones from YBF. I know that makes me sound like a Dralon sofa from the 70s but they are just so well cut for my (pear) shape that I'm even thinking of having them copied by a tailor. I also have a YBF leopard print tunic which I love, but the jacket, two other pairs of trousers and three tops that I ordered from YBF were all either a nasty fabric or has a construction fault.
Nina Leonard I ordered a knitted wrap over top but it was over stretched and shapeless when it arrived as well as being the sort of artificial fibre that sets my teeth on edge so that went straight back. I also had a tie waist top that they always show as a drop waist low slung on the hips on the model but you can only do that IRL if your hips are the same size as your waist or smaller - or you get one three sizes too big.
Modern Soul I have a brown tweed cardigan and a black and grey cardi / jacket from Modern Soul and they're both fab. Sizing is pretty generous though (but that's fine so long as you know that)
I am quite fancying a couple of tops from Kim Parrish but my previous success rate of maybe 11 successes out of 50+ orders puts me off bothering. If I don't like them both it will still cost me about £15 in postage to find that out.
These days I prefer to order from online shops and catalogues such as Next, La Redoute, Fashion World and Marks and Spencers. I can order as much as I like for about £3 postage and about half the time there's a free postage promotion on or a discount code on anyway.
