It's not like it's the shirt's fault. Please adopt an orphan garment today!

[moiread]

This is part ad and part rant, so that it will make me feel better both ways.

Does anybody here want a shirt in this style but in mottled terracotta orange-brown? I bought it custom as a tunic-style shirt, so it's shorter than the dress in the photo -- about 27" long from the cowl. Laid flat and measured that way, it's ~18" wide across the bust

Comments

[syianna]

Firstly, I think leave the comment. Anyone with an ounce of sense will wonder why the neg comment on yours is blank. I think that its worth it for the negative comment on hers for obviously not selling a product as advertise.

And frankly, it's hand dyed? WHO CARES? I can hand dye 8 lots and get them pretty damn close together in shade, no less hue. If you were a bit more measurement inclined and less organic than myself, you could actually scientifically create the /exact/ same colour, even with natural dyes--which it doesn't look that would be anyway. If its not natural dyes, she's an idiot who doesn't know what she's doing. Or she's lying, which is my thought.
And that doesn't even touch the fact that she /got the measurements wrong/ which is just poor seamstressing (is that a word? Don't think so. Whatev) and she should be taken out back and shot.
/end rant
anyway, I love the shirt and would love to take it off your hands but I don't dare have you send it my way without trying it on first, given the nature of the beast of 'clingy' clothes, so I can't take it. Good luck!

[moiread]

EXACTLY. I am not an awesome fiber arts and dye expert like you, but even I know that "oops, it came out orange instead of purple" basically requires you to have used the wrong dye or else done something extremely special with your chemicals.

Taking three inches off makes it clingy. Taking ten inches off makes it THE WRONG SIZE.

I have had problems with Etsy clothing makers not actually knowing how to handle measurements (even when that's what the item description asks for) because their tailoring skills are more basic than they let on. That is one thing. But you know, the chick who did that not only accepted returns but offered to try again and eventually fixed them, which caused me to leave her glowing feedback about her customer service. And if it's only a little off, I can usually fix it by stealing my dad's sewing machine or taking it to soirenoir. I do not make a huge stink over items being a little off when you had only numbers, not a fitting, to work with. I am not unreasonable about the realities of buying clothing off the internet.

I don't blame you for being cautious about sizing. I appreciate validation from you anyway, what with your technical background. ♥

[moiread]

PS: Apparently Etsy's recent privacy changes make it so that sellers can't see the actual specific feedback left for customers by other sellers, only the overall number and ratio of positive versus negative. But customers can see all the feedback on sellers. So people will be able to see my comment on her account but nobody will be able to see anything on mine except that at some point some seller was deeply unhappy with me. I don't know how much one negative feedback out of ninety (so far) will affect anything, but the whole thing is just so stupid and juvenile and unnecessary and offensive that I am pissy anyway. I would almost certainly not be so angry if she hadn't basically been all, "Learn to read item descriptions, stupid gross fat girl!" BAH HUMBUG.

[moiread]

PPS: Going off past experience and some of the stuff sellers say in their shop policies, there appears to be this trend on Etsy where leaving negative feedback is deeply taboo and should never be done no matter what the circumstances, and that you should always make your feedback match what was left for you. Which, you know, completely defeats the purpose of the system in the first place. I seriously don't get it, but I've been seeing it in other places, like authors and book review sites who think that if you don't have anything nice to say, you should shut the fuck up or else get screamed at, and I don't understand it there either.

Monkeys. Sigh.

[mrissa]

This is where people who think Cory Doctorow's whuffie system from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom was a utopian thing are going completely off the rails. Sometimes people will be vindictive shits, and sometimes they will feel completely justified in being vindictive shits because they have completely lost perspective. "If I paid for one color, would a completely different color do IN GENERAL?" is a question most people will be able to answer if they are able to put themselves in the shoes of the customer. But if they have the breakdown of empathy, they go into, "I'm SURE it'll be FINE" mode and get mad and defensive. And this is just a thing that will happen with people. You can try to educate people and teach them right so that it will happen less. But you have to expect at least some people will be like this at least some of the time, so basing the entire society's system on nobody ever being like this is...not optimal.

Bleh ick I'm sorry.

I am thinking from your description that it's not a me-orange and probably is some other of your friends' orange? But you have it on hand and can guess better.

[moiread]

Yeah, "sometimes humans are just a fucking mess" is pretty much a given, I feel.

I don't think it's a you-orange. I could be wrong, but I am uncertain enough that it doesn't seem worth it to go mailing it back and forth.

It might be a soirenoir orange. We'll find out at some point. But if absolutely nobody wants it as-is, I may try tossing it in a tub of burgundy dye to see what comes out, since I have another thing that wants to be dyed that colour. At the very least, dye experiments are fun for their own sake, you know? I don't mind using it for play. And if it turns out well, I will ask around again, because burgundy is an easier colour for many people than orange.

Probably I am too committed to recycling clothing, but je ne regrette rien!

[mrissa]

I don't think you're too committed to recycling clothing, but I agree that waiting for the right person is a better idea than shipping internationally for the maybe-but-probably-not person.

As long as your dye experiments don't end up dyeing my grandfather's underpants pink....

[moiread]

My brother dyed all his underwear pink once! He bought these new red gym towels, you see. To his credit, though, he didn't do it twice.

(I have so many stories that start with "This one time, my brother..." that it's a wonder he hasn't started throwing things at my head whenever I start talking, just on principle.)

I also accidentally dyed myself pink once, from head to toe. Now that was special.

[mrissa]

Ours was in Sweden, and my mom had thought that she'd washed her newly dyed raspberry-colored shorts often enough, and she hadn't.

My father was a good sport about it, but my grandfather, while not yelling or anything like that, just kept getting this look on his face.

Pink skivvies, you see, do not befit the dignity of a United States Marine. Even if yelling about it also does not.

[theweaselking]

The first time Frances dyed her hair, there was some spillage and dripping, combined with a mistaken belief that it would just wash off the ceramics so it was okay to leave it until the dying was done to clean up.

Our bathtub looked like the My Little Pony Slaughterhouse Playset for *months*.