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

[elisem]

Hmm! I may be very interested.

Gotta check a thing.

[elisem]

Alas, not the size I can wear.

[moiread]

Alas! I am hoping somebody somewhere will want it, because it's a nice thing, just not the thing I paid for. It would be a shame for it to go to waste.

[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

[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.

[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.

[aedifica]

The color you describe is very much a me color, but I think the size you describe is not. Also, I argh with you about the seller--that's very uncool.

[moiread]

I would also bet that it is a you-colour, so I am sad that it is not a you-size as well. Alas, alack! But thanks for the comment. :)

[puja]

That sounds like it would do interesting things for my BubbleButt, but otherwise should fit me (we'll be talking definitely on the clingy side). I'd definitely be interested in seeing pics. It might work as Burnt Orange/Longhorn colors.