Dressing room ettique...for ladies!

quichebradford
quichebradford Posts: 327 Member
edited October 4 in Chit-Chat
If you try on an item in the dressing room, and you mess it up, what do you do? For instance, you try on a dress (or shirt) and in the process of pulling it over your head, you get makeup all over it. The item doesn't fit right so you don't want to buy it...and now it has makeup all over it. What would you do?

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  • ChicagoSammo
    ChicagoSammo Posts: 25
    My wife would hand it to me to put back on the rack.
  • Katefab26
    Katefab26 Posts: 865
    Put it back. Makeup can be washed off. Stores don't even give discounts for stuff like that lol
  • Phoenix24601
    Phoenix24601 Posts: 620 Member
    I've done this before. If I am the one that messed it up, I would buy it just because it was my fault.
  • macpatti
    macpatti Posts: 4,280 Member
    If I got makeup on a shirt, a button fell off, or a zipper broke, I would tell the fitting room attendant when I hand her back the items. I may not necessarily say *I* messed it up, but I would bring it to her attention.
  • ket_the_jet
    ket_the_jet Posts: 1,257 Member
    I'm a guy that doesn't wear make-up. It really depends on the damage done to a garment. If a button came off, for instance, I would give it to an attendant to sew. If it required more than a simple hem, then I would probably feel obligated to buy it...

    ...but...

    ...stores build a "damaged upon delivery" cost into their budgets. Most stores are allotted a certain amount of product that they are allowed to return. So at the end of the day, I wouldn't feel particularly guilty if I caused some sort of imperfection in the material.
    -wtk
  • poisongirl6485
    poisongirl6485 Posts: 1,487 Member
    I'd put it back. You wash your clothes anyway before wearing them, makeup washes off.
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    If it's make-up, I'd just give it back to the fitting room attendant. I'm sure that happens a lot at women's clothing stores.

    If I did something that made the item unsellable, it depends on how it happened. If it was completely my fault, I'd offer to pay. I'm not a liar. But if it was the result of poor craftmanship and not me abusing the clothes, I'd tell them what happened, but I would not pay for it.
  • livnlite
    livnlite Posts: 520
    I see clothes on the rack with make up on it all the time. It happens.
  • tashjs21
    tashjs21 Posts: 4,584 Member
    Put it back on the hanger and rack.

    Discount stores don't usually have dressing room attendants. :laugh:


    <----Cheap :blushing:
  • TluvK
    TluvK Posts: 733 Member
    I would tell them, but I wouldn't pay for it. Now, if my child peed on it or something, then I would. As someone else said, stores have that waste accounted for in their budgets - it's also why there are stores like TJ Max and Nordstrom Rack - they send those items there.

    Not quite the same because of the cost differences but my son spilled a container of blueberries in the grocery store once- the manager told me to go get a new container and that the store had a "slush fund" for things like that.
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