Prom day is such a magical day and you deserve to look and feel like a princess. To make sure your dress choice is spot on, here are some mistakes to avoid when shopping for prom dresses.
Not honouring the dress code
Your school probably has a dress code for prom, possibly even a theme. While a theme can be interpreted how you wish to an extent, you can’t twist a dress code to make it what you want. If you knowingly go ahead and buy a dress that shows your cleavage when this is not allowed, then you could risk missing your prom due to them denying you entry.
Getting hung up on numbers
You surely know by now that clothes come up bigger in some stores than others, so sizes should be taken with a pinch of salt. Don’t be put off buying a dress just because it says a number on the label that makes you feel uneasy. When trying on prom dresses, you need to look past the size and focus on how it makes you feel.
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Failing to budget for alterations
You can get prom dresses altered by a professional seamstress for a fee. If you feel you’ll need to make some amendments to your dress at the time of buying it, then you should seriously think about whether this dress will be affordable for you in the long run. Bearing in mind too that altered dresses may not sell as well if you were planning to put it on Vinted after the big day…
Leaving it too late to return
One of the most common prom dress fails is buying a dress and then deciding it’s not ‘the one’, but failing to check the returns policy.
Some stores may allow returns within a certain window while others may specify no returns. Don’t be left with an expensive dress that you can’t take back!
