Garment Design Errors

Like any normal female, I love shopping for new clothes, but I have major complaints against most garment labels. And the cause is just one - design flaws!

When you spend a chunk of your hard-earned money on Branded clothes, what do you expect? A fabric that is easy on your skin, a design that suits your style (whatever that is - simple or trendy) and an overall product that is simple to maintain. Just dump it in your washing machine and it comes out clean and looking exactly the way it looked before it went into it.

But alas! The last point is where they fail the most. First they come out with clothes that need dry-wash only. Seriously? You think we are going to dry-wash clothes every time? Okay, we will take that trouble for party-occasion wear. And yes, even then it is a trouble. But for daily / office wear? Are you joking?

And then the garment design - I bought a full white top with black lace on it (from a popular brand - Fusion Beats) and when it was washed, the colour from the lace bled all over the top. Once it was the blue fabric buttons which bled all over a white kurti (Shoppers Stop). What were they thinking when they created such stuff? Don't they know how careful one has to be when working with whites? We have been wearing whites since the beginning of time and they sell you products where colours bleed all the time!!

And then the fabric itself. It is either synthetic and not so skin-friendly or it is natural and nearly transparent. I don't get the logic behind creating sheer and almost fully transparent fabrics - if someone wants something like that, they can always get net or lace fabrics. Why make formal wear fabrics sheer?? 

And if the fabric is not sheer, it will be coarse and dull-looking or the colours will fade away in a few washes. Synthetics are more reliable in this aspect, at least they don't bleed and fade away.

Even with online shopping options, a great list of brands to choose from - I still find it difficult to get sensible clothes at a reasonable price. All the budding fashion entrepreneurs out there - please listen to our voices!