I recognized the photo as a Teuta Matoshi right away, her dresses are so beautiful and I "window shop" her site all the time! Fun fact, her sister Lirika designed the Strawberry Dress that went viral in 2020; a very talented pair 😊 Such a shame that scummy people steal their gorgeous photos to sell pieces of trash like that.
@@Teajay21Is it anything like the stunning blue sweater that has the cherries hanging from it? I love all of the unoxings that TH-cam content creator Mia Maples does on her channel. In fact, Mia has spent so much money on dresses and other things, (both for try-on videos and for subscriber giveaways), that Teuta designed her wedding gown AND then gifted it to Mia. And the dress was perfect, it was so very Mia!
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T ORDER FROM THE ORIGINAL DESIGNERS!! The original dress was designed by Teuta Matoshi, and is made with fair labor practices providing kosovian women with stable income and benefits. The designer started out as a Kosovian refugee and works very hard to ensure all of her work is of the highest quality. She is also the sister of the infamous Lirika Matoshi Strawberry dress that went viral on tiktok
But what if I'm poor damn it?! Teuta is expensive and only for rich white girls! how do I get the exact same dress for like 10 cents with free shipping?!
@@thehungrygoldfish it's unrealistic to desire the exact same dress for that price point. Just find a pretty dress that's more affordable. At least you will actually get what they tell you you will.
@@jesusisgod4992 Sometimes people buy those items from charities and make whole new items from them. If this dress is donated, hopefully that will be the case.
The padding part of the dress was so ridiculous that it was comical. The dress she received wasn't even the same color or style of dress. But I'm glad that you gave information on how to find the original dress and it's price.
And even though $ 590 is a lot of money, looking at the intricacy of the design and the materials of the original I was actually positively surprised. Given what went into it, I'd easily expected a four digit sum.
amazon should have to take some accountability for all these companies that use their platform for false advertisement. They're just letting it happen with no consequence.
I disagree. The rule of thumb has ALWAYS been "Caveat emptor" -- Let the buyer beware. It doesn't take a whole lot of research, either. If you EVER say, "That looks great and the price is phenomenal!" -- then you just found a ripoff, not a bargain.
That's how dropshipping works. Amazon uses loopholes for this practice, and it works well. Funny enough, you get the same shite on Wish, Temu and Shein for less than half the price. It's mostly sellers, sometimes from the same country, sometimes chinese sellers, who buy in bulk from these stores or in MASSIVE amounts from Alibaba (another trash seller from China, but calls themselves a wholeseller - btw the founder was once the richest man in China, then one day it was suddenly announced that he's gonna retire and sold the store to the chinese government and then he disappeared. From international social media, from national social media, from life, as if he nerver existed) and then sell it one by one through Amazon as sellers.
There has to some accountability from clearing houses like Amazon and Aliexpress. “Buyer Be Wary” mentality is not enough. Thank you for bringing awareness during prom dress season.
@@pricklypear7516 Although they need to be revisited, there are consumer protections and laws in place for a reason. Plus it's not always about the buyer - clearly this harms the original designer. By your logic literally everything for purchase can stay online being deceptive.
I AGREE. FALSE ADVERTISING is a CRIME in the USA, and the buyer can expect compensation when a company does this. But, other countries.....especially the "main one" in the far east, that continually does this, needs to be held accountable for the TRILLIONS of dollars it's been making off of fakes, knock offs and false advertising. Their copying, trade mark infringement, and downright stealing of goods and money need to be stopped. This country MUST be held accountable for putting thousands of OTHER BUSINESSES......OUT of business because of their cheating practices.
I knew it was a Teuta Matoshi dress when she first put the picture up and I knew for sure that the amazon one would be painful to see XD Mia Maples has some videos about Teuta's dresses and her wedding gown was made by her too. She is a great designer! Great video!
This is FRAUD. I don’t understand how these companies aren’t being held accountable. I can understand if it looks the same but much cheaper materials but come on!
Ignoring that fact that cheaper materials will often automatically change the look, especially if you use less of them (e.g. tulle) to save on cost, you have to consider the actual work going into these dresses. A dress like this involves boning, padding, pleating and lining. They won't look remotely similar without it, but each of these steps adds additional labour and therefore cost. Even using the cheapest fabric you can find, a dress with this pattern/structure can't be produced for the prices you find on these scam sites. I agree that this is fraud, especially since they use stolen designs, but thinking you will get a beaded, boned and pleated dress for under $100 is delusional.
The issue is that these aren't "companies" it's individuals sellers with warehouses of bootleg fashion items creating profiles on amazon/tiktok shop etc. And then once they get enough sales they delete the profile/tiktok and become untraceable
In the 80s and 90s you used to be able to get some really nice quality clothing for regular prices. Not designer, but still quality clothes with quality fabric for the most part.
I shop a lot at thrift stores, and have found some incredible bargains on designer clothes.I have a Sean John coat that was probably $200 new, and a jacket (by a designer who's name escapes me, but he designs strictly for plus sized women), which was probably also $200 (at least) new. I got them both for $3 each.
Those videos of "I bought something online were the price is ridiculously low and surprise, it's bad" are sorta duh moments but I really like your giggling and reactions to the badly sewn clothes. So thank you for putting yourself through emotional pain (the chest circles XD ) to make our day brighter
I once ordered three things online at the same time three different websites. The dresses were more than $100 each. Because I was the mother of the bride, the dresses were conservative, midi length. Dress 1 was the right colour but hung like a sack, and those boobie thingies were lopsided as were the darts pointing in different directions. Dress 2 wasn’t too bad, the fit was good. I ordered burgundy, it came in a shocking red. Dress 3 didn’t arrive at all, and we left the country to my daughter’s home country without that dress. I took those dress overseas with me and the children played dress up. It was too inconvenient, bothersome and expensive for me to return the dresses which I think is what they rely on. I was fortunate to find a dress in store before I left for the wedding. I have never bought online clothes again. We have just returned from my home country, south Africa. I found a shop with the most amazing and well made dresses. I bought a beautiful dress because I think my youngest son is going to pop the question this year. Maybe. And I wanted to have a heads up because at my age it’s not easy to find a dress 😂
Check out one of Bernadette Banner's older videos where she roasts a knock off of a dress she created. The fabric for the original costs far more than they were charging for what a turned out to be a very poorly constructed dress from third rate materials. The pirate site used a picture of her dress to sell that piece of garbage.
I mean, we don't know what the price point of that Amazon listing is. If it was listed for like $40 that's clearly a nonsense listing & she'd never get anything close to the dress being allegedly sold for that price on Amazon. But if it was listed for upwards of $100 that might seem more reasonable. Obviously the dress in the picture is quite structured, with a boned bodice & worn with multiple petticoats to give the poofy look (at least, that's how it looks to my unprofessional, untrained eyes anyway). To expect a dress of that style & quality for less than $200 seems unrealistic & unreasonable unless you went second hand. So I get she's upset she's been lied to by Amazon dropshipping, & got scammed in the process, but idk how much she paid & how unrealistic she was being. If it was super cheap, at least she got the reality check on something she can clearly refund as not being the listed item
Damn that was like when Chelsea from Love is Blind compared herself to Megan Fox lmao. The dress she got has potential with some tailoring but its absolutely NOT the dress she ordered 😬
Ah count me among the people who instantly recognized this as a Matoshi dress. I'm obsessed and fully hope to save enough to buy one for myself eventually. I even think her dresses are extremely reasonably priced for what they are, especially her wedding dresses! Gorgeous stuff.
Does she have an Instagram because, I've seen someone there making dresses in the same style (all gorgeous ) and i couldn't find her page again. It's been driving me crazy trying to find her.
Thank you so much for encouraging people to do image searches and explaining how to do it. I am sure you are reducing the amount of outright thievery these "producers" in Asia are getting away with. If enough of that happens, then they won't get away with enough to keep it profitable.
Time and time again, we see people buying cheap clothes online, thinking they it's a steal. People just so used to fast fashion, that we expect designer quality but forget that they are expensive for a reason. If your budget does not allow for something, best to look for alternate options within your budget. One shouldn't spend beyond one's means or buy poor quality knock-offs thinking you'll get the same quality, that will ultimately end up in landfill.
I hate looking for clothes in stores so when I was shopping for a mother-of-the-groom dress, I ended up ordering 6 different dresses online. Ended up choosing the first one delivered and returned the other 5. Still needed to have a couple of small things altered as well as buying a special bra to wear with the dress. For the most part all 6 dresses looked pretty similar to what I ordered, at least that was my experience. But I wasn't trying to get cheapo knock offs either.
It's so sad because 10 years ago, I used to get amazing dresses from eBay China. They looked better than the pictures and were spot on in sizing. The last time I did this about 2 years back, the quality was so bad I recycled the dress
I think the only time a dress should cost less is if it's sold at a thrift shop (or similar) or at an actual dress shop store (like David's Bridal) for a discount. All other websites; *avoid at all cost!!!!!*
Unfortunately, paying more at retail is not necessarily going to guarantee quality. If you want to save money, buy used dresses in person, where you can see exactly what you're getting and judge the quality and fit.
@@serendipityshopnyc I agree, Ms Monde is emphasising that you normally have to pay a fair price and choose the right size to get a decent garment (common sense, one might be tempted to say). She doesn't say it clearly, but one can deduce from her videos that she implies that some people are just too lazy. The combination cheap+good+sitting on the sofa isn't going to work. NEVER. If you want the "sitting on the sofa" part you' ll have to pay more. Else, you really have to hit the ground, get to different stores, compare, try the garments on, etc.
And honesty, it's not like you can't get beautiful, good dresses for cheaper prices: they are usually less elaborate, or a very lucky thrift find. If you want to spend less money on a dress, and have a dress shop nearby, it's definitely worth checking out there. (Or perhaps even rent, yk)
I think it's sad that someone can steal a designer photo and get away with this. Because we're so technologically advanced I believe we should be able to live in an age where the photo pictured is what we get when we place an order. It's mad that's not the case!
I knew from the style that has to be Teuta Matoshi's Also how come you haven't heard of her. She went viral during pandemic for her strawberry dress. It was everywhere! People buying it, making it. Internet was fully saturated with it
Ok, I don't get it. Why are people buying clothes over the internet? Isn't this 100% definitely what's going to happen? Even with higher quality items and reliable retailers, how do you know you like a clothing item you've never even tried on? Seriously, I know I'm an older lady, blah, blah, blah. But why are people doing this?
Because you can buy great quality clothing that does look good or fit? A lot of places have easy return or size exchange policies. Hell there's whole "try before you buy" clothing subscriptions.
@@turdleyurtlebut you have to know where you are buying from. Big name retailer with brick & mortar locations or some site you never heard of before offering a designer dress for a tenth the designer’s price?
I think I am the only woman on earth who got surprised for the better upon unpacking a cheap dress i had bought online. I didn't expect real sequins and multilayered skirt for 30. The mesh, the fit, the design were great, the dress looked and felt exactly like in the pics, if not better. How was that possible? It was an Elsa carnival costume for my 4 yo. And this is what all these cheap dresses look like, carnival costumes. If you want to look stunning on a budget for prom or some other major occasion, thrift store is the place to go. Dresses for special occasions will be like new, and you can feel and try it in advance.
As this woman looks way too amused, I am guessing that this video is from the recent trend of social media influencers who knowingly buy ridiculously inexpensive "dups" that use the original images of high-priced clothing. I do enjoy these videos as many are quite funny. However, what is not funny is the buyers who are not aware of this situation, looking forward to a big event and end up losing their money. Hopefully channels like Monde's Threads are making more people aware of this scam...so Thank You.
I agree about looking for customer pictures of an item before buying. The ads out there are so fake. It took getting burned a few times for me to become ultra cautious about buying things online.
I’ve had very good luck buying clothes on Amazon and I wear a plus size. It’s extra challenging finding good plus size items, usually. But, I just look very closely at what I’m getting, read the measurements - because 1x with one company is different with another company - and read the reviews. If there’s an issue with the dress, or whatever I’m thinking of buying, you’ll usually see more than one person mention it. I also like to look at the pictures other women post of themselves in the outfit. Of course, we’re all different but it does give you some sense of what you might look like in it. If I were going to an important event, I probably wouldn’t buy from Amazon unless it was a brand I was already familiar with.
At least I know how it felt. Because a year ago, I ordered a cheap knock-off modern Kebaya with span skirt and 10 cm wide shawl (from the same province as mine) but the package was too small, even the same size like for a plain tunic without the embroidery tulle. The size was LOL😂 it's chest circumference should be 90 cm with a tolerance of 2 cm, but it was 96 cm when I measured it (so it was too loose on me). If only I can draw armpit line properly (for making the pattern, since I've took some sewing courses) before that time, it won't happen. Yep, the price was 10% of the real nice one.
I ordered my ball gown wedding dress from JJHouse, I paid $139 plus tax. I'm not going to lie, I was nervous, but I got just what I ordered. Only thing, it was 4 inches to long so I had to get it cut. Other than that, it's beautiful and just what I ordered. I plan on wearing it again when we renew our vows. But I plan on getting the top of the dress changed up a little.
Etheral is right! Go check out more of her amazing dresses on Mia Maples channel if you'd like to see some more, they are even more beautiful than this one, she fell in love with them so much she had Teuta make her wedding dress.
I feel like these people on tiktok, who have a whole chapnnel dedicated to style, KNOW that they are not ordering the real dress and are doing it for the bit. I get educating people about the issue, but be honest about what you're doing.
Okay so I know it's not exactly the same as the original dress she was looking to buy. And that weird flouncy skirt thing at the top is just odd. But she looked absolutely beautiful in it. So I guess it proves that beautiful women can wear a paper bag and look beautiful! Lol!!
I was just about to comment that the original is clearly a *TEUTA MATOSHI* but you ended up covering it in your vid. I'm emphasizing the name in hopes that people see it and be aware. She is *THE* designer who popularized this style of whimsical, tulle corset dress and there are soooo many fakers on Pinterest, Ebay, Amazon, etc. using images of her dresses to scam people. If you EVER see a dress in this style, assume it's a Teuta Matoshi until you can confirm otherwise.
Actually with the exception of the padding in the chest and the additional layer of sparkle netting, I much preferred the actual dress over the advertised one. It looked gorgeous with her skin tone.
Anyone who is surprised by this needs to get a grip on reality. You can buy a dress like the one in the photo for $35, or whatever unrealistically low price the company charged.
I remember being a young teen in the 80’s and pouring over just about every formal dress magazine that I could get my hands on, and I loved looking at the dresses. The dresses that we wore at our prom were either altered vintage dresses or prom dresses from the department store. I still love the idea of altering a vintage dress and one always must be careful when buying online. Nothing is sadder than spending money on something that arrives “useless”, when one could have just expected a “little less”, and for “that less”, in price. It’s buyer beware and the beginning of prom season is the worst time of year for young people to start looking. RIP to those young wallets. ❤️🩹
Take it to a reputable cleaner and have it professionally pressed. Did so with a satin brocade dress I had made and the results were far better than I could have accomplished at home. With these random fabric contents and fussy detail it's worth it to have a pro do it. I think the satin wedding dress mom and I made my sister also went to the cleaner to be pressed professionally.
Sometimes pressing won't help. Gotta understand those models have shapewear and tape going on under the dresses and you're probably gonna need the same. If you're gonna dress like a big girl you start at the skin and work outwards. You can rarely just pop on a dress if you want eleganza extravaganza, dahling! Glamour can be painful!
I want to add, that photos of real people in the dress mean nothing. Scammers steal them all the time, create accounts which looks like real people and write their own text on top of that
I feel badly for all of those poor young ladies expecting their dream dresses and thinking that this is what they are going to get. I wish I could create some kind of nonprofit to save these poor girls. I remember working three jobs just to pay for prom dress and limousine and when the limo came to pick me up it was not the limo I payed for but it was a funeral limousine with aisle seats and non tinted windows. It was hard to get by that after work my but off, paying 350.00 just to pick up and drop off at prom. And I had to cab it back home. I just couldn’t get past it 😢
I know that there are organisations that have pplrom dresses for those who can't afford to buy one. The problem is that they're usually very small and can't afford to advertise.
Your quiet chuckling in the background though 😅 I mean, if even a stunning looking girl like that can't make a dress work... it's really beyond redemption!
The real crime was that someone was selling this season old, used dress on Poshmark for $450, which is only $140 less than the brand new, in a nice store price.
I recognized the photo as a Teuta Matoshi right away, her dresses are so beautiful and I "window shop" her site all the time! Fun fact, her sister Lirika designed the Strawberry Dress that went viral in 2020; a very talented pair 😊 Such a shame that scummy people steal their gorgeous photos to sell pieces of trash like that.
Wow inspiring
they're also kosovo-albanian and produce in europe afaik!
I swear I immediately knew
I bought the lirika matoshi strawberry shirt as birthday present to myself
@@Teajay21Is it anything like the stunning blue sweater that has the cherries hanging from it? I love all of the unoxings that TH-cam content creator Mia Maples does on her channel. In fact, Mia has spent so much money on dresses and other things, (both for try-on videos and for subscriber giveaways), that Teuta designed her wedding gown AND then gifted it to Mia. And the dress was perfect, it was so very Mia!
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T ORDER FROM THE ORIGINAL DESIGNERS!!
The original dress was designed by Teuta Matoshi, and is made with fair labor practices providing kosovian women with stable income and benefits. The designer started out as a Kosovian refugee and works very hard to ensure all of her work is of the highest quality.
She is also the sister of the infamous Lirika Matoshi Strawberry dress that went viral on tiktok
Wow amazing
But what if I'm poor damn it?! Teuta is expensive and only for rich white girls! how do I get the exact same dress for like 10 cents with free shipping?!
No this is what happens when you buy a dress you can afford online without trying it on or seeing it. They were never going to spend $600 on a dress.
@@thehungrygoldfish it's unrealistic to desire the exact same dress for that price point. Just find a pretty dress that's more affordable. At least you will actually get what they tell you you will.
@@nickitori Oh sorry I thought it was clear that I was joking. Next time I have to remember to use more exclamation points.
I feel like they sent her a bad frozen Elsa custume. You know those bad cosplays at 10 € that can't be good
Hahaha 😅😂😂😂
The worse part is all those 'garments' are going directly to landfill.
😭😭😭😭
At least donate it to a charity.
@@susancook1448Treat others the way you would want to be treated.
@@jesusisgod4992 Sometimes people buy those items from charities and make whole new items from them. If this dress is donated, hopefully that will be the case.
@@susancook1448the charity can't sell it, so it takes up valuable stock space. It's going straight into the garbage from the charity too.
The padding part of the dress was so ridiculous that it was comical. The dress she received wasn't even the same color or style of dress. But I'm glad that you gave information on how to find the original dress and it's price.
Totally ridiculous
And even though $ 590 is a lot of money, looking at the intricacy of the design and the materials of the original I was actually positively surprised. Given what went into it, I'd easily expected a four digit sum.
amazon should have to take some accountability for all these companies that use their platform for false advertisement. They're just letting it happen with no consequence.
I disagree. The rule of thumb has ALWAYS been "Caveat emptor" -- Let the buyer beware. It doesn't take a whole lot of research, either. If you EVER say, "That looks great and the price is phenomenal!" -- then you just found a ripoff, not a bargain.
That's how dropshipping works. Amazon uses loopholes for this practice, and it works well. Funny enough, you get the same shite on Wish, Temu and Shein for less than half the price. It's mostly sellers, sometimes from the same country, sometimes chinese sellers, who buy in bulk from these stores or in MASSIVE amounts from Alibaba (another trash seller from China, but calls themselves a wholeseller - btw the founder was once the richest man in China, then one day it was suddenly announced that he's gonna retire and sold the store to the chinese government and then he disappeared. From international social media, from national social media, from life, as if he nerver existed) and then sell it one by one through Amazon as sellers.
There has to some accountability from clearing houses like Amazon and Aliexpress. “Buyer Be Wary” mentality is not enough.
Thank you for bringing awareness during prom dress season.
@@pricklypear7516 Although they need to be revisited, there are consumer protections and laws in place for a reason. Plus it's not always about the buyer - clearly this harms the original designer. By your logic literally everything for purchase can stay online being deceptive.
I AGREE. FALSE ADVERTISING is a CRIME in the USA, and the buyer can expect compensation when a company does this. But, other countries.....especially the "main one" in the far east, that continually does this, needs to be held accountable for the TRILLIONS of dollars it's been making off of fakes, knock offs and false advertising. Their copying, trade mark infringement, and downright stealing of goods and money need to be stopped. This country MUST be held accountable for putting thousands of OTHER BUSINESSES......OUT of business because of their cheating practices.
I knew it was a Teuta Matoshi dress when she first put the picture up and I knew for sure that the amazon one would be painful to see XD Mia Maples has some videos about Teuta's dresses and her wedding gown was made by her too. She is a great designer! Great video!
I LOVE Teuta Matoshi's designs and was wondering if anyone else recognized it.
I recognized it as a Teuta Matoshi dress from Mia Maples' videos, too!
Wow
I thought the same thing!
This is FRAUD. I don’t understand how these companies aren’t being held accountable. I can understand if it looks the same but much cheaper materials but come on!
Ignoring that fact that cheaper materials will often automatically change the look, especially if you use less of them (e.g. tulle) to save on cost, you have to consider the actual work going into these dresses. A dress like this involves boning, padding, pleating and lining. They won't look remotely similar without it, but each of these steps adds additional labour and therefore cost. Even using the cheapest fabric you can find, a dress with this pattern/structure can't be produced for the prices you find on these scam sites.
I agree that this is fraud, especially since they use stolen designs, but thinking you will get a beaded, boned and pleated dress for under $100 is delusional.
"Buyer beware!" I have always shopped with this concern.
The issue is that these aren't "companies" it's individuals sellers with warehouses of bootleg fashion items creating profiles on amazon/tiktok shop etc. And then once they get enough sales they delete the profile/tiktok and become untraceable
In the 80s and 90s you used to be able to get some really nice quality clothing for regular prices.
Not designer, but still quality clothes with quality fabric for the most part.
Yeah I used to get mine from the swap meet around the corner from my grandmother's house. Miss those times.
I still have coat from this time! It still fits and looks good with great vintage feel!
I shop a lot at thrift stores, and have found some incredible bargains on designer clothes.I have a Sean John coat that was probably $200 new, and a jacket (by a designer who's name escapes me, but he designs strictly for plus sized women), which was probably also $200 (at least) new. I got them both for $3 each.
Those videos of "I bought something online were the price is ridiculously low and surprise, it's bad" are sorta duh moments but I really like your giggling and reactions to the badly sewn clothes.
So thank you for putting yourself through emotional pain (the chest circles XD ) to make our day brighter
The dress she got looked like the Halloween Jasmine costumes from Walmart for kids lol
I was thinking the same thing lol😅
I once ordered three things online at the same time three different websites. The dresses were more than $100 each. Because I was the mother of the bride, the dresses were conservative, midi length. Dress 1 was the right colour but hung like a sack, and those boobie thingies were lopsided as were the darts pointing in different directions. Dress 2 wasn’t too bad, the fit was good. I ordered burgundy, it came in a shocking red. Dress 3 didn’t arrive at all, and we left the country to my daughter’s home country without that dress. I took those dress overseas with me and the children played dress up. It was too inconvenient, bothersome and expensive for me to return the dresses which I think is what they rely on. I was fortunate to find a dress in store before I left for the wedding. I have never bought online clothes again. We have just returned from my home country, south Africa. I found a shop with the most amazing and well made dresses. I bought a beautiful dress because I think my youngest son is going to pop the question this year. Maybe. And I wanted to have a heads up because at my age it’s not easy to find a dress 😂
They steal designs but can't even perfect them for a profit.
Exactly
They don't try.
Check out one of Bernadette Banner's older videos where she roasts a knock off of a dress she created. The fabric for the original costs far more than they were charging for what a turned out to be a very poorly constructed dress from third rate materials. The pirate site used a picture of her dress to sell that piece of garbage.
@@RudesMom see! I knew they did this with wigs and homemade jewelry. They are ruthless while using the designers photos.. smmfh
No, not even that. They’re just stealing photos of other products.
I mean, we don't know what the price point of that Amazon listing is. If it was listed for like $40 that's clearly a nonsense listing & she'd never get anything close to the dress being allegedly sold for that price on Amazon. But if it was listed for upwards of $100 that might seem more reasonable. Obviously the dress in the picture is quite structured, with a boned bodice & worn with multiple petticoats to give the poofy look (at least, that's how it looks to my unprofessional, untrained eyes anyway). To expect a dress of that style & quality for less than $200 seems unrealistic & unreasonable unless you went second hand. So I get she's upset she's been lied to by Amazon dropshipping, & got scammed in the process, but idk how much she paid & how unrealistic she was being. If it was super cheap, at least she got the reality check on something she can clearly refund as not being the listed item
Less than $100
@@MondesThreads LMAO no sympathy for her then
Damn that was like when Chelsea from Love is Blind compared herself to Megan Fox lmao. The dress she got has potential with some tailoring but its absolutely NOT the dress she ordered 😬
🤣🤣🤣🤣Bait and switch
😂😂😂
I agree. The dress was actually kind of cute that she got (the some alterations) but definitely not what she ordered.
If you cut it up you could clean Teflon pans with it.
@@lotstodoI love this idea!
I do love your common sense advice. It is refreshing!
People need more of it 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
I love that lady's sense of humour! Well you have to laugh, or else you'd 😢
Yeah 😂😂😂
Ah count me among the people who instantly recognized this as a Matoshi dress. I'm obsessed and fully hope to save enough to buy one for myself eventually. I even think her dresses are extremely reasonably priced for what they are, especially her wedding dresses! Gorgeous stuff.
I agree for the work very reasonable prices
I knew it was teuta matoshi as soon as I saw it. Her dresses fit that aesthetic exactly.
Teuta Matoshi makes the most beautiful dresses. So whimsical and ethereal
Does she have an Instagram because, I've seen someone there making dresses in the same style (all gorgeous ) and i couldn't find her page again. It's been driving me crazy trying to find her.
Thank you so much for encouraging people to do image searches and explaining how to do it. I am sure you are reducing the amount of outright thievery these "producers" in Asia are getting away with. If enough of that happens, then they won't get away with enough to keep it profitable.
People need to do more of it
Time and time again, we see people buying cheap clothes online, thinking they it's a steal. People just so used to fast fashion, that we expect designer quality but forget that they are expensive for a reason. If your budget does not allow for something, best to look for alternate options within your budget. One shouldn't spend beyond one's means or buy poor quality knock-offs thinking you'll get the same quality, that will ultimately end up in landfill.
Teuta Matoshi's dresses are iconic and recognizable. Her and her sister Lirika have beautiful creations. Hate that her designs are getting ripped off.
I hate looking for clothes in stores so when I was shopping for a mother-of-the-groom dress, I ended up ordering 6 different dresses online. Ended up choosing the first one delivered and returned the other 5. Still needed to have a couple of small things altered as well as buying a special bra to wear with the dress. For the most part all 6 dresses looked pretty similar to what I ordered, at least that was my experience. But I wasn't trying to get cheapo knock offs either.
That blue dress (the original), is gorgeous.
It's so sad because 10 years ago, I used to get amazing dresses from eBay China. They looked better than the pictures and were spot on in sizing. The last time I did this about 2 years back, the quality was so bad I recycled the dress
I think the only time a dress should cost less is if it's sold at a thrift shop (or similar) or at an actual dress shop store (like David's Bridal) for a discount. All other websites; *avoid at all cost!!!!!*
Yup exactly. There are even consignment shops that sell slightly higher price points
Unfortunately, paying more at retail is not necessarily going to guarantee quality. If you want to save money, buy used dresses in person, where you can see exactly what you're getting and judge the quality and fit.
@@serendipityshopnyc I agree, Ms Monde is emphasising that you normally have to pay a fair price and choose the right size to get a decent garment (common sense, one might be tempted to say). She doesn't say it clearly, but one can deduce from her videos that she implies that some people are just too lazy. The combination cheap+good+sitting on the sofa isn't going to work. NEVER. If you want the "sitting on the sofa" part you' ll have to pay more. Else, you really have to hit the ground, get to different stores, compare, try the garments on, etc.
I would love to be a fly on the wall of these factories, making these garments 😂😂😂😂 I can imagine the conversations and laughs 🤫
Unfortunately they're made by sweatshop labor and potentially by enslaved Uyghur people
I doubt there's that much laughter, these places tend to be sweatshops
😂😂😂😂😂
You would get depression from the conditions.
And honesty, it's not like you can't get beautiful, good dresses for cheaper prices: they are usually less elaborate, or a very lucky thrift find. If you want to spend less money on a dress, and have a dress shop nearby, it's definitely worth checking out there. (Or perhaps even rent, yk)
The real dress is actually pretty reasonable priced for a prom dress.
Especially pre-worn on Poshmark, eNay, & Mercari
I think it's sad that someone can steal a designer photo and get away with this. Because we're so technologically advanced I believe we should be able to live in an age where the photo pictured is what we get when we place an order. It's mad that's not the case!
I knew from the style that has to be Teuta Matoshi's
Also how come you haven't heard of her. She went viral during pandemic for her strawberry dress. It was everywhere! People buying it, making it. Internet was fully saturated with it
the strawberry dress was actually designed by her sister Lirika Matoshi who has her own design brand
Wow
@@willowmouse4889 Ah yes. I mixed it up. But in my defense both their styles are very similar.
It may have been “everywhere,” but not everyone sees these things. We had more pressing things to deal with.
Ok, I don't get it. Why are people buying clothes over the internet? Isn't this 100% definitely what's going to happen? Even with higher quality items and reliable retailers, how do you know you like a clothing item you've never even tried on? Seriously, I know I'm an older lady, blah, blah, blah. But why are people doing this?
Because you can buy great quality clothing that does look good or fit? A lot of places have easy return or size exchange policies. Hell there's whole "try before you buy" clothing subscriptions.
@@turdleyurtlebut you have to know where you are buying from. Big name retailer with brick & mortar locations or some site you never heard of before offering a designer dress for a tenth the designer’s price?
Biggest reason why I would rather go to the actual store than buy stuff like this online.
Thank you so much for teaching us this. This helps a lot ❤️
I think I am the only woman on earth who got surprised for the better upon unpacking a cheap dress i had bought online.
I didn't expect real sequins and multilayered skirt for 30. The mesh, the fit, the design were great, the dress looked and felt exactly like in the pics, if not better.
How was that possible? It was an Elsa carnival costume for my 4 yo. And this is what all these cheap dresses look like, carnival costumes. If you want to look stunning on a budget for prom or some other major occasion, thrift store is the place to go. Dresses for special occasions will be like new, and you can feel and try it in advance.
Great advice and, OMG, your spectacles are so cool 😎!
Looks like a Tinkerbell costume from Party City.
As this woman looks way too amused, I am guessing that this video is from the recent trend of social media influencers who knowingly buy ridiculously inexpensive "dups" that use the original images of high-priced clothing. I do enjoy these videos as many are quite funny. However, what is not funny is the buyers who are not aware of this situation, looking forward to a big event and end up losing their money. Hopefully channels like Monde's Threads are making more people aware of this scam...so Thank You.
I am loving your channel
Dress aside, when I was prom age I still looked like an awkward teen. I WISH I looked like a beautiful tan blonde influencer in her mid 20s.
You are so talented! 💖
Thank you for introducing me to this designer!
At what age range is a person's prom?
I thought the oldest would be 18. But maybe she's a chaperone? Or a teacher? No way thi lady is in high school. She's gotta be 27 or 28.
I agree about looking for customer pictures of an item before buying. The ads out there are so fake. It took getting burned a few times for me to become ultra cautious about buying things online.
And this is why I usually don't buy clothes online. I like knowing what I'm getting, thank you very much.
I love your glasses!!!
I’ve had very good luck buying clothes on Amazon and I wear a plus size. It’s extra challenging finding good plus size items, usually. But, I just look very closely at what I’m getting, read the measurements - because 1x with one company is different with another company - and read the reviews. If there’s an issue with the dress, or whatever I’m thinking of buying, you’ll usually see more than one person mention it. I also like to look at the pictures other women post of themselves in the outfit. Of course, we’re all different but it does give you some sense of what you might look like in it.
If I were going to an important event, I probably wouldn’t buy from Amazon unless it was a brand I was already familiar with.
At least I know how it felt. Because a year ago, I ordered a cheap knock-off modern Kebaya with span skirt and 10 cm wide shawl (from the same province as mine) but the package was too small, even the same size like for a plain tunic without the embroidery tulle. The size was LOL😂 it's chest circumference should be 90 cm with a tolerance of 2 cm, but it was 96 cm when I measured it (so it was too loose on me).
If only I can draw armpit line properly (for making the pattern, since I've took some sewing courses) before that time, it won't happen.
Yep, the price was 10% of the real nice one.
I knew it was Teuta Matoshi as soon as I saw it. I love her pieces. Umm, youruber Maples has bought a lot of her pieces and they are stunning.
So MsMonde, I bring that to you, ‘Can you help me?’ 😂😂
Teuta Matoshi makes a lot of popular dresses and as soon as I saw their name pop up, I just knew...
I ordered my ball gown wedding dress from JJHouse, I paid $139 plus tax. I'm not going to lie, I was nervous, but I got just what I ordered. Only thing, it was 4 inches to long so I had to get it cut. Other than that, it's beautiful and just what I ordered. I plan on wearing it again when we renew our vows. But I plan on getting the top of the dress changed up a little.
I ❤ your glasses btw!
1st Comment! That actual dress is so ethereal!
🎉🎉🎉🎉
@@MondesThreads Thank You 🥰
Etheral is right! Go check out more of her amazing dresses on Mia Maples channel if you'd like to see some more, they are even more beautiful than this one, she fell in love with them so much she had Teuta make her wedding dress.
@@trippinggauntlet4520 Aww! For sure! Thanks!
Wow, a wizard and a sleuth! You are amazing ❤
I am so glad I went to a store to get my daughter's prom dress.
By the First PIC I already knew it was a Teuta Matoshi dress.
This is why I rent dresses for events if I'm too broke to buy one or if I simply don't feel I will need it afterwards.
I feel like these people on tiktok, who have a whole chapnnel dedicated to style, KNOW that they are not ordering the real dress and are doing it for the bit. I get educating people about the issue, but be honest about what you're doing.
Okay so I know it's not exactly the same as the original dress she was looking to buy. And that weird flouncy skirt thing at the top is just odd. But she looked absolutely beautiful in it. So I guess it proves that beautiful women can wear a paper bag and look beautiful! Lol!!
I was just about to comment that the original is clearly a *TEUTA MATOSHI* but you ended up covering it in your vid. I'm emphasizing the name in hopes that people see it and be aware. She is *THE* designer who popularized this style of whimsical, tulle corset dress and there are soooo many fakers on Pinterest, Ebay, Amazon, etc. using images of her dresses to scam people.
If you EVER see a dress in this style, assume it's a Teuta Matoshi until you can confirm otherwise.
Actually with the exception of the padding in the chest and the additional layer of sparkle netting, I much preferred the actual dress over the advertised one. It looked gorgeous with her skin tone.
You are so good at this. Sherlock to seamstress. 😊 I feel so bad for people who honestly fall for this.
Went from beautiful Belle to discount Elsa real quick 😂
Love when everyone can recognize that this is a Teuta Matoshi dress.
Great educational video. I hope clients heed your advice
Apart from the bad design. The colour actually looks really nice on her 😅
Anyone who is surprised by this needs to get a grip on reality. You can buy a dress like the one in the photo for $35, or whatever unrealistically low price the company charged.
What a deal you got cuz nobody else will be there in your gown 😢 so sorry but glad you knew to call❤
I remember being a young teen in the 80’s and pouring over just about every formal dress magazine that I could get my hands on, and I loved looking at the dresses. The dresses that we wore at our prom were either altered vintage dresses or prom dresses from the department store. I still love the idea of altering a vintage dress and one always must be careful when buying online. Nothing is sadder than spending money on something that arrives “useless”, when one could have just expected a “little less”, and for “that less”, in price. It’s buyer beware and the beginning of prom season is the worst time of year for young people to start looking. RIP to those young wallets. ❤️🩹
Knock off designer looks at classic 1950's gown and thinks, "that's the same as a child's Elsa costume." 😮
Girl got “Dress Fished”
Take it to a reputable cleaner and have it professionally pressed. Did so with a satin brocade dress I had made and the results were far better than I could have accomplished at home. With these random fabric contents and fussy detail it's worth it to have a pro do it. I think the satin wedding dress mom and I made my sister also went to the cleaner to be pressed professionally.
Sometimes pressing won't help. Gotta understand those models have shapewear and tape going on under the dresses and you're probably gonna need the same. If you're gonna dress like a big girl you start at the skin and work outwards. You can rarely just pop on a dress if you want eleganza extravaganza, dahling! Glamour can be painful!
I have a Google phone that lets you use lens. It's really cool and helpful
Absolutely, if price is too good to be true, it probably is
I want to add, that photos of real people in the dress mean nothing. Scammers steal them all the time, create accounts which looks like real people and write their own text on top of that
This is so Cosby show Gordan Gartrelle episode!😂
Just loved those shoulder pads used as bra inserts. Ingenious, right.
Always do a reverse image search before buying. If the price seems too good to be true, it IS too good to be true.
Very cool eyeglasses.
That tinder date 😂
I feel badly for all of those poor young ladies expecting their dream dresses and thinking that this is what they are going to get. I wish I could create some kind of nonprofit to save these poor girls. I remember working three jobs just to pay for prom dress and limousine and when the limo came to pick me up it was not the limo I payed for but it was a funeral limousine with aisle seats and non tinted windows. It was hard to get by that after work my but off, paying 350.00 just to pick up and drop off at prom. And I had to cab it back home. I just couldn’t get past it 😢
I know that there are organisations that have pplrom dresses for those who can't afford to buy one. The problem is that they're usually very small and can't afford to advertise.
Your quiet chuckling in the background though 😅
I mean, if even a stunning looking girl like that can't make a dress work... it's really beyond redemption!
It looks like a costume Frozen dress in adult size lol
It works as a sundress and fits but she's going to have to go back shopping
I think she really does suit that colour even if the dress isn't..... Right!
NGL, when I first saw the package size I thought, oh it’ll be the same dress but in Barbie doll size.
This is how I shop on temu I'm very thorough before purchasing
The real crime was that someone was selling this season old, used dress on Poshmark for $450, which is only $140 less than the brand new, in a nice store price.
That video was too funny! They might as well left the half skirt off the dress.
How much did it cost?
When ur pretty anything looks good on you❤
You are amazing 👏
I actually love the color of the received dress. Lol
These clothes are awesome kids to play dress up in.
De verdade, eu teria chorado muito e ficaria febril
It looks like a cheap Elsa dress for play time with kids....lol you did a great job
I knew that was a teuta matoshi.
She got the Elsa princess version of the dress 😂