Woman shocked to discover dress she ordered online only fits her leg

From last-minute holiday hauls to prepping for that all-important job interview, online shopping is undoubtedly one of the greatest inventions of the 21st century.

But as one unlucky customer recently discovered, it doesn’t always go according to plan.

Julia Magowan ordered the £18 Black Mesh Ruched Bodycon Dress from Pretty Little Thing in her usual size 8. But when the item arrived it, didn’t quite fit.

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In fact, the 21-year-old was shocked to discover that the dress didn’t even pull up to her thighs, as she only managed to squeeze one leg in.

She took to Twitter to call out the fashion giant, writing: “PLT how do you expect me to fit my body into this supposed size 8 dress? Can just about fit my left leg in it, what a joke”

“Update: fits nicely around my leg,” she joked, alongside an image of the number pulled over her left leg.

According to the website, the dress is a “weekend-worthy look” and is the perfect ensemble when styled with barely-there heels.

But it’s not the first time high street sizes have been called into question by disappointed shoppers.

Back in June 2018, H&M finally pledged to make its UK sizes bigger after years of complaints.

Customer Rebecca Parker famously penned a candid letter to the company via Facebook after struggling to fit into a pair of size 14 jeans – despite being a size 12/14.

She wrote that although at age 25 she finally felt comfortable with her body, she worries about the damaging impact the brand’s sizing could have on teenagers.

“My thirteen-year-old self wasn’t comfortable with being curvy. I felt fat, podgy and sad when I had to reach for a garment that was labelled with a number in the high teens,” she wrote. “Why is it OK for a brand to label an item of clothing as a size which it clearly isn’t?”

After the backlash, it was revealed that the reason why so many of us end up buying larger-than-usual sizes at the high street chain is due to the way in which UK sizing matches up to its European equivalent.

In the UK, a size 10 correlates to a European size 38 but in H&M, size conversion means that clothes in this size were wrongly labelled as an EU 36 (which is a UK size 8).

Now, the Swedish chain is slowly rolling out more accurate sizes.

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