I Tried Dressin So You Don't Have To (Honest Review After $100 Order)
is a new online fashion store that popped up and since my favorite thing to do is try out all the viral stores to give you honest reviews, I placed a $100 order and tested it out.
And I hated it. For them, most part. If you’re thinking of ordering from them, read my honest Dressin review first since I had a weird experience. Let’s get into it.
This is part of my series where I review viral brands you see online, , test them out and give you an honest review on the shopping experience and quality of clothing.
launched in November 2024 with the goal of being a competitor to , which has seamlessly taken over the world of online fashion, especially with customers in the United States.
Tradeinn owns the company, and according to, the “platform aims to revolutionize affordable fashion by offering high-quality, stylish clothing at wholesale prices. ”
That may be the goal, but in reality, I found the customer experience to be clunky, prices comparable to Amazon, and inventory extremely low and mostly trash (think neon leopard tights or plastic shirts with Hawaiian prints on them). Plus, they push their referral program and accounts on users before they can even have a moment to click around which feels spammy.
The website looks and feels like something you don’t really want to shop from either (scam alarm bells galore). But, found some pieces to try for my first time ordering from Dessin (and this first order will be my last).
My delivery time was a few weeks, since everything came from China, so this was by no means a quick delivery process. I picked my package up from the Post Office weeks later than it was supposed to show up, and immediately tried it on, only to be extremely disappointed.
I’m talking clothing that didn’t look anything like the photos online, and felt like it was made out of pure plastic, or were broken on arrival. Since Dressin is new and a little sketchy, and at the end of the day I decided to just not return the bad clothing and just toss it.
There were some items that did fit, though. I ordered a that fit perfectly and had quality similar to what you would find at Target but for half the price. I grabbed a pair of that are cute and fit, but the material feels a little plastic and isn’t something I like sleeping in, though are fine for a few hours of lounging.
Another dress I was excited about was this that was perfect for wearing out on New Years Eve. I put it on and a block away from our apartment, I realized it had ridden all the way up to my waist. Thank goodness I was wearing tights and a coat since otherwise I would have flashed everyone on the streets of San Francisco.
This was a clear indication to me that and cheaply made in a bad way, since they couldn’t even produce a dress that stayed on a woman’s body as she walked.
When testing out new clothing brands, I like to order a variety of items to test quality and fit, especially as a size 14 gal. Often times, fast fashion companies like Dressin can’t design clothes that fit anyone above a size 8.
I ordered:
Of all the items, only the black midi dress actually fit and was made well. The sequin dress was a catfish, and everything else either straight up did not fit me, even though I ordered a size XL, or was so poorly made I couldn’t wear it.
I even tried a men’s shirt and that felt like plastic to my husband and he didn’t want to wear it.
One thing I always look at is a as it’s important to make sure they are adhering to some kind of uniform sizing. But I found Dressin to have widely different size charts within their own company. I ordered everything as size XL and some items, like the miniskirt, fit like a medium while the dress fit true to size.
When a company can’t even standardize their sizing consistently, that’s a marker that they aren’t making quality clothes and never will.
I tested out chat and was immediately given a bot that told me they would get back to me in 24 hours. I get that they’re a new company but when you can’t be connected to a customer service agent right away, that raises concerns for shoppers.
set out from the start to “be different” by owning all touchpoints of the supply chain. They apparently own all their own factories in Vietnam, which allows them to offer their product direct to consumer compared to traditional stores who work with manufacturers to produce clothing for them, and then mark it up.
On the outside, this sounds like a good idea but it raises a lot of red flags. What are the ethical conditions of these factories? If they own the who supply chain, that means they can easily cover up any unethical practices such as child labor, slave labor or environmental waste.
The fact they are offering clothing so cheap means they have to be violating something. Shein, for example, is so affordable to Americans since they have confirmed to use children and salves to produce clothing for next to nothing wages (even got slapped with a RICO charge).
Just because the CEO of Dressin says they’re ethical, doesn’t mean they are and I have serious doubts they can be. They’re making claims without proof and that’s a huge red flag.
To extend on Dressin’s lack of transparency when it comes to their factories and business practices, I think they steal designs. When I did a reverse image search on a Dressin dress with a specific floral pattern, I found it offered on Temu, Shien, Walmart and Amazon.
Either Dressin is stealing this design and offering it as a knock-off, or they are actually just using the same factories as all these other companies. And we know Shein uses Uyghur forced labor and after research,
So, does Dressin actually have factories in China but they’re just claiming to produce in Vietnam for appearances? Or are they stealing designs?
Either way, it’s not ok.
Before writing my Dressin review, I tried to find other reviews and customer comments about the store — anything to help with research and found next to nothing. I don’t set out to write these deep dives as negative reviews, but
The items are poor quality, the clothing will probably not fit you or look very different from what you saw online, it will take more days to arrive than the delivery date you excepted, and overall, everything just feels meh.