Am I the only one who struggles with online shopping? Like with measurements for example, I don’t know what there talking about or if the clothes will be the right size. How does everyone else get around this?

  • I'm_All_NEET:3@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    1·
    23 hours ago

    How do people get over that? How do they know it’s the right size if they haven’t seen it IRL?

    If it doesn’t fit then it’s a lot harder to get a refund and + you now have the disappointment of waiting a few weeks or days just to find out they don’t fit you.

      • I'm_All_NEET:3@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        11·
        23 hours ago

        But that’s the problem it’s hard to know what your getting. For me all those measurements mean nothing to me.

        • Fermion@feddit.nl
          2·
          11 hours ago

          I only order items that I have purchased previously and liked. Jeans are the main item I order online. I don’t need to have a wide variety of pants and I’m ok getting the same thing repeatedly. Shirts vary too much for me. Even the same brand and size label can have drastically differing fits so those are in-person only.

    • veroxii@aussie.zone
      3·
      20 hours ago

      I don’t buy clothes online but my wife does. This is how she works: She orders stuff all the time. Maybe every few days something will arrive and she’ll try it on. It’s like a constant production line so she’s never actively waiting to try things on. They “just arrive” constantly.

      And yes she returns a ton of stuff. She probably visited the post office twice a week to return the non fitting items. Or a lot of times they fit but don’t quite look the same on her than she imagined or the quality wasn’t great.

      Also some places she has ordered enough times from that fitting isn’t an issue any more. She knows their cuts and sizing very well.

      I guess it also helps to be a standard size of traditional proportions. For myself I have to compensate for a more typical programmer physique haha.