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Bought two jackets from Ponderstar
Bought two jackets from Ponderstar, both brands are Chicsit. Both items look nothing like the advertised photos in my opinion. I note that the descriptions are very light on detail, this may be deliberate. But the descriptions say the products are sold as per the photo, yet not true for me in my opinion.
The gold tinny feeling sleeve buttons on one jacket are not stitched in line, one button hangs beneath the sleeve whereas the other sleeve has two buttons on one side and the other on the opposite side of a strip of fabric, like a lapel.
Elastic loops are meant to act as button holes but these are no bigger than a few grains of rice which can't stretch over the large gold buttons, these look nothing like the photo which show large elastic loops.
A panel on one sleeve which is meant to be stitched straight up in line with the seam line is fixed on a cross angle.
The size is meant to be UK 20/22 but it's closer to size 10 in my opinion.
The other jacket whilst described as "printed" fabric, looks luxurious in the photo and like it is embroidered gold thread. The printed pattern I received looks nothing like the photo, rather like a cheap dressing gown in my opinion.
I consider it is poorly manufactured, it has threads hanging out across the jacket.
Again the size is not a UK 20/22 but closer to a size 10 in my view.
Both jackets fit my mother who weighs 44kg and wears size 8.
In the photo the block colour appears to be "ink navy" but it is black, however as it is a synthetic print there are sections where the black is faded in appearence.
At the bottom of one side of the garment it is puckering, in my opinion it has not been manufactured properly.
Both jackets in my view should have been picked up under qualify assurance and not sold.
I have reported this to PayPal and am currently trying to contact Ponderstar. I've randomly checked other items sold by Ponderstar and all selected are by Brand Chicsit, so not sure if Ponderstar is a actually Chicsit by another name.
23 September 2019
Unprompted review