Postby PilatesQueen » Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:40 pm
I thought I should warn others against buying clothes in Pretty Pregnant, following an experience I have just had there.
At 5 months pregnant I wanted to buy something fun and Christmasy which I could dress up or down. On Thursday last week I therefore bought a red Aubrey jumper dress from Pretty Pregnant on the Northcote Rd. It was £59.50 reduced from £89, so still fairly expensive. On returning home I tried it on with the clothes I planned to wear with it and my husband, who normally likes all my clothes, deemed it to be "mumsy", "unflattering", "the kind of thing I could wear around the house" and "quite peasant-like".
Being a size 8 and someone who is interested in fashion, these are not good descriptions for a newly purchased item! I also tended to agree with him and so took said item back to get a refund. OR TRIED TO...
Despite having my receipt, and the card I bought the item on (as well as having bought it just three days before), I was told point-blank that I couldn't return it or even get a credit note, end of, because it was a sales item. I said this was utterly ridiculous especially since I had not been warned of this policy on purchasing it. The sales assistant simply said there were signs around the shop warning you of this - well one sign was directly behind her at the counter and therefore invisible and the others were small placards placed above the top shelves of clothing on the walls i.e. no one would ever see them either. She said well there are signs, and that's that: "There's nothing I can do".
So I am now left with a mumsy, unflattering, peasant-like top from Pretty Pregnant which I will not be able to wear and have wasted £59.50 on. I cannot buy a replacement from somewhere more decent as I cannot afford it in the run-up to Christmas. Had I known this was the case I would have avoided Pretty Pregnant from the start and gone somewhere more flexible and friendly, such as Seraphine or JoJoMaman Baby.
The moral of this story? DO NOT PURCHASE ANYTHING FROM PRETTY PREGNANT!