These Girls Sharing Their Prom Dress Fails Show Why You Should Never Buy Online

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PUBLISHED Jun. 21 2017, 9:21 a.m. ET

UPDATED Apr. 7 2021, 3:14 p.m. ET

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Online retail is the present and the future.  Companies like Amazon and Alibaba have proven that everyone wants to shop in the comfort of their own home and when you add in things like Amazon Prime and 2-day shipping, well the process just becomes that much more amazing.  I am sure we are not far away from drones filling the sky just delivering things to people at all times.  And impulse buying is just going to get worse and worse, I guess sometimes it could be cool though to get something completely useful for about 2 seconds and that you would never use again.  Either way, there are still some things that probably should not be bought online.  Sometimes, being in a store and trying something on to make sure it looks okay is probably the best move. 

Everyone wants to look their best on prom night, the first evening of your young adult life where everyone is expected to look better than they ever have before. There are lots of strategies for finding the perfect look, like wearing your own mom's old dress, for example. Here's one thing you should never do: order your dress online.

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It's very tempting when you see a picture of a woman in a perfectly fitted couture gown, bedazzled to the heavens because it makes you think that something of similar quality will arrive in the mail. And they're so cheap! Cheap is still too much to pay for all of these. At least the pictures of these epic prom dress fails are hilarious:

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What's a girl to do? This girl who paid a designer to make her dress had a disaster, too. Sadly, the only solution is to get in the car and drive to a dang store. Try it before you buy it! 

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