Monday 5 January 2015

Second Aliexpress Review

So, after my first experience with Aliexpress, I decided to take the leap and order once again. This time I decided to order the rest of the sailor scout dresses (I have Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Moon from Living Dead Clothing so I will do comparison).

So, the produc I bought was from seller: International Trade Shops - the items purchased: all of the Sailor Scout dresses except Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Moon in Free size (link: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Explosion-models-Europe-and-America-Star-Empty-Digital-Printing-Wholesale-Sailor-Moon-Pleated-Dress-Brand-designer/2041320051.html) 

I ordered on the 22nd November 2014, I had gotten a bit excited and hit buy the day before I got paid. I made contact with the seller and advised I would pay on the 23rd, the seller was understanding. I paid on 23rd November 2014 and awaited a shipping confirmation. I still had no shipping confirmation so messaged the seller on 3rd December 2014, the seller shipped my items that day. I recieved my items today (Monday 05/01/2015)

For communication I got the seller 3/5, they did respond to my messages however never let me know why the shipping was "delayed". 

Here's the picture of how I received the package and products


The packaging was pretty good, not only was it super hard to get the tape of the package but each dress was individually wrapped and tied with some ribbon. Nothing got damaged, however it could have. 

I give packaging a 4/5 as some bubble wrap or additional wrapping could stop any possibly damage in the future. 

Now for the review of the products, all the items can be found under the link above so I will just do each sailor scout then a combined review at the bottom. I will compare them all to the Living Dead Clothing Sailor Jupiter skater skirt in M that I have. 

So first I will post the Living Dead Clothing Sailor Mercury skater dress in M.
Front, Side view (as you can see, the point from the back half of the skater matches almost perfect with the front) and back.

Close up details of the collar, bow on the chest and how on the back plus skirt colouring. Plus what the inside stitching/hem/tag looks like.

The fit of the LDC skater is perfect, great length too. The way they have printed the colour and skirt with the darker and lighter lines plus the shading on the skirt has definitely added some depth to a normal skater. The bows are outlined well so you can clearly see the top and bottom, same with the back bow. The bottom is hemmed night with a tag telling size and care instructions.


Aliexpress Sailor Mini Moon
Front, Side view (as you can see, unlike the LDC skater the side points do not match) and back


Now close ups of the front bow, collar, back bow and skirt colouring. Plus the tag, inside sewing and this one had some marks on the inside that are not viewable on the outside.

The Sailor Mini Moon from Aliexpress clearly has a few flaws, one being that the side don't match up with their points, the collar at the back doesn't look anywhere near as good as the LDC collar. The printing on the fabric however is quite good and they did the fading in the skirt just like LDC. The skirt part is not as full as the LDC skirt.


Aliexpress Sailor Mars
Front, Side view (once again the sides do not match up) and back


Now close ups of the front bow, collar, back bow and skirt colouring. Plus the tag, inside sewing.

So the AliExpress Sailor Mars is much like the Mini Moon dress, however the bow at the back of the sailor Mars dress is hardly visible as they did it the same colour as the dress. The printing is quite good apart from the bow again and the collar yet again looks nothing like the nicer collar on the LDC dress. This skirt didn't have any fading, but I believe it looks good with the dark and light. The skirt part is not as full as the LDC skirt.


Aliexpress Sailor Venus
Front, Side view (once again the sides do not match up but it's not as noticanle/bad as the previous dresses) and the back


Now close ups of the front bow, collar, back bow and skirt colouring. Plus the tag, inside sewing.

The Aliexpress Sailor Venus is just like the other two dresses in make and sizing. However the collar on the Sailor Venus dress has the collar a bit different, it's fades from the top (a light orange to a dark orange), which none of the previous dresses have done. The bows are both printed nicely and the skirt has the dark and light much like the Sailor Mars dress. The skirt part is not as full as the LDC skirt.


Aliexpress Sailor Saturn
Front, Side view (the sides on this one almost match up perfectly, definitely the best so far out of the order) and the back


Now close ups of the front bow, collar, back bow and skirt colouring. Plus the tag, inside sewing.

The Aliexpress Sailor Saturn is just like the other dresses in make and sizing. However the collar on the Sailor Venus dress has the collar a bit different, it's fades from the top (a light purple to a dark purple), which none of the previous dresses have done and no white lines at all. The bows are both printed ok, however some more outlining in the bows would have made them pop more as the bow on the bust is a little hard to tell what part is what and the skirt has the dark and light and the fading which is very effective. The skirt part is not as full as the LDC skirt.


Aliexpress Sailor Neptune
Front, Side view (the sides on this one are yet again miss matched) and the back


Now close ups of the front bow, collar, back bow and skirt colouring. Plus the tag, inside sewing.

The Aliexpress Sailor Neptune is just like the other dresses in make and sizing. However the collar on the Sailor Neptune dress, much like the Sailor Saturn has the collar a bit different, it's fades from the top (a light blur/white to a dark) and no white lines at all. The front bow is ok, however some more outlining in the bow would have made them pop more as it is a little hard to tell what part is what, the back bow is almost invisible on the skirt much like the Sailor Mars dress, so outlining would have helped with that. Thethe skirt has the dark and light and the fading which is very effective. The skirt part is not as full as the LDC skirt.


Aliexpress Sailor Pluto
Front, Side view (the sides on this one are almost matching) and the back


Now close ups of the front bow, collar, back bow and skirt colouring. Plus the tag, inside sewing.

The Aliexpress Sailor Pluto is just like the other dresses in make and sizing. However the colour of the Sailor Pluto dress are grey instead of black. The bows are ok, however some more outlining in the bows would have made them pop more as it is a little hard to tell what part is what. The skirt has the dark and light and slight fading which could have been more more effected if there was more black/very dark grey.  The skirt part is not as full as the LDC skirt.


Aliexpress Sailor Uranus 
Front, Side view (the sides on this one are not matching) and the back


Now close ups of the front bow, collar, back bow and skirt colouring. Plus the tag, inside sewing.


The Aliexpress Sailor Uranus is just like the other dresses in make and sizing. However the collar on the Sailor Neptune dress, much like the Previous few has the collar a bit different, it's fades from the top (a light blur/white to a dark) and no white lines at all. The front bows look a lot better on this as they are appropriately outlined. Thethe skirt has the dark and light and the fading which is very effective. The skirt part is not as full as the LDC skirt.

So, my review for quality of the product is a 4/5, I have not given a perfect 5 due to the few bits of printing on bows where an much better outline would have made it pop more. Also the variations of collars was not very good in my opinion as half the dresses had a white bit on the collar and other don't. However the printing of the skirts does look good on all skirts. Also it would have been better if they were hemmed. 

Shipping, my score for shipping would be 3/5 as the seller did not ship until I asked them too and that was 10 days after payment with no notice as to why it had taken so long, and I had to ask them to ship it they didn't just do it and send me the shipping information. I recieved the items over a month after I paid and I believe I would have received it sooner if it had been sent on time.

A round review for this seller is 14/20, I probably would recommend this seller if you don't mind contacting them to ship your products and a nice $7 dress. The product itself was good quality, however I believe I could get better from another seller but for the price this was a fair experience and the quality was better then could have been. 


That's me for this review, after a bad day of work this definitely took my mind of off it and I hope it was helpful :) xox



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