It's been a few months and I never heard back from the store about my experience, so let me say…read morethis: If you're considering buying a dress from Glitterati, DON'T. And don't even think about having alterations done here unless you want to pay hundreds of dollars for a shoddy job that doesn't get finished on time, or if you want to get verbally berated by the seamstress when you try to point out the issues to her. Heed the warnings of the 1-star reviews. I wish I had. I would have saved lots of money (and a few tears after getting yelled at in the store).
My ordeal started when I bought a mermaid-style dress back in September. It was missing some sequins (they still charged me full price), and it needed alterations since it was a size too big and the beading needed to be replaced. I paid for rush alterations since my event was happening soon. In my fitting, the seamstress pinned all the places the dress needed to be taken in: straps, zipper, back seam below the zipper, pinned both layers of hems to cover my heels (which I wore to the fitting), and marked all the places there was beadwork missing.
But despite paying a lot of extra money for rush alterations, I wasn't told I could pick up the dress until a day after the date they originally stated. I live out of the state, which I'd told them, so I'd already planned my travel around the deadline they set. The seamstress wasn't there when I picked it up, and they handed me the dress as though I were expected to just take it without even trying it on.
But I tried on the dress before I left, and it was a good thing I did: none of the missing beadwork had been replaced. There were still loose threads and sequins hanging limply off this very expensive dress. Many of the alterations the seamstress had pinned in the fitting weren't done, including taking in the lower seam to fit the mermaid dress closer to my body. And despite pinning the hem so it would cover my shoes, the inner hem was a full 4" too short. You can't add fabric, obviously, so the hem was ruined. I told the cashier all the problems, so she took careful notes and said she'd take the dress back to the seamstress to fix and would let me know when I could pick it up. I also requested the seamstress be there when I pick up the dress again.
By the time the dress was ready a second time, it was already several days after the original deadline, so this could no longer be considered a rush job (but they were still happy to take my money for it). I put on the dress and the seamstress pointed out all the places she'd fixed the beading, bragging how she'd spent several hours fixing it the day before. I reminded her that I had paid for this to be fixed by the original deadline, but she hadn't done it as she'd promised. I also pointed out the hem that was too short, and that there were a couple places she'd pinned in the fitting and they hadn't been taken in. Parts of the dress were still hanging off my body. She proceeded to shout at me, yelling how she'd spent hours fixing the beading (again, a job I'd already paid her to do the first time that hadn't gotten done), yet refusing to address the ruined hem or the other issues with the fit. Finally, she got her assistant to quickly take in the back seam (it was slapdash and done in a few minutes). She never apologized for the lateness of the dress, never acknowledged the alterations she had promised but didn't deliver, and shouted at me during the entire appointment while I quietly asked for the fixes I'd paid for.
Eventually, I asked if I could just get my money back. Not only was this no longer a rush job since I didn't get the dress by the deadline I requested, but the hem was ruined by being cut several inches too short, the alterations had not been done properly, and I had been verbally berated for asking that the repairs be done and the alterations be fixed. The kind person at the counter said she would ask her manager, took my phone number and everything. I never heard back. I tried calling, but no one picked up. I finally left a voicemail with my phone number and recounted the whole experience, but never heard back. Since I live out of state and travel a lot for work, I can't just go into the store to resolve this on the off chance a manager will be there (there wasn't a manager there any time I went in during this ordeal).
I wore the dress to my event, and none of the beading fixes held. The same strands are hanging off the dress again, and the sequins and beading look patchy. Since the alterations weren't done right, the skirt was constantly bunching around my hips and making the hem ride up even shorter. After everything had been done so poorly (if at all), I was actually embarrassed to be seen in the dress. And still no word about getting any of my money back. Not even an apology.
So do yourself a favor: go to Macy's. Shop on Amazon. Go to literally any dress shop and seamstress except this one. Save yourself the money and headache.