https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:59:45 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215431 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 22:12:23 +0000 Anonymous 2215431@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I was going to suggest the burn test too, but it definitely sounds like you should send it back! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215399 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 18:24:58 +0000 Jules 2215399@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215380 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:53:19 +0000 Janet 2215380@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>How interesting! I will have to try those tests, thanks for sharing! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215378 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:46:40 +0000 RobinF 2215378@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Interesting. I guess it shows that price isn't always the indication of quality. I have seen boots with a description of a zipper when there is obviously not one in the pictures. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215361 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 10:06:36 +0000 Staysfit 2215361@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the helpful suggestions Jenn and JAileen. &nbsp;I tried the light test using a known fiber content (silk vs poly) and it worked, &nbsp;I’m tempted to cut a few bits from an inner seam so I can try the burn test as well. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215231 Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:29:13 +0000 JAileen 2215231@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>How I tell the difference between natural fiber and man made fiber: &nbsp;I take a tiny bit of fiber and burn it with a match. &nbsp;A natural fiber will turn to powdery ash. &nbsp;Man made fiber will turn into a hard little ball. &nbsp;I do this &nbsp;if I have yarn without a tag. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215228 Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:15:28 +0000 Jenn 2215228@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's so frustrating! It's hard enough trying to gauge if something is going to work through photos and a description, even worse when those things can't be trusted!</p> <p>I did a little googling to see if there was a way to tell silk from polyester and found this:</p> <p><i>Genuine silk changes color when you tilt it, refracting the light as it passes through the prisms in the fiber. Move the cloth in front of a light source. If the shimmering is just a consistent white shine, it’s polyester. If the reflected light changes color, it’s probably silk.</i></p> <p><i><br /></i></p> <i><br /> </i> <p><i></i>Definitely going to try that with my silk because, assuming it works, that'd be a handy test to have in my toolbox for future reference.<i><br /></i> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215201 Tue, 10 Aug 2021 11:30:26 +0000 MidwestrnChic 2215201@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This doesn't surprise me since Zappos is owned by Amazon.&nbsp; So much fake merchandise sold through these companies that I usually avoid buying clothing from these sites. Glad you caught it, Janet and a good heads up for all of us. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215196 Tue, 10 Aug 2021 11:17:59 +0000 Janet 2215196@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Staysfit, I wondered the same thing, whether there is some way to tell one from the other in a case where tags are not available or reliable. It wasn’t really obvious from the feel of the fabric, but it didn’t have a particularly luxurious silk feel to it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215192 Tue, 10 Aug 2021 10:23:25 +0000 Staysfit 2215192@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Is there any way to distinguish silk from polyester without a label? &nbsp;I understand your plan to return the item, and would do the same, but I have sometimes been in resale shops where the clothing labels were cut out by the first owner, &nbsp;making it hard to tell exact fabric content. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215161 Tue, 10 Aug 2021 05:54:25 +0000 Bijou 2215161@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Great that you checked prior to removing the tags. Polyester vs silk is a bad mistake to make. I know which fabric I prefer to wear! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215103 Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:36:36 +0000 bj1111 2215103@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I’m more inclined to attribute to a sewing error.</p> <p>That said, it is frustrating and disappointing esp when you stalked this blouse. Not a fun surprise. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215093 Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:04:20 +0000 nemosmom 2215093@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh my gosh! How frustrating! I agree with your keeping the Paige - the design seems much better than the Joie, even if the fabric of the Joie <i>were</i> 100% silk, the Paige one seems like a better cut.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215091 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 23:52:37 +0000 Anonymous 2215091@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Not that there's necessarily a connection but Amazon bought Zappos a while back. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215085 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 23:41:30 +0000 Janet 2215085@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don’t know. I’ve never heard of fakes being sold through Zappos. Amazon, yes, but not Zappos. It’s hard to know without seeing another sample of the blouse, and considering the style issues with it, I’m not inclined to order another one to compare. </p> <p>Cat2, I also thought it was odd, as Joie is usually good quality, although they’re not always silk. It didn’t seem shabby or poorly made, just not right for me. </p> <p>The experience did make me think I want to check content labels more carefully in the future. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215082 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 23:29:07 +0000 Anonymous 2215082@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>And Neiman Marcus and Saks.</p> <p>Could you have received some kind of fake from Zappos? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215076 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 22:59:02 +0000 cat2 2215076@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The same blouse is described as silk on the Nordstrom website. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215072 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 22:40:06 +0000 slim cat 2215072@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Weird. Something similar I experienced at the Rack description- wrong many times in fabric content and in style. Sometimes I want to meet people who are responsible for on-line descriptions and ask them how they do their job .. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215065 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 22:26:58 +0000 cat2 2215065@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>How odd, Joie usually is really good quality silk. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215058 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 22:02:20 +0000 Angie 2215058@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b>Janet</b> and <b>JAileen</b>, you are <i>for sure </i>right about descriptions/photos being wrong on websites. Must check and use your own common sense.&nbsp;</p> <p>I've worked for a garment manufacturer, and although it's rare, items can make it to retail with the wrong labels in them, and are not recalled from stores! It's too costly.&nbsp;</p> <p>I have these jeans and LOVE THEM! The wrong photo is both on the Nordies and Frame website. The jeans are not ripped and torn - otherwise I would not have bought them. The photo was not corrected either. I bought them<i> in stores</i> so I could see that they weren't torn.&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215054 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 21:41:30 +0000 JAileen 2215054@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I’m glad you’re still able to return the blouse. &nbsp;I see a lot of bad descriptions. &nbsp;Here’s one example: </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215053 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 21:39:24 +0000 Janet 2215053@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I dunno, Angie, I’m more likely to believe what’s on the label on the actual garment rather than on the website. I’d be curious to know if any other buyers of this blouse found this issue. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215051 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 21:35:52 +0000 Angie 2215051@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sounds like the wrong label was sewn into the garment and QC did not check!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215050 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 21:30:55 +0000 Minaminu 2215050@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>How bizarre! RL makes a valid point! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215045 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 21:18:33 +0000 rachylou 2215045@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This has happened to me before - same item, different fabric. If it were food, a sub like that could be dangerous. Just sayin’! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215034 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 20:30:30 +0000 Janet 2215034@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I already packed it up to return, but the tag says 100 polyester with a 100 polyester lining… but it’s only one ply of fabric so I don’t even know why they mention a lining! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215033 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 20:28:26 +0000 kkards 2215033@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What’s even weirded…Zappos says it’s silk with a poly liner …when I looked at this blouse sites no one else mentions it being lined. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215030 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 20:27:03 +0000 chewyspaghetti 2215030@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>If you buy outside of the manufacturer, you are likely to get a fake anymore- it's sad. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215028 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 20:24:58 +0000 Anonymous 2215028@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Weird ! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fabric-content-misrepresentation#post-2215026 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 20:16:56 +0000 Janet 2215026@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>So, on my recent NAS post about the 7FAM jeans and black Paige blouse, I got a suggestion to check out a very similar blouse by Joie. It’s twice the price, but I decided to check it out because it was advertised on the Joie website as well as others that it is silk. I ordered it from Zappos (it was the last one left) and it arrived today. Stock pic below. <a href="https://www.zappos.com/p/asin/B07RCK8B6S" rel="nofollow">https://www.zappos.com/p/asin/B07RCK8B6S</a></p> <p>Well, the tag inside the so-called silk Joie blouse says 100% polyester! It’s no nicer than the Paige blouse — in fact, I much prefer the style of the Paige one because 1) there are buttons at the neckline and the neckline isn’t too deep or wide, while the Joie is quite wide AND deep at the neckline (contrary to what the photos below would lead you to believe!), 2) the back on the Paige has a nice separate yoke detail, while the Joie one has no yoke (just one piece of fabric in back) and is gathered at the back of the neck, a style I never like on myself, 3) the sleeves are slightly too short on the Joie, plus they are puffed at the shoulder, which pushes the style into more froufy than I like. </p> <p>I’m sending back the fake silk Joie blouse and keeping the Paige one. I’ll have the hemline tailored and curved to the proper length and shape for me. </p> <p>Lesson learned: don’t trust the fabric content printed on websites! Check the label when the piece arrives. I will sometimes buy polyester if it has a quality feel, but I want descriptions to be honest! </p>