THE LAST ASSISTANT I HAD MADE HERSELF MY PERSONAL STYLIST WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!!! THIS IS A LONGER REVIEW THAN I INTENDED SO I NEEDED THAT KNOW FOR THE SKIMMERS. SHE IS NOT SOLELY WHAT MY REVIEW IS BASED ON.
The DB on Chenal over all is a good experience, depending on who you get and the day you go. I have been a few times in the last few weeks at different times of the week I have not been helped by the same person each time and over all 2/3 were good times. So my advice, if you can go during the week ,during non peek hours you feel the most taken care of. Saturdays and Sundays you are pretty much thrown in a dress and made to wait while your person does the same to 2 or 3 more girls. Not the problem, its understandable weekends are the Black Fridays of bridal stores. Plus my girl I had on the Wednesday was total chill made me feel comfortable, was really knowledge and understanding. We walked together around the dresses she pulled some described their look and the added them to my pile or put it back and was very respectful of my budget. I am not having a bridesmaid or anything but she really made me feel like I was shopping with a friend, not someone on commission.
Now the last girl I had, she is experienced, she had ideas that were nice, some that werent but its all about feeling out your client, I get it. But there was no real communication, where the other girl got to know me this one I felt like i was putting out. She also made me feel stupid when she walked in and I had on my petticoat on wrong, all I was told was to put it on by myself. But she talked to me like you would a 6 year old who just ate paint. It should be noted the wonderful girl I had before not only helped me into the corset and made sure it was set right on my frame she also showed me that laying the petticoat under the corset changed the effect as apposed to it being over it, depending on the dress I chose. Which really helped and made a big change in how dresses felt. So anyways, I felt a bit of pressure from her as far as picking, even though I tried to make it clear I would not be making my pick today. i had people that i needed to show before I picked the dress that were unable to be in the flesh. But my story continues, again, this day was not the best experience I had had, but again the weekend is not great to go on. I tried to make small talk with her as I had the girl before she didn't really seem interested had a slight chip on her shoulder it seemed. I didn't press much when it looked like the conversation was pretty much not going to be a back and forth. I know, I get it, you had 2 other brides. But you are seeing me naked so a little conversation would help. If you can go on like a 1pm on a Tuesday or Wednesday that is great! Again cannot say anything bad about my previous girl.
But here is the part that really pissed me off. During her putting me into my 4th dress she mentions in a whisper if I would prefer to have her as my exclusive stylist, i could, so that way I will only ever be helped it would be by her. I was kinda shocked she suggested it because we really didn't have that much chemistry and I had openly raved about the girl I had seen prior because she made me feel so helped. So I just responded with an "oh, really, how would one do that?" figuring that was the most polite way to kinda drop off the conversation. And maybe make the other wonderful girl I had seen my stylist. Of which she said to just tell the manager and they will get it taken care of. I nodded mumbled an "interesting" and moved on. Well at the end of the appointment I was coming out of the room in my street clothes and she comes up with her card and tells me that she went ahead and told the manager I wanted to make that change so she got it all taken care of. I in no way implied that I was interested. And am a little put out about the fact that now I have to call them and tell them that no, I did not say I wanted her. And i think it is a little shitty especially if my assumptions about them being a commission store are true, that she would go to these lengths without getting the customers verbal 100% approval. I am not a fan of confrontations and I embarrass easy. And I know how it is going to look on my behalf, because I work in retail too and I know that a good 90% of the time the customer is NOT right, even if we smile and take it. But this upset me fairly deeply that she would do something like this that affects her sister workers jobs and commission as well.
To sum up, weekends, they will suck, but if thats the only time you can go have a bit of understanding. If it had been my only experience I would be on the DB sucks train with about half the other reviews. But I have seen during the week the values and professionalism that DB probably preach to their employees thoroughly throughout their career. I just think that over all this one employees petty behavior kinda put a stamp on my whole experience. read more