We’ve sung the praises of the tailoring available in Saigon and Hoi An, but it hasn’t all been good. Days before Jen and I left on our 4 week-long Vietnam roadtrip, we had some tailoring done by the same woman who made our dress shirts when we first arrived. I ordered two dresses, but Jen was more ambitious – she ordered a number of different dresses and duvet covers. We had shopped for the fabric, given the tailor pictures of the dresses we wanted made and had numerous measurements taken to ensure the dresses were perfect.

Well, perfect they were not. The dress that Jen and I were most excited about was a black dress that we had found online. It looked awesome in the picture and the thought of having it tailored to fit for $13 made it even sweeter. They were not as we had imagined…

We were laughing before we even tried them on. They just weren’t anything like the picture we had given her – they looked more like bad 80′s prom dresses. Jen’s didn’t even fit properly. With all those detailed measurements, I’m still not sure how the tailor got it so wrong. It was so bad that we decided a photo shoot was warranted.

This is Jen and I checking out our dresses for the first time.  I believe Jen’s exact words were, “What the fuck?”

Then we took the photo shoot outside. Leaning up against a motorbike seemed appropriate.

Then we started posing with the staff. Pretty sure they thought we had lost our minds.

There were many more pictures taken, but you get the idea. What will happen to these amazing dresses, you ask? Well, Jen’s landed firmly in the garbage can, but I’m still packing mine around…I figure it’ll make a great 80′s Hallowe’en costume one day.