Given East Meets Dress is online-only, I initially thought the sample dress kit is really great idea to try out the dresses and see the fabric material & color in person before making a decision. But I'm so disappointed. One of the two dresses that sent to me was completely different dress than the one I selected. I was also interested in wine red but got a sample dress in red. While $50 credit goes back toward dress purchase is nice, but the sample dress kit was not helpful especially considering the price of $75 for only two dresses.

I think $75 is a steep price to try on 2 dresses that come in random sizes. One dress was probably a size 0 and the other one was probably a 12. This is mentioned under the product description, but only as an asterisk. It was nice to see the quality of the dresses, but very difficult to tell what the dresses would actually look like on my body. It would be better if we could actually pick the sizes and if more dresses were available as options to try on. I appreciate the $50 credit offered if you return within a week, but I do not think it is worth the price since it wasn’t very helpful overall.

I was anxious about ordering a dress online and not being able to try it on first, so I ordered the Sample Cheongsam Dress Kit. This was the best decision because the dresses were even more beautiful in person! Additionally, in the sample kit, East Meets Dress included a tie and hair pin for me