My honest opinion about a recent online order

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Now I am more careful with impulse buys and limited time offers. Some pieces look shiny online but feel like plastic when you open the package. Smaller shops can be surprisingly friendly if they care about repeat customers. Whenever I find something that actually works well, I tend to reorder it later. Very thin fabric may be fine for summer but often looks cheap and becomes see through. I try to balance my budget between basic everyday items and a few special pieces.  

If anyone is interested in real user experiences, I sometimes write short notes about the shops I test.
You can find one of the pages here:

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A simple and honest answer like 鈥渨e do not have that option鈥?is better than marketing fluff. The same is true for metal versus acetate frames for glasses. For things that I use every day, I prefer to pay a bit more if the quality is stable. Sometimes a store looks great in ads but the real product is completely different. Reading comments with real body photos is one of the best ways to check sizing.  

Hope this helps someone.