The struggle of picking out a homecoming dress can be stressful. You begin online, trying to find the perfect dress, and after sifting through dozens of sites, you find “the one.” It checks all of your boxes: with the perfect color, design and overall style – it’s the perfect dress.

So you send the dress to your friends, they love it, you check your measurements, pick your size and order it. Then you wait three days and hear nothing. Five days: nothing. Two weeks: nothing.

“Order is pending.”

Because of this, many girls have struggled with ordering dresses online, especially with the risk that it won’t arrive on time for Homecoming. Lucy in the Sky, an online dress shopping site, is notorious in this sense. People order their dresses a month or even two months in advance and it still doesn’t come on time.

Now what happens is that the dress you thought was the perfect dress hasn’t arrived and you are stuck dressless for the first exciting event of the year.

“A lot of my friends and I have backup dresses, but still I loved the dress that I picked out. I even emailed Lucy in the sky but got an automated message reply back, which I found very frustrating and annoying,” sophomore Julia Levinson said.

To combat this issue, some girls order multiple dresses from other shops, such as Oh Polly, Hello Molly and Windsor, in addition to Lucy in the Sky.

“Around mid-September, I ordered three different dresses: one from Hello Molly, one from Oh Polly and one from Lucy in the sky. It has been a month since I ordered all three dresses. My dresses from Hello Molly and Oh Polly have arrived, but my Lucy in the Sky dress has not come yet, sophomore Alexandra Royzman said.

Days before homecoming, the dress finally comes in. You’re ecstatic because the dress you were so excited about has arrived, but to your surprise, it doesn’t fit.

“I find the sizing process for buying a dress online to be quite annoying in the first place, but when ordering from Lucy in the Sky, the sizing is really inconsistent and either the sizing is too small or too large,” junior Gillian Fannon said.

The trend continues every year: girls order from Lucy in the Sky and don’t see the results they were expecting. Lucy in the Sky continues to disappoint customers, whether it be sizing issues or simply not arriving on time.