June 2019 by Alexis J.
Honestly not worth your time. Most of the reviews here are from about ten years ago, which says a lot about how time has marched on. Stepping in the store wasn't much bigger than I expected of the strip mall. Went with my Cis-bi-lady friend, myself a trans lady and pretty openly. Two hours into hours of operation, and the lights were off. My friend and I walk in to a small inventory that was really blink-and-miss it, having walked right by the corsets we came looking for from online. Ultimately neither of us bought corsets, we found dresses we liked instead. There wasn't a price tag on the dress, though the owner insisted the price was $100 lower than a catalog would charge for the dress. As my friend (who is the same size as me) had her dress in hand, THE OWNER ACTUALLY SHAMED HER FOR HER WEIGHT. If I had done that at my retail job, I'd be fired on the spot. It is under no circumstance acceptable for a store owner to say to a customer. I go in the fitting room, and see a sign saying it isn't a "dressing service." For those unaware, dressing services are a sort of dated concept for crossdressers and closeted transwomen to try on clothes. Most places like that have closed, and the ones that haven't are very niche. It felt a little condescending, since I'm aware this is a store and that my intent to buy depended entirely on sizing. But I pushed the thought from my mind for the moment. The dress fit nice, I went to pay while my friend tried hers on, but the store is cash only. Nothing on the website said they were cash only. So we, now determined on these dresses went to the BP in walking distance, got cash from the ATM, and walked back to pay. While paying, I noticed the owner left a pack of cigarettes and lighter on the counter, another thing that would get me canned in a heartbeat. Honestly at this point if we weren't sold on the product, we would have not finished paying. To summarize: Store was great ten years ago when general retailers were less accepting of trans people. In this day and age, the transpeople who need a store like this most, with difficulty passing due to weight would not find it accessible with a fatshaming owner. If you're going to buy clothes that fit your shoulders as a transwoman (a problem that bumps my size up) a plus size store or Amazon will get you far further. If you are going for kink/fetish stuff, a kink/fetish store will get you far further. In the past, where this was the less shitty option between here and transphobic big box retailers, this may have looked stellar enough to earn its positive reviews here. But the rest of the world moved on, and big box retailers have the better service, and variety now.