This is a very special dress. Very flattering, classic, simple but stunning.
I just finished my wedding on Oct 12, 2019, and I'm selling my wedding dress. I totally loved the dress and all my guests thought the dress was gorgeous, so instead of storing it in my closet, I'd love it to get more love from other brides.
To be very transparent, it was new when I bought it from another bride who decided to go with a more winterish dress because her wedding was postponed by a few months into winter in Chicago. Through the conversation, I could see that she really loved this dress too. I bought it from her in June 2019. Based on the receipt she gave me and what she told me, she bought it in late 2018 but had it perfectly kept in the designer's store. I bought it almost at the original retail price but saved on tax and delivery.
I only wore it during the ceremony and cocktail hour but changed into a different shorter dress for the reception, because we did a swing dance as our first dance. So this dress was only worn for about 2 hours. I had it professionally cleaned right after I came back from the wedding. It's stored in its original garment bag and it is stored in my closet in our smoke-free apartment.
It's size 0. Although I usually wear 0~2 depending on designer and brand. I didn't feel this dress to be very very tight in any sense, which was very nice, because I didn't like the pressure of wearing a glove-tight dress. I used sticky nude bras (without enclosing the front hook, just to give it a fuller shape, because I have a smaller chest (32C).
I didn't alter the waist or straps, only had it altered to my height. (The train was proportionally shortened too.)
Disclosure: The dress, in general, appears to be very clean and like new. It was very easy for one of my bridesmaids to steam and get rid of all the wrinkles from storage and travel before the ceremony. I used fashion tapes to fix the back straps onto my back, which I suggest other brides consider doing with this dress too, but the dry cleaner wasn't careful enough to remove all the marks from the fashion tape. On the inside of the straps, you might see a bit trace of where the fashion tape used to be, but it's not bad and especially not visible at all from the outside when you wear it. So I didn't want to go all the way back to have the dry cleaner fix it again. (You can see on the last picture and judge for yourself.)
Please let me know if you have any other questions.