One afternoon, a plus-sized woman named Chloe walked into a wedding salon, dressed in a sweatshirt. She immediately became the object of mean taunts by 2 mean salesclerks Alicia and Harriet.
"Good afternoon, I would like to buy a wedding dress," Chloe stated, but was immediately met with scorn.
"For whom? Are you a bridesmaid?" Alicia taunted.
"No, I'm the bride," Chloe replied. Alicia and Harriet laughed unpleasantly. "Are you serious? Have you even taken a good look at yourself in the mirror? You can't find a dress that fits you here," Alicia said with a mocking laugh. She and Harriet laughed at Chloe's body type and modest appearance.
"Look at the price tags...Do you think you can afford a dress from this salon?" Harriet added with disdain. Chloe tried to ignore their unkind remarks and walked towards a mannequin. "It seems like you don't understand," she said. "I have the money, and I'm getting married soon. I'd like to try on some of your dresses. This one, for example. Please find my size and take it to the fitting room." Alicia and Harriet let out a mocking laugh. After that, Alicia took a wedding dress and shot Chloe with a look of disgust. The latter looked at the wedding dress and frowned.
"Are you sure you got the right size? It might be too small for me," Chloe asked. "It's the biggest size that designers and sewing shops make. If it doesn't fit you, wedding dresses for someone your size simply don't exist," Alicia said unkindly. Chloe reluctantly agreed to try on the wedding dress. It was too small for her, and she could not zip up the dress. When she tried asking for help to zip up the wedding dress, Alicia and Harriet were indifferent.
"It's going to come apart at the seams. Take it off right now and get out of here," Harriet ordered. Chloe broke down in tears of despair. "This wedding salon is the best in town, and you're saying you don't have a dress for me. How is that possible?" she said tearfully.
"We don't have dresses your size, period. Whose fault is it that they don't make dresses for hippos?" Alicia shrugged her shoulders and said in an unkind manner. "How dare you?" Chloe said while wiping away her tears. "With all due respect, even if we had your size, you obviously can't afford a dress from our salon. Do you see the 5-figure price tag? Take the dress off right now," Harriet ordered and pulled at the wedding dress. This made Chloe feel humiliated.
"Why are you judging me by my appearance?" she questioned. "How else do you expect us to judge you? By your inner world?" Alicia retorted. "It's a shame that your inner world can't be seen under that huge layer of fat," Harriet added. They both laughed.
"Do you have any idea how hurtful your comments are?" Chloe asked. "The days before the wedding are the most important days in any woman's life. I'm supposed to be glowing with joy, not crying at a wedding salon." However, this did not stop Alicia and Harriet's mean comments. "Well, glow with joy. And be grateful that some loser is marrying you," Alicia mocked. Chloe left the wedding salon feeling heartbroken. "Maybe women who look like me don't deserve to be happy," she thought to herself. With tears, she told her fiance Miles what happened at the salon. "They said they don't have dresses for people like me," she said tearfully. "Honey, why don't we wear ordinary clothes to the wedding? I don't have a choice." Miles consoled her and said, "Darling, what is this nonsense? There are many gorgeous dresses you can wear. You just went to the wrong salon." He then took Chloe's hand and kissed it.
A week later, the wedding of Miles Ko, the heir of a huge business empire and his beloved woman made headlines in Hong Kong. Flora, the owner of the wedding salon Chloe patronized, frowned upon reading the magazine. "Chloe's gown was made by a designer whose dresses are only sold at our salon. The most famous bride in Hong Kong bought a dress from us. Why didn't you tell me?" she asked. Alicia and Harriet looked up. "Who are you referring to?" Alicia asked. "Come here, I'll show you," Flora beckoned them. Alicia and Harriet froze with shock when they saw Chloe as the bride. "No... She tried on a few dresses but didn't like any of them. She didn't buy her dress here," Alicia tried to explain frantically, but Flora did not seem convinced.
"She didn't like any of them? What do you mean? She wore the same dress that's sold at our boutique," she threw the question at the salesclerks. However, they kept mum. They did not have the courage to tell Flora what really happened at the boutique. "I didn't... We...," Harriet stuttered. Just then, Miles and Chloe walked into the boutique hand in hand.
"Mr. Ko. It's a great honor for us to see you and your wife here. We're so delighted," Flora greeted them. However, Miles was displeased. "Well, we aren't," he said. "Do you know how my wife was treated here?" "Calm down. Tell me what happened," Flora said, and sat both Miles and Chloe at the sofa outside the dressing room. Once seated, Chloe told Flora what had happened at the salon that day. "Wait... Did they say dresses your size don't exist?" Flora asked, stunned.
"That's exactly what they said," Chloe said firmly, and looked in Alicia and Harriet's direction. Flora stood up and approached them angrily. "Come here. What is this?" she asked angrily, pointing at a mannequin. "Can't you see? It's a dress of the right size."
"Yes, ma'am, but we thought she couldn't afford it. We didn't want her to ruin the dresses," Harriet tried to explain, but Flora was not appeased. "I didn't hire you to make assumptions and judge people by their appearance. You're supposed to be courteous and nice to our clients," she scolded them. She then approached Miles and Chloe. "I'm sorry for what happened. They will be punished. If you didn't mind me asking, where did you ultimately get that dress?" she said apologetically. Chloe then revealed that the day after the failed attempt to make a purchase, Miles took her to the office of the designer of that wedding dress, where Elsie Tong, the designer reassured her that she made dresses of Chloe's size. Elise then measured Chloe's parameters and personally made the dress of her dreams for her, which fit perfectly. "Elsie Tong promised she would stop shipping her dresses to your salon. Continuing to sell them here goes against her vision of the fashion industry," Chloe added. "But I didn't know anything. Is there anything I can do to fix this situation?" Flora asked. "I don't know," Chloe shrugged her shoulders and said. "Your boutique ruined the magical pre-wedding days for me."
The rude salesclerks, Alicia and Harriet were fired on the spot, where Flora rebuked them for having no shame and no conscience and told them they would not get any good references. The designer kept her word and did not make her new collection available to the wedding salon. "I hope I manage to change her mind," Flora muttered as she looked at the empty hangers. In the meantime, Miles treated Chloe with care and love, and she soon forgot about the incident as if it was a bad dream. Flora, the owner of the wedding salon learned a valuable lesson, hiring more professional staff and preventing the same incident from happening.
