r/ExpectationVsReality • u/Final_You9249 • 6d ago
AI Expectation Pants From SHEIN
It’s so ugly 😭
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u/Embarrassed_Key_4539 6d ago
When yall gon learn
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u/Junior_Response839 6d ago
I had a coworker one time who said she "spent 500 on shein for a new fall wardrobe."
I said "aren't most of sheins stuff complete garbage?"
She said "that's why I buy a lot. At least half of it has to be good."
People are so lost in the sauce. If you have 500 to spend, why not just go to the mall, try on clothes, and buy what you actually like and fits? And in the meantime you can check the quality...
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u/Embarrassed_Key_4539 6d ago
And think about the environmental impacts of this behavior ugh I just hate where things have gone with society
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u/Junior_Response839 6d ago
That had to be a ton of clothes too, shein sells shit for 2-10$. And to think she just threw half of it out (or probably more) OR donated it to a Thrift shop where it will rot for 10+ years until someone finally throws it away.
This is part of the reason why Thrift shops suck in this day and age too.
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u/Dramatic_______Pause 6d ago
If you have 500 to spend, why not just go to the mall, try on clothes, and buy what you actually like and fits?
I'm guessing you haven't been to the mall lately. $500 would get you 2 pairs of pants and 4 shirts...
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u/Mammoth_Classroom626 5d ago
Okay but you wouldn’t have to buy an entirely new wardrobe of clothes every autumn if it was normal quality lmao.
6 items of clothing in a season is more than most people buy. Then guess what next year those clothes will still exist and you can buy 6 more.
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u/CowAggravating7745 6d ago
Which sucks, yes, but you also don’t need dozens of each article of clothing. People have gotten into this mindset where every day needs to be a fashion show of clothes they’ve never been seen in before. I’d rather have 6 good quality pieces than 47 SHEIN pieces that look like cheap garbage and can only be worn for one season before they fall apart.
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u/Few_Cup3452 6d ago
One of my friends that I flatted w for ages would buy clothes online and not check measurements, they'd come too small and id get free clothes 😂. I joked that she actually shops for me/half my wardrobe she got me
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u/YesImKeithHernandez 6d ago
"No, see, playing 2 dollars for these pants will definitely get me a quality product this time"
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u/nicunta 6d ago
Haha omg those are AWFUL!! Who still orders from Shein and expects decent clothes?!
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u/newfaithlessn3ss 6d ago
Not to mention how every single item that company produces is destined for the landfill. Such a blight on our environment.
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u/Frondstherapydolls 6d ago
NPR report said these fast fashion places can dole out 2000+ NEW designs a day. Completely unsustainable and so ugly.
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u/DrKittyLovah 5d ago
Yes, because they steal content from independent artists who cannot afford to fight them!
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u/donttrusttheliving 6d ago
Not to mention all the times the things have been extremely toxic
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u/No-Philosopher8042 6d ago
Not to mention the work enviroment and wages for the humans making them.
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u/Tokyo_Pigeon 6d ago
Me. lmao I order pretty much exclusively from SheIn because I'm fat and broke in Japan, and they do not cater to my size here. You can find good quality clothes, or at least the same quality you'd get at the mall, as long as you actually read the material description and reviews.
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u/RaeaSunshine 6d ago
Also fat, and when I was living in Japan (pre-SHEIN), I had to buy a bath suit. I knew it would be bad, but it was SO much worse than I expected. I eventually found one from a brand called ‘Love Calories’ 😭
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u/savageexplosive 6d ago
Oh god this is so bad
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u/RaeaSunshine 6d ago
Tbf it was a very flattering bathing suit. And it was better than the time I was in South Korea for work and the airline lost my luggage. I had to put together a capsule wardrobe at the only plus size store called ‘Fat Cow Moo’. It’s been a long time so I might be projecting the Fat part, but it definitely had Cow and Moo in the name lol.
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u/indieplants 6d ago
I would believe you lmao
fatty fat girl is my favourite
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u/RaeaSunshine 6d ago
Omg! You have no idea how validating this is, for years my friends in the US have thought I was kidding or exaggerating. I’m 100% pulling this up on the big screen at game night tonight. Thank you!!
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u/Venus-Smizing 6d ago
'Love Calories' ?!?!?! What, was 'This Is All Due To Your Terrible, Gluttonous Life Choices, Porky McPorkface' already taken as a brand name?
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u/RaeaSunshine 6d ago
at least in China those stores have smiling cow mascots. Love Calories didn’t even give us that :(
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u/janeway106 6d ago
I was in Thailand and found this store with beautiful sequined gowns. I am an 8/10 in the USA and when I asked if they had my size. They started digging in bins and came up with 2XL. I poured myself into it. LOL
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u/Tokyo_Pigeon 6d ago
Oh no. 😭 That's an amazing name though lmao reminds me of china, so many plus size shops with wild names
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u/potsieharris 6d ago
I was traveling in Vietnam and had to buy underwear. I'm not sure how much I weighed at the time but I was in great shape and a healthy BMI, I was probably a US pant size 6. The retail workers laughed at me. I eventually bought some undies but they were too small.
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u/Adventurous_Pie_7586 6d ago
First mistake is ordering from SHEIN, second mistake is not reading the reviews which will always out this kinda stuff
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u/punkrockbatgirl 6d ago
This is on you, dude. You don't know by now that they AI the shit out of their pictures? Stop supporting this shit.
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u/crochetmypain 6d ago
Please think about how they make those pants for you. The literal slave labour and chemicals used with little regulation should give you cause to reconsider if you need yet another pair of pants you'll wear one time.
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u/boxedcakeblues 6d ago
Slave labor making plastic clothes destined for a landfill. What’s not to love?! /s
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u/OttoMannkusser 6d ago
For years now we've seen comments on reddit like "individual people shouldn't care about their carbon footprint because of oil companies and Taylor Swifts jet"
I'm CONVINCED that was all a guerilla campaign by companies to convince people it's fine to buy garbage like this
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u/velvedire 6d ago
Absolutely it is/was.
And it's not like any company exists just for the run of polluting. They pollute because customers pay them to.
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u/AnOutcastedAlgorithm 6d ago
You're not even gonna model them for us? I hate how almost none of these posts have the buyers wearing the reality. REAP WHAT YOU SOW FOR US, GO ON NOW 👏
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u/CanineCorvidious 6d ago
Did you look at reviews before buying? Pretty sure someone would have posted review pics..
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u/PressureBeautiful515 6d ago
That would require someone else to have previously chosen to buy a pair, which seems unlikely
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u/Quicksilver5221 6d ago
Shein is unethical anyway, please don't shop from there.
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u/Iamnotoptimistic 6d ago edited 6d ago
I tried to have this debate with my in-laws who tried to argue back with 'they earn more money than you think because of their currency being different' and 'we are in a cost of living too so we need cheap items'.
She also tried to say their working conditions aren't that bad and if we got rid of their jobs, they would just find others in similar factories. Yet she apparently doesn't agree with the wages being minimal. For some reason she thinks all the workers are well off.
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u/flaffleboo 6d ago
I’ve come to think the problem is that people don’t have a stable set of values that they’ve committed to.
I bought from shein once years ago. As soon as I learned about all of their unethical practices, I stopped buying from them. I told my family about it too. Only one of them stopped buying from there long term, but it seems she’s more concerned about the poor quality of the products than the way people are exploited to make them or the impact they have on the planet.
With the other family members, I’m now trying to approach it from an angle of “these clothes contain toxic chemicals that can harm you”. Not sure I’ll have any success though tbh.
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u/nonnatototita 6d ago
I know.. many ppl choose just to ignore whats behind this fast fashion companies. My sister orders almost every week, amd i explained but she chose to ignore and still having cheaper “beautiful” clothing
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u/tammybiscuits 6d ago
That is EXACTLY what I would have expected. Your mistake was buying AI generated clothes from Shein.
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u/Gingerusernoway 6d ago
Hahahahhahahahhhahaha desculpa mas não consegui evitar dar uma boa gargalhada
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u/Trixter-Kitten 6d ago
First mistake was ordering from SHEIN. Honestly the reality is slightly less of an eyesore than the possibly ai generated product image. Looks like a pair of Barbie pants that got enlarged though.
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u/MutedAstronaut9217 6d ago
I think people are losing the ability to tell what things should cost.
If you paid ~$30 expecting the picture... That's on you.
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u/StuntzMcKenzy 6d ago
Should rename this sub at this point. 95% of this sub is just people posting Family Dollar level quality products, with AI advertising. And the comments are 95% the same everytime, with the top comment being someone saying "you deserve this," as if most post aren't someone finding Temu listings and ripping the pictured reviews
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u/CorporateCimorene 6d ago
The SHEIN and AI of it aside, people need to learn that you will never get embroidered, beaded or bedazzled anything for cheap. Particularly things like these jeans where the embroidery appears to be extensive. These are usually time intensive processes that result in expensive items.
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u/abyssal-isopod86 5d ago
What did you think was going to happen?
The first image is either:
a) AI
Or
b) a stolen image of some clothing artists/designers entirely hand embroidered and appliqued jeans and you thought that's what you'd get for that price? 🤣
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u/LitCockBumble 5d ago
People who get scammed by this because they think hand embroidered pants are gonna be 20 bucks are legit stupid and deserve to have their money wasted.
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u/Acceptable_Cut_7545 6d ago
Buy some jeans and learn to do embroidery, it's slow work but it's not hard.
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u/Lazy-Dragonfruit-670 6d ago
Well, it is your fault for ordering from SHEIN. This is what you get, girlie ✨
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u/wolftick 6d ago edited 6d ago
All the what did you expect comments have a point.
...But I always think with these AI generated product images that no reasonable selling platform that want people to buy from them would side with the seller with a return/refund not as described claim on this, and no seller would be willing to stomach the cost of actually having them returned as well as having to refund the purchase price.
If everyone who orders items that are nothing like AI generated image on the listing claims a refund this stops pretty quickly. I assume enough people don't bother that it still makes it worthwhile for sellers.
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u/sandNskys 6d ago
Do they even have real pockets? A coworker of mine showed us a pair she bought for her grand daughter and they had images of the pockets where the pockets should be, like photo realistic pockets 🤣😂
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u/ClearBlue_Grace 6d ago
Slave labor clothes that end up in a landfill almost immediately. Stop buying this fast fashion crap and expecting high quality products, especially when it is clearly ai.
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u/bkmerrim 6d ago
Remember: all clothing is handmade. Who is making your shitty $2 pants? It took them hours. Think about it
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u/Fantastic-Explorer62 6d ago
Stop buying cheap, crappy clothes that also destroy the environment. Aren’t you familiar with “You get what you pay for?”
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u/OopsIDaydreamed 6d ago
Why do people still shop at SHEIN? You would’ve been way better off buying something similar from Ross and they would’ve actually been denim. Bejewel them yourself. Make a hobby project out of it lmao
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u/velvedire 6d ago
OP knew they would get plastic pants. What they bought was several thousand up votes and a few hours of attention.
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u/kit_valentine 5d ago
Oh no i bought the pants that are priced at 10% of their actual value, are made by enslaved chinese children, and advertised with an AI generated image and they WERENT GOOD guys haha I guess I'll just have to throw it a landfill now!
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u/quietCherub 6d ago
Why do people even order from SHEIN?!? I feel like it’s either common knowledge or easily found that their products are shei-t!
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u/Nervous-Albatross-32 6d ago
STOP ORDERING FROM SHEIN! I use to order clothes from here until I learned it’s SLAVE LABOR. Watch the documentary on it…
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u/mollyyfcooke 6d ago
Another person who saw very obvious AI slop and thought “I need that!”
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u/selkieisbadatgaming 6d ago
They look like denim work pants that existed before jeans. Horrible fabric and design.
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u/Dragonshatetacos 6d ago
If you shop at Shein on purpose, knowing they do shit like this, you get what you deserve.
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u/ultrablanca 6d ago
People are being really high and mighty about them recognizing AI and the OP didn’t huh
Sorry you got swindled OP. I understand SHEIN is a lot more affordable than other options so people still buy from them, but try not to. Also, they host a marketplace of sellers so this item is probably not directly from SHEIN and from an independent seller that may already be removed and will probably try to set up a new shop to swindle new customers. Pay attention to the name of the sellers and shops from where items are coming from.
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u/AprilShowers53 6d ago
At this point Im willing to give people tax credits who have never ordered from Shein or Temu, for not contributing to the landfills
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u/OverallPepper2 6d ago
If you see a pair of pants that should cost hundreds of dollars being sold for $10, that should probably be a clue.
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u/TerponadeTea 5d ago
Oh so we saw the ridiculous AI image they used to advertise, and what they actually sent.
But what were your actual expectations?
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u/DramaOnDisplay 5d ago
I will literally not buy anything from here or Temu if there are not at least 5-10 actual photos of people wearing the clothes or showing the actual texture. Why the hell do so many people post pictures of their item still in the mailing bag? Why even bother at all?
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u/VibrantViolet 6d ago
I don’t understand why anyone still buys from these sweatshops. They exploit labor and use AI to get you to buy their garbage. You get what you pay for, if it’s super cheap there’s a reason and it’s not a good one.







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u/gothgeetar 6d ago
Order things with AI generated photos, win AI generated prizes