In September 2014 I attended a wedding, one of the other guests was wearing this absolutely stunning dress - she looked like a Greek goddess. I immediately went over to her to compliment the dress and ask where she got it from, she told me it was from Coast. It took me a while as she'd bought it a while ago and Coast no longer had it but I finally found it and I bought it on eBay on the 26th of September 2014. Coast only go up to size 18 and at the time I was a size 22, thing is even though I've been a size 18, 16 and now 14 - that bloody dress never fitted me because of the size of my bust.

Well, I've lost over a stone in the last month and on a whim I thought I'd dig out that dress today and whaddya you know - it fits like a glove! A few minutes ago I snipped off the label with great pleasure because finally I have no plans to sell it anymore and it is currently in the washing machine. It is now officially MY DRESS - the label is removed and I can't wait until I have an event fancy enough to wear it to!

Ten years. I can't tell you how many damn times I've tried this dress on on the past decade, despairing that it would never fit. But it does. The day has come. I'm so happy!

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