💬 Ordered 3 shirts online for a wedding and one felt like a plastic bag

My cousin's wedding was 10 days away and I had nothing to wear. So I ordered online. 3 shirts, 2 of them in cream, 1 in light grey. All from the same site, all 4 stars. The photos looked good. Soft, a bit of a shine, nice collar. The reviews said true to size. The grey one arrived in 3 days. I opened the packet and I heard it before I felt it. It crackled. Like a bag of chips. I put my hand on it and it felt slippery and hot. I wore it for 5 minutes and my neck was already sweating. In February. Cream one was fine, the other cream one was 2 sizes too big, even though I picked medium. That's 1 good shirt out of 3 and a refund process that took 9 days to complete. On day 6 I gave up and went to Sultan Bazaar myself. Took 40 minutes. The shopkeeper pulled out a shirt, rubbed the cloth between his fingers, and said, this is cotton. I rubbed it too. It was cotton. I paid 700 and tried it on right there in the shop. It fit, and I didn't have to wait for a courier who calls only once and then disappears. Groceries online is fine by me. Vegetables arrive in better shape than I choose myself. But cloth is something I need to touch. My fingers know before my eyes do. I still own the grey shirt. It's my painting shirt now, which seems a fair job. Next wedding I'll go to the shop first and skip the 4 star reviews completely.

The crackle when you open the packet is the sign. I returned a shirt last year that felt exactly like a raincoat. Now I only order from a shop where I have touched the fabric, or where the seller shows the label with the cloth percentage. Did the cream ones fit for the wedding in the end? A plastic shirt in February is hard to forgive.

The shopkeeper rubbing the cloth between his fingers is how it should be done. They can tell in 2 seconds. My last online shirt said cotton blend, and it turned out to be mostly something else entirely. I still order groceries by app, but I check the onions every single time. Half of them arrive bruised. Sultan Bazaar for clothes, my phone for rice. That's about the balance I've settled into.