Not everything shown in an online listing turns out to be what you get. Actress Melissa Joan Hart found that out the hard way when a holiday outfit she ordered online arrived nothing like the item pictured.
She’d thought she was buying a Christmas-appropriate dress, but the garment that showed up differed significantly from her expectations. The Sabrina the Teenage Witch alum shared the awkward outcome with her followers on social media, posting photos of the two versions side by side.
In her post she complained about the online shopping experience, saying the whole thing was disappointing and that she’d decided to embrace a “fancy ugly sweater” vibe instead. The item displayed on the retailer’s site appeared snug and flattering on the model; the piece Hart received, by contrast, was boxy and made from a different fabric.
Responses to her post were quick and full of people trading their own tales of online-shopping letdowns. One commenter joked they never buy items where the model’s head is cropped out, while another suggested the listing may have been digitally enhanced to make the product look better than it actually is.
A few followers poked fun at the $35 price tag, with one saying Hart probably has no business shopping on discount sites, and another quipped that she’d essentially purchased an AI-enhanced dress and shouldn’t have been surprised by the results.
Hart shared the same pictures and remarks on Instagram, noting that the sweater looked better in photos than it did in person. That post drew more remarks: some guessed she’d ordered from fast-fashion apps like Temu, others apologized while finding the situation amusing, and several referenced her past TV work — including fans who joked that her Clarissa character didn’t, in fact, explain everything, because this was clearly an example of AI trickery.
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