



A pearl coloured maxi dress listed in 100% polyester, machine washable, unlined, with a partial button closure, lace trim, adjustable straps and a slit at the hem, in a midweight poplin, made in China, at 210 dollars, together with a plainly stated note that it is semi-sheer and undergarments will be visible. There are no reviews and no fit votes, so there is no score to quote. At second cheapest in this series this is also among the most informative pages, which puts a relationship tracked throughout into its clearest form yet. The measurements here display something extreme, and understanding it requires nothing beyond asking where the opening stops. The reference is the Marisol Maxi Dress by ELCE in Pearl. Dongguan Bafinasa Garments Co., Ltd. develops comparable poplin dresses on OEM and ODM terms, from fabric selection and trim sourcing to retail or FBA ready packing. We publish this as a development reference and build your own version of it, and we do not supply the branded original or reproduce anyone else's label.
Key Features
- 100% polyester as stated, and machine washable as stated
- Partial button closure as stated, and this one phrase explains the whole chart. See the note below
- Midweight poplin as stated, which together with being unlined settles what usually has to be reasoned about
- Stated plainly as semi-sheer with undergarments visible, the third time this exact sentence has appeared
- Lace trim and adjustable straps as stated
- Machine washable as stated, which given what else is here is worth examining rather than merely welcoming
- Slit at the hem as stated
- Measurements published for size S, showing hip ease of eighteen inches. See the note below
Customisable Options
- Fabric: poplin to the reference, offered in cotton or polyester or a blend, since the same weave behaves quite differently across them
- Opacity: we would offer a lining option or a heavier weight rather than only stating the outcome
- Closure: partial button to the reference, with the number and placement of buttons specified
- Trim: lace to the reference, with the fibre named rather than left open
- Length from knee to ankle, weight options, lining options, size set, colour development, private label and care labelling
Specifications
| Style | Polyester poplin shift maxi dress |
| Reference | ELCE, Marisol Maxi Dress, style ELCF-WD6, manufacturer style MARISOL, colour Pearl |
| Composition | 100% polyester as stated. See the note below |
| Fabric | Midweight poplin as stated. See the note below |
| Opacity | Stated as semi-sheer fabric with undergarments visible, on the listing itself. See the note below |
| Closure | Partial button closure as stated. See the note below, since this explains the measurements |
| Straps | Adjustable straps as stated |
| Trim | Lace trim as stated. See the note below |
| Detail | Slit at the hem as stated |
| Lining | Unlined as stated |
| Care | Machine washable as stated. See the note below |
| Sizes Published | XS, S, M and L |
| Measurements Published | S: bust 32 in, waist 38 in, hips 54 in, length 50 in. See the note below |
| Chart Note | The bust sits just below the model while waist and hips sit far above her. See the note below |
| Coverage | Only size S has figures. XS, M and L are blank |
| Model | 182 cm, bust 86 cm, waist 62 cm, hips 89 cm, wearing size S |
| Production | Made in China as stated |
| Reference Retail | 210 USD, quoted to show the price band this sits in, not as our price |
| Customer Reviews | None on the reference listing, so we quote no score |
| Best Seller Badge | Rank 84 in the retailer's shift dress list |
| Categories | Filed by the retailer under white dresses and tank dresses, while the badge records it under shift |
| Occasion | Summer, holidays, warm weather, resort, daytime |
| MOQ | 100 pcs per style per colourway, mixed sizes and colourways accepted |
| Sampling | 7-10 days after tech pack or reference sample confirmation |
| Bulk Lead Time | 20-30 days after sample approval and deposit |
| Service | OEM / ODM / private label, poplin sourcing, lace trim matching, retail or FBA ready packing |
Size Chart
| Size | Bust | Waist | Hips | Length | Source | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | 32 | in | 38 | in | 54 | in | 50 | in / | 127 | cm | As published | ||||||
| XS | 31 | in / | 79 | cm | 24 | in / | 61 | cm | 34 | in / | 86 | cm | 127 | cm / | 50 | in | Our proposal |
| S | 33 | in / | 84 | cm | 26 | in / | 66 | cm | 36 | in / | 91 | cm | 129 | cm / | 50.8 | in | Our proposal |
| M | 35 | in / | 89 | cm | 28 | in / | 71 | cm | 38 | in / | 97 | cm | 131 | cm / | 51.6 | in | Our proposal |
| L | 37 | in / | 94 | cm | 30 | in / | 76 | cm | 40 | in / | 102 | cm | 133 | cm / | 52.4 | in | Our proposal |
The published size S gives bust 32 in, waist 38 in, hips 54 in and length 50 in against a model at roughly 34, 23 and 36. Waist and hips sit fifteen and eighteen inches above her, and one stated phrase accounts for that entirely.
Occasions and Styling
Suits summer, holidays, warm weather, resort and daytime. Polyester poplin dries fast and resists creasing, which suits travel, and what is worn underneath is part of the look rather than hidden from it, since the listing says so.
Production and Quality Control
There are no reviews and no fit votes on this listing, so we quote no score. At second cheapest in this series this is among the most informative pages examined, which puts a relationship tracked throughout into its clearest form. The measurements are extreme, and understanding them needs nothing beyond asking where the opening stops.
Fifty four inches of hip, and one phrase doing all of it, and that is the first thing. Published figures are bust thirty two, waist thirty eight, hips fifty four against a model at approximately thirty four, twenty three, thirty six. So the bust sits about two inches below her, which is ordinary enough, while waist is fifteen above and hips eighteen, and eighteen inches of ease at the hip is roughly twice anything else encountered anywhere here. Read as a shape this makes no sense at all. Nothing consulted across hundreds of garments has described a silhouette with modest negative ease above and vast positive ease below, and there is no such silhouette, because there is no body it would suit. The explanation is one phrase, and it is the most valuable thing on the page. The closure is stated as partial. Partial means the buttons start somewhere and stop somewhere, so there is an opening at the top which then ends, and below that ending point this garment has no opening at all. Everything from there down has to be got over the body by travelling up past the hips, and therefore has to be big enough to do so. So these numbers are not describing shape. They are describing where the opening stops. This series reached exactly this reading very recently on another garment, and noted there the corrected general rule, which is that what governs how a garment goes on is not whether there is a fastening but where an opening ends, since below that point the body still has to be got through. That garment had buttons stopping at the neck and showed the same shape of result, though nothing like this magnitude. Stating it across two cases now gives the general lesson in full: negative ease appears where a garment has some means of dealing with it, since here the buttons and the adjustable straps both belong above that stopping point, and positive ease appears where it has none, since nothing below does anything except sit there while the body passes through. Reading where each of those belongs tells you which part of a garment is carrying structural work and which is simply paying for access. There is one further confirmation available, and it is pleasing because it is independent. The badge records this under shift dresses, which describes a straight unbelted shape hanging from the shoulders rather than following the waist, so generous ease through the middle is not merely explained away here, it is the design. Two unrelated sources, one a stated word about fastening and one a stated word about silhouette, arriving at the same reading of otherwise baffling numbers.
Poplin made of polyester, and why that third question matters more than expected, and that is the second thing. This is stated as midweight poplin, and this series has established rather firmly how much those two words do and do not carry. Comparing two cotton poplin garments recently settled that the construction name does not reassure while the weight word does, on the grounds that one describes how yarns are arranged and only the other says how much material is present, with quantity deciding most practical questions. That stands, and there is a further step now available which matters more. This poplin is polyester. Poplin describes an arrangement in which fine warp threads cross a much thicker weft, producing the characteristic fine horizontal rib, and nothing in that description says what any of it is made from. Cotton poplin and polyester poplin share the arrangement and almost nothing else. Cotton poplin shrinks, creases readily in wear, feels cool against skin, and absorbs moisture into the fibre. Polyester poplin barely shrinks, resists creasing strongly, dries quickly, and moves moisture along its surface rather than absorbing it. Those are not variations on one behaviour, and several of them are opposites. So this page gives arrangement, weight and material, which is more than nearly any other does, and all three were needed, because taking any two would have produced the wrong expectation. Set against that, the page also states plainly that it is semi-sheer with undergarments visible. This series has met this exact wording three times across three unrelated makers, having noted each time that the calibrated word rather than a binary is what makes the sentence useful, since a degree answers how careful to be and that decides what can be worn underneath. Three further things point the same way here: no lining, a colour described as pearl which is toward the palest end of anything met, and this stated sentence. What makes this instance interesting rather than repetitive is the tension with the weight. Midweight poplin is normally chosen precisely because it holds its own, and this series noted the same tension recently where a cloth name associated with substance sat beside a warning about sheerness. Reading several facts together rather than picking one, which this series has maintained throughout, says a customer should plan for this reading sheer, while noting that how sheer now depends almost entirely on the gram weight, which is the one thing here given as a word rather than a number. Midweight is carrying an enormous amount of work on this page and it is carrying it approximately.
Machine washable and what sits around it, plus the strongest price comparison yet, and that is the third thing. The instruction is machine washable, which given polyester is defensible, since polyester is dimensionally stable, barely absorbs water and dries quickly. It is nonetheless worth asking what sits around it, because this series has argued repeatedly that an instruction is set by the most vulnerable component rather than the dominant fibre. There are three candidates here and none is polyester. Lace trim is an open thread structure held in shape by its own geometry rather than by warp and weft locked together, so agitation lets it catch on things including itself, and this series has noted before that distortion of that kind does not recover. Adjustable strap hardware carries surface treatments which can oxidise, and this series has noted that such change is not reversible. And the hem has a slit, so there is an unfinished edge below which opens under movement and takes the most wear. None of those individually overturns the instruction, and it should be said plainly that this is among the more reasonable pages examined, carrying nine descriptive lines where most carry four. The interest is narrower: no other treatment was considered and nothing said what happens afterwards, and this series has found that gap repeatedly, most recently where a construction was most at risk after washing rather than during it. Now the comparison, which is the strongest available anywhere here. This is the second cheapest garment examined in this entire series, and it is simultaneously among the most informative, carrying more descriptive lines than garments costing ten times as much. This series has been tracking the relationship between price and disclosure since early on, having noted repeatedly that these do not move together, having recently compared three pages sharing one structure across wildly different prices, and having found one garment where twenty five fit votes described exactly what the absence of a size chart cost. Nothing has made the point as cleanly as this pair does. Another page examined within this same stretch of work costs almost thirteen times this and states a fibre and a country and nothing else. This states its fibre, its cloth, its weight, its closure, its trim, its straps, its sheerness, its measurements, and how to wash it. So providing this information plainly does not cost anything approaching the difference between those two prices, which removes rather decisively the suggestion that silence here reflects constraint. What remains worth saying about these numbers is the usual limitation, though here it bites harder. Only size S is measured, so three of four sizes are left to be guessed, and a garment showing eighteen inches of hip ease is precisely one where guessing goes wrong, since there is no ordinary range to guess within. Every bulk shipment gets a measurement report against your approved chart.
Optional upgrades include offering this in cotton or blends as well as polyester, since the same weave across different materials shares almost no practical behaviour and customers reasonably expect cotton from this cloth name, publishing measurements for XS, M and L, since one of four repeats throughout and eighteen inches of hip ease is not something anybody should guess at, offering a lining option or a heavier weight rather than only stating that this reads sheer, since the warning is useful but leaves nothing to act on, specifying how many buttons and where they stop, since that single detail explains the entire size chart and nothing currently says it, giving the weight as a number rather than an approximate word given how much depends on it here, naming the lace fibre rather than leaving one of several possibilities open, keeping the calibrated opacity wording since a degree answers what a binary cannot, length options rather than fifty inches alone, colour development, private label, hangtag and care labelling.
Pre-production sample approval, in-line inspection during cutting and sewing, and a final AQL inspection before packing, with measurement reports and photos shared before shipment.
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