"Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson" <ken_nicolson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> To cut a long story short, I told her to take it back to the shop she
> bought it and request they fix it (a standard obligation for shops
> under UK law, for instance) but she said something about how they'd
> tell her she should have checked properly before buying, etc, etc.

Although I am not sure of what the law says, I am pretty sure you have a
right to return defective merchandise. If the dress were bought used, it
might be another story. I suspect your wife's reticence to be based more on
a personal aversion to confrontations of this sort than what the law
actually says.

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Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom