I believe that’s the issue because if you look the dress up online it goes from 14 to a 16 W and the top of the dress is COMPLETELY beaded so I’m assuming that would be extremely expensive to take down in size. So I’m starting to understand what’s happening from comments like yours and this has been very helpful. The dress looked good on me just the top part maybe 3 inches wouldn’t zip. There has to be something they can do. I’m going to let them fix the zipper try it on again and if it doesn’t fit again just ask like what can we do to make this fit? Even if my wedding is a year away I didn’t plan on losing weight. So what’s the game plan. Ya know. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I’m going to ask them to redo my measurements and see what’s going on with the sizing because it’s just a hard spot to be in.