I was hustled by Queen Shaped
I wanted to support Queen Shaped. Their origin story — two plus size women building a store where your size always exists — is exactly the kind of brand I want to spend money with. Unfortunately, my experience was the opposite of what they promise.
I ordered a dress in 3X. It arrived in a bag with the size sticker cut off. When I tried it on, it was clearly sized for a much smaller body — not a 3X by any measure.
When I contacted them for a refund, I was given a return address in Jinhua, Zhejiang, China — with the condition that I cover international shipping costs and return the item within 30 days of receipt. By the time I received their response, I was two weeks into that window with no realistic way to meet the deadline or absorb the shipping cost. Their resolution: a 15% refund.
For a $0 error on my part — receiving the wrong item entirely — 15% is not a resolution.
I also noticed that when I found them through Instagram, they were advertising a sitewide 70% off sale because they were "moving warehouses." Their site now runs the same 70% off sale, this time framed as a celebration of America's 250th birthday. The discount is permanent. The reason changes.
I genuinely wanted this brand to be what it says it is. But the gap between their story and their practices — the mislabeled product, the inaccessible return process, the rotating justifications for a permanent sale — makes it hard to recommend them to anyone, and especially to the plus size women they say they're building for.








