I sew dresses for Little Dresses for Africa and also help out sizing and repacking for shipment and you would not believe the poor workmanship that comes in and the maker called a dress. We are thankful for every donation we get. A small group of us does repair work to make the dresses wearable, but there are some dresses we can do nothing but pitch. It is truly sad to think someone would think that the dress we had to pitch was fit for someone to wear. Our motto now is if you wouldn't put it on your daughter or granddaughter it doesn't go to Africa. And keeping in mind that we are thankful for every donation we get we send the dresses that are well made but down right ugly because of color combinations or decorations on the dress, and once in a while a just down right ugly piece of fabric.
Directions for making the dresses and some quality suggestions are available, but sometimes not followed. And by far there are way more useable dresses than not, just have to be thankful for the donations and move on.