Let me preface by saying that I love Dwell Studio. Always have, even before they were doing much of anything except to the trade. I almost interned with them, and have been a huge fan of what they do.These shams are pretty much what they look like in the photo. The fabric is super soft, high-grade real cotton. No synthetic blends, which is great. The color is exactly how it looks, and it what I wanted to pop against my walls and bedding.
However, for the price, almost $90 for the pair, I would have thought they'd put some type of closure on the back or some type of top stitch. Anything to warrant the price. The fact is that these are not a super fancy design, and while the cotton is soft and nice, I know (from working as a textile designer and fabric director in the fashion & home industries) that there is no cotton in the world that costs this much per yard. Even Sea Island Cotton, one of the most expensive and highest grade cottons on the market, retails for about $30/yard. These shams use less than a yard of fabric each. And a stripe is not that labor intensive to design, so I can't figure out why these the price of these shams is completely inflated.
I'm not returning them, because I like everything else about them. But I really wish I did not have to put my own hours of work sewing on buttons and making button holes so that they stay closed. $90 should have certainly covered the cost of some buttons.
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