A Manhattan woman is suing Zara USA after finding a dead rat sewn inside her dress.
Carly Fiesel, 24, of Midtown, bought the $40 Turkish-made dress from Zara USA’s Greenwich, Connecticut location in July. But soon after purchase, she discovered the rat.
I saw the little leg that was coming out of the seam that I had touched, which was really horrifying. I froze I was paralyzed with fear. The discovery occurred while she was wearing the black scooped-neck dress for the first time at the talent agency where she works.
A “disturbingly pungent odor” predated the find. As she walked around, I felt something brushing up against my leg and thought it was a string from the seam of the dress, Fiesel stated. When I went to pull at it, it didnt feel like a string.
I then felt the hem of the dress and it felt like there was some sort of sensor … I turned up the seam of the dress and saw it was not a sensor and that it was a mouse.”Fiesel later developed a rash that was diagnosed as “rodent-born disease.”
As a result, she is suing Zara USA for unspecified damages. Shes been a wreck ever since, said Adam Deutsch, Fiesels attorney. “She should be compensated for what she went through.”
