Sunday, May 18, 2008

the maxi obsession continues...

just yesterday, doo booked out and i bugged him to go down to haji lane with me :) i didn't remember that it literally was such a small lane, but anyway the interior of the shops *the decor still looks as cool as it was the last time i went down with jiahui (which i think was something like.. last year?!?!).

anyway, doo felt that the houses were going to collapse any moment. when we opened the doors of one of the shops, you could hear creaks that weren't coming from the door itself, but from the walls haha. and it so happened that there was a catch line on the front page of the newpaper which quoted a father from one of the quake-stricken parts of China as saying sth like this: "quake didn't kill my daughter. school did". so i suppose if it ever happens in haji, it'll be "quake didn't kill my gf. the shop did". :X but thankfully, sg's in a quake-free zone, though we should never take this safety forgranted. we still are able to feel tremors when other countries closeby experience a quake, so we'll never know when it'll be serious enough to actually give us a real shake, though i'm not saying we should be worrying day and night about this as well.

speaking of quakes.. i hardly dare to read the news of all the devastation from the quake + cyclone that's going on. i want to donate clothes, but there's word going round that the collection-of-clothing place at peninsula plaza's received a response that's so overwhelming that they had to stop accepting clothing (w00t?).

back to haji.. i came across this shop with a pair of satin red pumps that caught my eye. while i was wondering if that's the only piece left.. my eyes wandered and caught sight of an entire glass shelf of shoes. :X one of which was a quirky twist to aladdin-style shoes. it was a flat pair, mary-jane style with a single, silver strap that goes from thick-to-thin, left-to-right. it's one that's looks as though it is made of soft metallic cracked leather, and remains very sturdy despite the outershell feel of softness. i checked its size and woohoo, it's a 39! i tried it on (for some reason it looked smaller than a 39) and i realised it's actually a little too big, but the maryjane strap saves the day! i immediately went to the counter and reserved it before others came into the shop heheh :X i told the staff i wanted it without finding out the price first, so i'm glad it didn't cost me a bomb. the most special thing i find about these shoes is its shape. while it is entirely plain from toe to heel, (i don't suppose a metallic-look under light would count), big-feet people like me can never wear pointy toes (actually can, i tried it on at bugis the other day but they didn't look good enough to impress me) and so this one, has the point to the side, where your biggest toe is. so it's sorta like the shoe follows the shape of our toes (from tallest to shortest). SO CUTE! however, when i reached home and re-modelled it, i realised the point isn't obvious when worn and viewed from opposite perspective, and instead makes my feet look bigger than they already are (the usual thing to expect when buying pointy shit for big feet), and all of a sudden its too plain for my liking with no specific detail. this has got to be the plainest pair of shoes i've ever purchased! while it seems that i was going to write this off as an impulse buy, i decided its a keeper. who knows when i'm going to need green shoes? or actually, i simply love the shade of green so much that i want to keep it. furthermore, it's comfy and spacious (mayb that explains why it makes my feet look big!) and one day, perhaps i'll have shoes of every colour (except for a couple of disliked ones). while green has never been on my list, yellow has always been and i am still looking out for a nice yellow pair :( some yellow ones look so cheap, too plain and god knows what.

ahh another good find at haji lane was a maxi dress. because it's made of raw cotton, i'd say it is a very casual floral dress - nothing like the foley & corrina inspired one from F21 which i already have. however, i am looking for something casual because i can't bear to wear that silk one out :X i'm only hesitating because one of the dresses i spotted at the shop was selling online at $33.. and it retails for $50 at the shop. thus i'm worried i'll see online shops sprouting up with maxi dress collections and with the same design popping up. they've only got 3 pcs for that design in the shop.. so that's not too bad (in terms of the likelihood of me seeing someone wearing the same thing, and chances of it going OOS by Tuesday). i'm not exactly a fan of florals, because i think sometimes they look ah-ma when unmodelled, but i seem to have a different view of that when florals are placed on a white/cream/black base. take my hurs suitcase for example (i LOVE it!!!).

well anyway. i ended up getting the raw cotton maxi with hotpink and white large florals + green pointy leaves at a hefty price (hefty because i saw it selling for cheaps somewhere else) but i guess it's always safer to pay more for something you can try on, especially something with prints. because if you get a dress with prints that happen to be stitched at positions where you least want them to be, it's horrid. my bro said it looks mature.. (which brings me back to my initial thought of it being AH MA) but i think that with my current short fringe hair, it balances out to make me look my age. PLUS.. i've been looking for a really casual maxi anyway, so this fits my description (except that this one turned out to be black, so not spring, but the garden florals save the day). there were silky satin ones as well, but what's the point of getting a casual spring-summer dress that's in the same material as a formal one? if one does, one might as well wear an evening gown out. why bother about specially getting a maxi that's supposed to be casual enough to bring you from shopping to tea time and not wedding dinner time?

i have plans for more maxis. this is quite obvious, as the title of the post suggests. doo asked me why i'm following this 'trend' since i recognise it as a trend by telling him it's moving so slowly in ever-so-slow Singapore (in a fashion/retail sense) possibly due to height issues, and it's simply because i think it's fun to be decked out in something different from what i usually wear out, bearing in mind it feels somewhat different from wearing mini dresses, and i certainly think it's something that's less fuss, more oomph. =D muahahhaa.. the kinda thing i xoxo.
bee at 6:19 AM