Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Fashion Focus





















Shall I ...

... go all girlie in silver Christmas tree earrings, flowery sundress, and Audrey Hepburnesque red shoes?
... defy all sartorial logic in an unseasonal White lace kebaya-inspired top, a black latex singlet, black skinnies I got from the Bercham market and red shoes?
...or channel Katy Perry in RM3 Esprit factory overrun shorts, black Pack Promod singlet & RM10 Thailand black knit top

Ah. Which girl isn't clothes mad?





















Mixing and matching is more than just riding the residual buzz of retail therapy; it's the whole theatricality of the act, like orchestrating my own boutique theatre production.

I love the heightened drama as I clack out of the house in my three-inch heels; the contagious playfulness that colours my mood when I flounce out in my riotous bohemian skirt; garments are not just something to shield me from cold or immodesty, don't you see?

When I was a kid, I practically gobbled up fashion magazines.

Many an afternoon was spent, bent over the fashion pages, while my fingers lovingly traced the clean lines of a box-like shift while the mind marvelled at the fluidity of jersey wrap dresses.

So much so, I became extraordinarily well acquainted with fashion parlance.

I could recite from memory the subtle differences between silk brocade and silk jacquard.

I could reel off the entire spectrum of hues (crimson, fuschia, magenta, vermillion, scarlet ....) with such authority my science teaccher would surely beam with pride.

I was, and still am, a clothes fiend to a T (... or should it be T-shirt? :))

Ergo, what assignment could be more fun than traipsing through the yummiest fashion boutiques ever invented? :)

3 comments:

Ellen Whyte said...

OK, next time I need to go out somewhere I'm going to ask you what I should wear!

Michelle Chin said...

I read your article today. Well written. Like it how you wrote about apam balik.

You know, I don't really know what apam balik is... Hehe. I only know of its Chinese name ( Tai Kow Mein )

Alexandra Wong said...

Ellen: Next time we go out, it's to a boutique, yar? :)

Michelle: Thanks Michelle :) I was never a big fan of apam balik until I stumbled upon this guy either. His apams are truly to die for! Am already drooling in anticipation even though it's two whole days before my next trip home to Ipoh, yay!

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