There must be some sort of consequence to having a troll help you pick out so important a garment as a wedding dress. But what would it be? My imagination fails me, and I can't find any folktales on the subject, so I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Spent the day Monday with my extra cool friend Linda (see previous posts for more on that) hunting through Berkeley and Oakland for her wedding gown.
Our itinerary:
Patina on Solano Ave (really nice salesperson, wonderful eclectic selection of fashions with a good quality and a real Berkeley feel). They had this really cool green silk jacket/shirt (pictured) that Linda loved.
4th St to visit Molly B's (more casual than I recall), Anthropologie (ugh), and some other stores that were rather blah.
Then back to Oakland where we ate lunch, walked to this place I can't remember the name of that is on Piedmont Ave (they have a lot of Chinese silks, and they specialize in custom embroidery).
As our last stop, we drove to Soiree on College Ave. Which was closed, so we went across the street to Chic, the first store I have ever been to that sells t-shirts for $315.
Which was where Linda unexpectedly found her perfect outfit!! We were so excited!!! Really, we had planned this day as more of an initial exploration and idea-gathering jaunt than an actual earnest search. So finding the ONE was a truly unforeseen fortunate EVENT. And it definitely made up for the snooty saleswoman who wouldn't let us take a pic of Linda trying on things (which we had been doing all day with no problems at all).
The Dress:
By the designer Nataya, who is Uzbekistanian (originally, but now she lives in Rome) and specializes in vintage-style clothing, especially 20's and 30's styles. I don't know if Linda would want me to post a picture of the actual dress, so I will just say that 1) it is from the Fall 2005 collection and 2) it looks 20,000,000 times better on Linda than it does on the model.
3 comments:
That dress you posted looks awful on me! I'm glad you posted it, though, just to spite those snooty saleladies. Wow, you know a lot more about the dress I bought than I did! I didn't even know who the designer was. By the way, I ran into that cool saleslady from Patina on Solano Ave at the Farmers' Market today! She was wearing a great leopard skin coat. She was super excited that I found a dress. I couldn't have done it without you, Ais!!!
Thanks, Linda, I had a lot of fun shopping with you (normally I absolutely hate clothes shopping, but this is an exception). I'll be happy to sqitch out the pic if you want, no prob. That is so cool that you ran into the Patina saleslady, I really liked her.
By the way, I meant "switch," not "sqitch."
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