So I just returned from my amazing trip to China and I wanted to share the story of how I got my Chinese qipao dress made. It was a darky and stormy night in Shanghai, just kidding, actually it was a beautiful and airy night in Shanghai and Whitney and I were strolling down the streets of the French Concession area when we stumbled on row of traditional Chinese qipao dress shops. After hearing about how amazing Whitney's customized qipao dress was that she had made in Beijing I had really wanted one and now, here in Shanghai with only 3 days to go before I left, fate brought me to this street--yes life was was good!
So we choose this one store to go in and the rest was history...I choose the red and gold traditional print after seriously considering this print with the geishias (which are Japanese by the way). I communicated in English and my dress makers in Chinese but somehow all this worked as I explained to them that I just wanted the frog clips at the top of the dress and also wanted it to fall just below my knees.
I went in the next day to get my fitting so that everything was perfecto and I was lucky enough to have my friend Sunny with me, who is Chinese and could assist me with the language barrier. Overall I was very impressed about the workmanship of the dress and during the fitting was pretty amazing how they could turn this dress around so quickly. Geesh this would be incredible to have a dress-maker like this in states, can you imagine how much fun it would be do pick out your own fabrics and have everything customized to your body? Oh well I guess I will have to be rich and famous to have this here but alas I will have always have China to fall back on.
The final result, an amazing customized qipao dress, now I have to figure out where to wear this thing? LOL!
Smooches,
Madame K
