Atypical shopping day & outfit for wedding

[shootingstar]

What do you think about including a small memento of your sister in your outfit? Maybe a bit of jewelry or something in her favorite color, or some other little thing so you can bring a thought of her with you for the day?

It's a lovely idea....

Rather interesting this discussion on national costume. I don't have a "costume". It's real "fashion", real life wear. It's a real top meant to wear at work or for a function...actually that is abit dressy with a high Mandarin collar in plain black linen but edged with bright red and orange floral borders all the way around along the hem, up the button front with asymmetrical front closing, frog closings, and fabric is part of the collar. I actually have only worn it ...once. I would call it a nouveau fusion Asian design --a contemporary interpretation of Chinese tops. Yes, I did buy it from Chinatown.

The thing is to me...it feels a bit "corny" when I wear it with my family. Yes, I know my roots, blah, blah...but still...

I do have a pink satin traditional Chinese high collar dress that was my mother's with some embroidery on colour, by side dress leg slit. I cannot fit the dress since she was naturally bigger boned than me, as a young woman. She wore it for special occasions during first few years after she immigrated here. I keep it only as a heirloom, I guess.

And not surprisingly 2 of my sisters did wear cheongsam, 1 had one made as her wedding gown (in crème white), and the other sis, wore a red one as her going away dress, post wedding gown.