Decisions, decisions, decisions.
When going to parties with sisters, a wedding or just a gathering, you must have something nice to wear. Now, what is nice to you may not necessary be nice to the next person. You must also remember that fashion (as you "used" to know it) is no more. Fashion has taken on an entirely different meaning.
You can get a dress made. I have not had the fortune of finding a really good tailor here in Shihr but I have seen some really nice work (it just doesn't work for me). For an example: I purchased this purple satin with a purple/shimmery silver organza to go over it. The dress was so basic, atleast I thought - but when I tried the dress on I couldn't put my arms down. I felt like I was in a body cast. This comes on the heels of my Eid dress that went terribly wrong and made me look like a Line backer for the Eagles, never mind the missing sequence on the front of the dress that I just can't figure out what happened to it. So, I promised myself - no more tailored made dresses.
Ready made dresses are available and some are actually very beautiful. Ok - they can't hold a candle stick to the ones I have seen in Saudi but beautiful none the less. The ready made dresses can cost you a couple of dollars and I did mention before - you start thinking, spending and acting like a Yemeni after a while and you just can't see yourself spending large sums of money on a dress when the money can go to use in so many other places.
What I have noticed though is that a dress is revamp-able. What does that mean? Well, you can buy or have made three dresses and switch them up a bit. When that gets kind of old, you take the same dress back to the tailor and have him alter it to make it look like a different dress. Now you have three brand new dresses to wear to your next 6-9 parties, weddings or gatherings.
What is very common here in Shihr as well is after Asr, the sisters (who do not attend classes) visit one another. They get their kids all dressed up with big fluffly dresses, socks, and pretty barrettes and they get all dressed up as well, and they go out to visit one another. This seems to be their custom.
I wanted to share a few of the dresses I came across that I thought were quite interesting but you can judge for yourself.
With the right attitude and accessories, I think you can really make a statement with these dresses. Ok, I do think the mauve one (#3), the green and gold one to follow are really cute but the others are interesting and again I think it is about attitude and accessories, LOL.
