Bah my friends, I'm in the middle of a baaad period (of the menstrual kind). My husband is coming to the rescue with the only remedy: Indian food on his way back from work. But it's 8:43 pm and I'm HUNGRY and he's been HELD UP at work and I can't possibly have any other food now that it has been promised to me. this is a disaster. this is a meltdown in the making.
Maybe I'd feel better if I could wear some fabulous clothes with embroideries, Mexican colors, flowers, dangling beaded jewelry, layers, aprons... Something from Aida Coronado for example.
Of course to wear this I would need to be twenty -four again, or sixty four. But not forty-four and bloated.
And if I were twenty-four again I'd get married in this dress.
... hmm, this only took my mind off INDIAN FOOD (chicken korma for me, extra spicy please) for a minute.
By the way, i'm also obsessing about a certain beautiful purse I saw on one of your blogs. It was felted I think, with embroidered flowers. I saw it, i blinked and it was gone. It was a snapshot taken in a street. Any idea?
Sadly there has never and now surely never will be a moment in my life where it would be sartorially appropriate for me to wear these gorgeous things. My body was not built for them. I will console myself with having been mistaken for a Mexican lass on more than many occasions. And satisfy myself with imagining you in your Mexican wedding dress. Yes! I think it could work!
Posted by: mlle paradis | January 09, 2010 at 10:56 PM
Thank you for sharing these clothes ... I'm in love with them :) Your blog is great! Peace.
Posted by: Erin | January 10, 2010 at 03:36 AM
I LOVE this and would wear it all.
Posted by: Noor | January 10, 2010 at 05:48 AM
Well, thanks a lot. I've been longing for Indian food & have to wait until next weekend & now don't think I can wait. (for the good stuff). GG & I send you greetings & hope you've had your "fix" by now (it's Sunday a.m. here)...
xoxo
Posted by: Susan | January 10, 2010 at 07:52 AM
Wonderful! But I don't think you need to be in your twenties to wear any of these beautiful clothes. It's just a matter of spirit.
Posted by: Angelina | January 10, 2010 at 09:24 AM
I love the bottom dress too.
Your poor tummy. I feel for you. My womb was "untimely ripped" (that's from Macbeth) 9 years ago. I have not regretted it, or grown a beard.
Posted by: Hazel | January 10, 2010 at 11:19 AM
Hazel: I cant wait for menopause. I hear it carries its own set of problems But menorrhagia has been no picnic.
Posted by: corine | January 10, 2010 at 11:28 AM
you'd look great in any of these lovelies!
Posted by: susan | January 11, 2010 at 08:36 AM
i just love the typcal mexican embroidery but you know what? from every region of Mexico is different all depends on the comunity for example: Oaxaca got like a thousands of different embroidery with their own particular designs and colors, and if you go to the north, the wixarika got another patern and they inspired on the desert and religion.. but i must to say, if i get married it would be with a dress like that!.. lovely photos!!
Posted by: Vebosh | January 11, 2010 at 06:23 PM
So did you get your Indian? I am scared to eat it over here...Hawaii is so not a mecca of the Indian culture. Unlike Sydney, where about half the population is Indian, and the other half is Greek or Lebanese. :p Getting good Indian there wasn't nearly such a scary proposition.
And I can't do the Mexican embroidery thing. I have been too scarred by my childhood hippie days, when all I wanted to be was a neon pink and green child of the Eighties. Luckily I got over THAT; but I still can't do that embroidery. :p
Posted by: muralimanohar | January 12, 2010 at 01:53 AM
Ohhh, I absolutely LOVE these :-)
Posted by: Krista | January 12, 2010 at 01:18 PM
Oh yes, I hear you. Just last weekend, I saw a dress like the yellow one here at an antique shop and fell in love with the embroidery but, alas, I'm not a lass of 20 anymore and the thought of looking like I'd dressed in a potato sack made me giggle and I (wisely) turned away from the dress.
Posted by: Mama Without Borders | January 13, 2010 at 02:43 AM
It s so beautiful, designs are always cute...
I wanna one...
fashionvisualistica.
Posted by: Martinamiau | January 17, 2010 at 05:19 PM
I love the design, vintage clothes is one of my favorite collections. thanks for the post.
-mikee
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