03 August 2008

My Chinese Dress

I’ve been meaning to buy a qi pao or Chinese dress for a while now. I’ve been looking around at different silks, and until today I hadn’t found exactly what I was looking for.

I found a black silk with subtle red dragons on it. The effect is maroon.

The dressmaker fitted me for the dress. She was taking measurements and I was standing in my underwear in front of a mirror with several Chinese women watching. And then an anorexic Chinese girl came in to get fitted too.

Beside her, I felt fat but good about it.

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