Do you know how it feels? Can you feel the agony.. the frustration.. the urge to strangle a tailor with her own measuring tape that is nestling inside my aching heart? Oh dear.. All I wanted for Hari Raya is to have a nice decent dress, a longer version of this…
And yet the cruel stubborn old witch tailor named Sally made me a longer version of this…
My dream dress turned out to be a cross of Master Yoda’s robe and my mother’s sliding door drapes. It is so gross! The sleeves are so huge I could hide ten rabbits inside them.
I don’t know what gave her the idea. I am pregnant in my tummy, lady! Why did you have to make the dress so huge around the sleeves and chest area too? I am having a human baby for goodness sake, I did not mate with a blue whale, okay! And where the hell did you get that design pattern? Its hideous!!!
Oh what did I do? Can somebody tell me what have I done to deserve this fashion curse from hell? Is it all the laundry that I make my husband do since the day I got pregnant and deserve to be resting a like a princess all day long? Is this some kind of punishment for forgetting my Azman’s birthday this year? What? What oh God? Why do I have to look like Master Yoda on Hari Raya? Whyyyyyyy?
The tailor that is responsible for my mental torture is an old Chinese lady. I should have known when I sent the material over to her for sewing that she is the world most obstinate person on the whole wide world. Her stubbornness was alarming and annoying but it was 2 weeks before Hari raya, I needed something to wear and no other tailor would take any orders anymore.
It took me so long to describe how I want my maternity dress to look like and I have to argue with her so desperately, I was almost begging her to please make my dress the way I want it.
She was so convince that I was gonna balloon up about twenty kilos in 2 weeks, and the fact that she is what? Almost sixty?! Didn’t help either. She just couldn’t believe that pregnant ladies these days are actually proud of their baby bumps and do not have a reason to hide their pregnant bodies in yards and yards of tasteless huge maternity robes.
Gosh I hate her!!
In fact she was even mocking me for wearing a T shirt when I came to her shop to pick my dress up. I could have slash out something nasty but of course I didn’t. Oh how I itched to tell her that YOU ARE AN OLD WOMAN!! PREGNANT WOMEN THESE DAYS DO NOT DRESS THEY WAY YOU DID BEFORE MERDEKA!
So I left the dress at her shop. I demand an alteration to make it smaller. Azman and I both could fit in that beautiful two tone Vietnamese silk gunny anyway. It’s such a waste, the material is expensive, Azman bought it when he went to Ho Chi Minh early this year… And it is ruined… I need to see a psychiatrist now…
beli yg ready made je kan senang ada banyak fesyen utk ibu mengandung ni..selamat hari raya maaf zahir batin..
errr…u do look like master yoda nowadays….ada la sikit resemblance hak hak hak
oh dear, i am so sorry to hear about the disastrous experience. I know how it feels to not get the dress you want during the most important festive season. Fear not. Why not hop over to Funky Mama at Plaza Damas? They have the most fabulous maternity dresses. I heard there’s another one at Bangsar Village but forgot the name of the shop.
di..di.. ksian kat hang..dulu baju kurung senget mase nak btunang (kalo aku tak silap la)..ni baju apentah plak.. sabo jela..aku pnah rase bende yang same..baju nikah aku..tailor tu buat ukuran dia..lagi best..bahu aku 15″ jadi 18″, dada aku 38″ jadik 48″!!!!!! macam nak gilo aku..dahla dua ari lg nak nikah baru dapat..nasib baik ade tailor lain tlg alter..last2 aku tak byr satu sen pon kat tailor jahanam tu..dahla kain aku rege 300++..oh sakit sungguh hatiku mengenang memori tu…sabaq di sabaq….
Diyana, my first reaction after reading ur predicament was rolling around in laughter! Ur so funny even when ur pissed off ! But dun get me wrong, i mmg simpati gler2 ngan u. Hope u can find a new dress ASAP. Btw raya thn ni kat mana? 🙂
Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to both u n azman 🙂
Kesian hang D…uhuhu. Awat hang tak habaq kat akak nak buat baju last minute? Tailor akak yang buat baju konvo hang tu still amik tempahan even one wk b4 raya…uhuhu. Kesian hang….anyway…it is still a funny event…ehehehe
Muah!! Muah!! Love u!!
alamak cian nyer! i know how you feel, dear.
anyways, i’m so happy with my seamstress, if you want to try her out next time you’re making a baju, let me know.
Sabaq babe sabaq. Hey at least think it this way, your baby is the chosen one. he shall be the one with the Force. He is the bearer of the Light Saber and in all the galaxies far far far away.
But then again, I say strangle the tailor!
kalau haku, aku dah silambam dah tailor tu. ketegaq nak mampuih!