How many meters?

Sue and I were so excited! Finally, we got time to go to the tailor. She wants to turn her French lace into DVF like wrapped dress, and I wanna turn the sari fabric into a cheongsam inspired dress.

When my mother in law to be gave me the fabric, she told me it is enough to make a dress with train. I think she did mention its 4 meters.

Alright! Isn’t it good or what! What is a bride without wearing a dress with train?

Sue is an expert in fabric, when I told her it should be 4 meters she said it’s enough to make a long dress with short train.

So we were so gungho and went to see Faiz the tailor.

Guess what?

It was only 2 meters.

Sue and I looked at each other.

Laughed!!!!!

My mother in law to be is great in her own way. She has my respect to certain extend.

I already had a crisis with the sister in law to be; now, I got to raise hell with my mother in law to be too?

Oh… isn’t life grand?

Anyway, I didn’t turn into a monster. I stood there cracking my head for at least 10 minutes while Sue browsing through the collection of cheap beautiful gown. They were having clearance.

I have enough fabric for a short cheongsam.

I don’t want a short cheongsam.

What choice do I have?

Tailor made a sketch and told me her idea.

But, I don’t want an ordinary cheongsam!!!! I want a one shoulder cheongsam!!!!!

This is really a WTF moment.

When I was just about to give up on making a dress, since I already booked a dress in Wonder Momo, it’s a Laundry by Shelli Segal, a lemon yellow tube dress if you must know… Sue fished out a costume from the stock clearance collection.

Beautiful Malay wedding dress with train! With French Lace some more!

Ok… I can hear Ling laughing already… oh… maybe she’s not.

Nice. How much? RM125.

“125 only? You sure or not? French lace you know??? 1 meter of French lace can easily cost us RM98!”

“Affirmative!”

So I looked at the skirt, so beautiful. The right length and the right shade, the colour is perfectly paired with the sari fabric.

Great!

And then Sue had an idea.

“I know what to do with your top already.”

And then she sketched out her idea.

“Very nice!” I said.

The design is a corset and a jacket. It has my favorite butterfly sleeve and the collar looks Chinese but it’s an open collar. It has the Chinese button (there’s a name for it but I don’t remember what is it) to replace the usual button on jacket and then it’s long to give my body a slender look.

It looks too much like a kebaya jacket than a cheongsam inspired Jacket. Since the skirt we picked is a kebaya fish tail. And the embroidery looks kind of Malay too.

“I like it, but it’s not Chinese enough.” I said.

“No lah!” Like any designer, she defending her work, “it has Chinese collar what…”

We wanted to make something Muhibah but this one is too much like a Malay wedding gown. I’m using it for the Tea ceremony leh!

I like my jacket long like the half Kebaya top, now, we need to change something.

And then I thought, how about cap sleeve (most cheongsam has cap sleeve) and button collar, everything else stays.

“Ah!!!!! Very nice…” Sue sighs with approval.

I was happy. If anybody wants to say anything is wrong with this design, I will…

Ahem… I don’t know what I’ll do yet.

Ok… came the measurement and everything else. OMG! I’m so fat!!!

To achive my ideal figure, I gotta run at least 20KM on the treadmill on my next visit to the gym.