Eid al-Fitr 2018 Outfit: Dramatic Kimono-inspired Red Abaya Dress

I really meant it when I said I had virtually no time to shop for my Eid outfit, so thankfully I had this super dramatic red abaya dress to fish out from my closet. It has been sitting in my closet for at leastfour years, just waiting for the right time to make its (re)entry into my life.


Although…

The Dark Side Dress




Nicknamed so because if I were a Sith Lord in the Star Wars universe, this dress would be a part of my evil uniform.

    I brushed off this dress when I pulled it out of a rack in Zara — barely gave it a second glance, really. So if anyone is questioning how this dress even ended up in my closet, it was purely the result of Shah making one interesting observation: "Doesn't that dress look like something Kylo Ren would wear?"

    Monochrome in Navy + A Little Gold | My Two Shoe Phases

    I talked about my two shoe phases on Instagram last week, which are:
    (1) Sneakers all day errrday, and
    (2) Nope no sneakers for a while please NONE thanks.

    I feel like there should be Phase 3 — something like an extra "ideal phase" where I'd take turn wearing sneakers one day and non…

    Photo Diary: Zhouzhuang Ancient Water Town, Shanghai

    After my last outfit post featuring a pair of dainty embroidered cloth shoes from Zhouzhuang — and expressing regret over not sharing photos of the little ancient water town — I've decided to go ahead and share them now anyway, even though it's been over a year since my trip there.

    There are plenty of water towns, or water villages, near Shanghai so Shah and I had a hard time choosing which to go, but in the end Shah decided to go with Zhouzhuang as it was relatively easy and time-saving to go from where we stayed at in Shanghai (also because I had given up on trying to choose which one to go to and asked Shah to decide on his own entirely, which is a rare thing for my opinionated-self to do).

    The thing is, Venice is one of my most favourite cities in the world so I was incredibly intrigued about visiting a water town dubbed "Venice of the East" in a country with totally different vibes from Italy. From what I've read, Zhouzhuang and the other water towns were every bit as touristy as Venice iswhichch made me even more curious.

    At the end of my day there, however, I stopped comparing Zhouzhuang to Venice. Aside from having canals and little buildings and homes surrounding them, their similarities end there; Zhouzhuang absolutely has its own Eastern charms and quirks, with its own brand of beauty. It made me wish I had the time to visit the other water towns near Shanghai.
    Who knows, perhaps one day soon?


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