Semua orang should be the proud owner of pretty clothes. Clothes aren’t just the mere garments covering up the figures underneath, but a shirt, a pair of jeans, the Manolo Blahnik peep-toes, they all serve as the shop window on where we get to display our personality in the form of the latest Must Have or a just 70% Off bargain.
Antah apakan.
Anyway, Bandar Seri Begawan, or Gadong, for that matter (because everyone knows no one goes to Bandar anyway), is far from being the next fashion capital in Asia.
Ani pasal… Cuba kamu liat kiri kanan kamu. Di Gadong lah ah, saya ambil as example. To your left, gothic punks, dressed in black, usually not in the name of gothicness tapi the colour black is used to cover up the flabby figures underneath. Nothing wrong with that, because everyone does that, from Rosie O’Donnell to the babu hajahs in their black jubahs. To your right, Harajuku fashion wannabes, with their long striped stockings, courtesy of Route 66, 3 for the price of $0.50, MURAH NYAMU. To your atas, the decent ayu-tapi-banarnya-hooking-up-dengan-boyfriend-durang-yang-usually-eons-older-arah-couple-seat-di-Bolkiah girls, with their decent tudungs, Nazmi Textile Mall, but of course, and their decent button-downs. And everyone knows mengapa durang pakai button-down blouses. And finally, the menemeng little rich girls yang bajunya lawa but we all know that baju atu tadi pagi mamanya memilihkan.
Bukan pulang saya kan mengucap cara urang Brunei bebaju, pasal banarnya baju saya pun biasa jua, murah jua, inda jua kali dari Eileen Chan semua baju saya ani. Tapi as a keen observer of outfits, baju-baju urang Brunei banarnya inda bida, ganya baju urang Brunei, bini-bini lah saja ah, baju kitani ani IKUT-IKUTAN. Baju-baju Bruneians nada individuality. The French are well known for their chic fashion sense, the couture gowns, the sheer glam of it all, thus earning them gelaran as the Fashion Capital Of The World. Paris, not the French. Banarnya, baju-baju durang atu inda jua berapa, mun sekadar beret atu, askar pun be beret, inda pun kana ucap fashionable. Tapi the Parisians kana praise durang punya fashion sense pasal sebelum orang lain di dunia ani be scarf, be beret, bemini, durang udah dulu. Authenticity all along.
And of course, our fellow fashionable Asians, the Japanese. Mun sekadar stokin panjang bewarna atu kitani pun dulu ada yang Power Rangers, tapi the long stockings and fishnets and loud colours matched together creates an ensemble lain to that of the rest of the world. The lawaness and the originality itself yang buat the European fashion critics yang menemeng respect arah the Japs.
Bruneians, cuba gitau aku satu garment atau jenis baju yang screams the word Brunei.
Manada kan.
Except for baju kurung, tapi atu Malaysia pun ada. Tudung Bienda, tudung Mawi, lagi tia. Bienda, Mawi, semua urang Malaysia. Tapi mun kamu kan bejual tudung Juju inda jua urang membali kali.
Cubatah kitani together create satu style baju yang lawa and can tell the world YES EVERYONE ANI ORANG BRUNEI PUNYA BAJU AND YOU WILL LOVE IT SAMA MACAM KAMU SUKA WEDGES YANG BANARNYA NINIKU PUN DULU MEMAKAI. Ani kiri kanan ku liat orang punya baju sama jua macam yang ku liat arah E! minggu lapas. Mentang-mentang arah E! lawa tah tu nya. Orang E! atu di mana, New York, London, tampat sajuk, inda kan di Brunei ani pun kamu kan memakai coat Burberry. Mun Burberry banar respect jua ku, ani mun sekadar yang fake dari Joenah Boutique atu jangan tah dulu kan dishow off.
Lapas atu tau ku pulang Brunei ani panas, inda jua payah kali kan memakai summer dress yang cleavage low kan mati atu di Brunei. And mun pakai tights yang banarnya bejual untuk seluar lapis baju kurung atu baik tah jangan, makin tah bida usul orang Brunei, kana ketawakan saja uleh tourist.
Tapi kan, inda jua dapat ku blame rakyat Negara kitani pasal baju durang bida, pasal 1) Baju ku pun bida and 2) mun kadai di Brunei and Miri bejual baju cematu ganya, apa buleh buat, inda jua kan membawa Vogue and membuat baju tiap bulan di Freego kali. What we need is a kadai yang bisai and inda bejual baju trashy yang mihir and baju-bajuan atu murah. Macam, mun kan membali arah Elle atu lawa pulang bajunya, tapi mun blazer yang macam bos mamaku pakai keraja udah kan beratus...
So, warga-warga Brunei, di sini saya listkan kadai-kadai di Brunei yang bejual baju bisai-bisai, antah aku pun inda tau mengapa, pasal aku suka buat reviews kali.
IORA. Lawa like hell semua bajunya. And fashionable. Sini lah yang paling bisai bagiku. But if you’re looking for cheaper and more laidback clothes, then go to Hua Ho. Semua big branches durang lah. Ada Schwarzenbach, Googles, antah apa kah spellingnya, semua affordable and lawa and inda trashy. If you’re looking for extra lawa, try Bingo. Yang di Mall.
If kamu ada extra cash and willing to sacrifice for fashion, then go to Butik Eileen Chan. Lawa, and baru fashionable berabis.
You know what, I’ll end this uber useless post now.
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