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My younger daughter is getting married in a few months, and I am looking for something like a silk kimono topper to wear to the pre-wedding party. I’ve found some lovely options (which I cannot afford), but I was starting to think maybe I should just make my own. (Let the hilarity ensue…). Before taking such drastic measures, however, I wanted to make one last effort to find Just The Thing, and my search turned up some wonderful lovelies and some tragic uglies.
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Is the pose deliberate, do you think?This Designing Women kimono was so bad, I kept having to go back and look at it again to make sure I didn’t imagine it. Nope. Still there. Still terrible.I seriously considered the beautiful silk chiffon options from SilkSquirrel, but decided I needed something a little warmer. Next summer wedding, though, I’m in!This makes me feel like I should call H.R. (though not as much as these jeans by the same maker)I’m such a sucker for a hand-dyed vintage silk kimono! By LaDolceVitaVtgThis looks like a heat map from an antiperspirant commercial.Absolutely stunning! By WendyBalisle whose shop holds manymagnificent wonders!Where is she going that she’s wearing her grandmother’s bedspread and strappy sandals?Positively stunning vintage hand-painted Furisode kimono. By SYMPATHIQUEkimonoThis was listed as a gag bridal gift. Gag is right.My happy ending! I decided upon one of the gorgeous hand-painted silk velvet toppers by the lovely Tiresh. For hygiene purposes, it is recommended you keep your intestines on the inside of your body.I’m sorely tempted, just to see the look on my daughter’s face… Oh, and it gets worse.
I love the one you have picked out! And those vintage kimonos are stunning. I wish I could wear something that elegant to my brother’s wedding but, alas, his husband-to-be stipulated the dress and colour I had to buy.
I keep wanting you to come shopping in my formal clothes closet. All my friends do it, and it makes me happy for the clothes to have an outing. We’d have fun and you’d save a ton of money… Maybe some day.
February 13, 2020 at 9:03 am
If I could grow a little taller the red one would be mine…except I don’t usually wear red.
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February 13, 2020 at 1:12 pm
You could always have it hemmed… I love red.
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February 13, 2020 at 1:57 pm
When you really get down to it most fashion is designed for tall slim ….younger women….not short,round grandmas. LOL
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February 13, 2020 at 4:51 pm
I’m not short, but I’m right there with you about the round and grandma… And it’s not going to stop me!
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February 13, 2020 at 10:11 am
I really really like a few of them. One especially by WendyBalisle. I will be laughing al day after seeing the “part time hooker”. Hal
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February 13, 2020 at 1:12 pm
That one is just rude!
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February 13, 2020 at 10:47 am
I’d just vote against the Part Time Hooker at the wedding, you don’t want to upstage the bride……
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February 13, 2020 at 1:13 pm
(spits coffee at laptop)
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February 13, 2020 at 2:32 pm
I love the one you have picked out! And those vintage kimonos are stunning. I wish I could wear something that elegant to my brother’s wedding but, alas, his husband-to-be stipulated the dress and colour I had to buy.
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February 13, 2020 at 4:52 pm
I keep wanting you to come shopping in my formal clothes closet. All my friends do it, and it makes me happy for the clothes to have an outing. We’d have fun and you’d save a ton of money… Maybe some day.
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February 14, 2020 at 3:56 pm
I suspect that only your scarves would fit me. We do have to meet in person some time though.
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February 14, 2020 at 5:07 pm
I have clothes in all sizes, and I suspect you’re smaller than I am. And yes to the in-person thing.
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