today’s get-up 29oct09

you know, when h&m and comme des garcons announced their collaboration quite a little while ago, i think i did a war victory dance. not because i’m a huge fan of h&m – i do buy some cheap basics from h&m from time to time – but because i am a die-hard comme des garcons fanatic and just the thought of being able to buy more cdg at a cheaper price was… how i imagine being on drugs must be like.

i was high.

when the day of the sale came around, i had a class at 9am. so i gave a whole bunch of money to my friend and just told him, “get what you can!! grab me that coat first! then that ruffled sleeve shirt!”

he called me shortly after 9:30, telling me the coat wasn’t even on sale at the store, and he bought me a cardigan, a scarf and the white ruffled sleeve shirt.

so i looked online on ebay. i must have saved that search and gotten the search results emailed to me for months. months! i tried bidding on it a few times, but the prices always went sky-high and i wasn’t that stupid enough to pay $600 for a coat that sold at about $350.

i had given up hope.

until several weeks ago, when a little email creeped into my inbox telling me that one of the jackets were on sale. this coat, by the way, is a toned-down version of a coat from the original comme des garcons line from several years ago. it was brilliant. and unaffordable.

perhaps because it has been some time since it was sold in the stores, and perhaps because the hype has died down, the coat was… cheap. i mean, i got it for a mighty good price! i was ecstatic!! no one else even bid on it! i almost kissed it when i took it out of the box after the postman brought it along.

swirling around and channeling my inner loie fuller

+ vintage felted hat
+ black teeshirt
+ charm necklace by sunao kuwahara
+ washed silk harem pants by RÊVASSEUR
+ coat by comme des garcons for h&m
+ studded boots by junya watanabe

yeah… i’m super happy! haha! cheap thrills hey hey hey!

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