My friend had a coat custom made as it is hard to find things here that fit if you do not have the perfect Asian body. Believe me....I do not have that body:(
I tried on some jackets at a store when we were in Tianjian last fall. I got up to a 4X......I do not wear that size in America.....and it felt like my arms would fall off from lack of circulation. It seems the Asian women do not have shoulders/deltoids or biceps to speak of. So I decided to try the custom coat place my friend had used.
So three of us piled into our car on a Tuesday morning to head to the market where she had gotten hers. (Another friend wanted one too) I had given Mike the business card she had to show his admin who would then pass on the information to the driver. It is a very good thing the one who had been there came along. She kept saying to the driver this didn't seem like we were headed in the right direction. She wasn't exactly sure as she had taken the subway before. Finally the driver shows her the map he had been given........It was not the right place!!! We finally got it straightened out and got there with a drive that took at least twice as long as it should have!
Measurements were taken, colors chosen and we ordered our coats. Mine seemed to be more expensive than my friends had been but then it had been two years....My friend asked, she speaks Chinese, the person told her it was because my fur was so expensive. OK, whatever.....
I planned on getting one for Olivia too but I was not going to pay that price for the fur again.....so I went to my favorite market Muxiyuan where they have an entire area of fur things. All colors of fur things; she wanted grey. I found two pieces that I thought she would approve of and paid way less than for my one......live and learn!! I do love that market!! We went back on Saturday to order Olivia's.
We went to get them the day before we headed to the States for holiday....It was so sad and depressing. They did not fit!! They were so tight, again I thought they were trying to cut my arms off buy cutting circulation and Olivia's just zipped with no room to breathe. So he remeasured and we added to his measurements because he came up with the same numbers.......
Yesterday we went back to the market and came away much happier with new coats, Yipeeee!!! We had the shop keeper take our picture.
Behind us are sample coats that you can choose styles and he has books to look through as well. The sample Olivia choose from was of the shiny variety like the green coat over my right shoulder....only it was bright yellow! You must have creative vision when designing your own coat!! The plastic bags contain coats waiting to be picked up.
Olivia is sporting the new scarf I made for her:)
Love, fondly, sincerely,
zaijian,
Ramona
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