thrifty me.

 

I can't believe how uneconomical i have become. I am now officially a spendthrift.

So let's travel through time..During my first days in HS in da Philippines. I don't shop. I DON'T SHOP, for clothes that is. I rely all my fashion necessities from my mom. I believe i trusted her so much when it came to clothes. She usually bought me my then-"trendy" t-shirts, the famous "boot cut jeans", finished with my awesome "bulky" skechers rubber shoes. (my Dad called them, da bulldog shoes..LOL). Bench, Penshoppe, and the Sm department stores where my fashion staples back then.

This was the penny pinching me.."Clothes? bleh, kahit ano basta nasusuot."-Leanne Circa 2005

I was totally intimidated by Zara, Mango, Guess etc. I felt like if i ever set foot in these stores, i would turn to ashes, for only the "gifted-pockets" were worthy to step in. This was when I came to the Philippines, back in Oman, I never figured Jc Penney, Benetton, and Giordano were high-end, everyone bought their clothes there.

One faithful day, I was with my Mom, and she told me "Oh, sale sa Mango!" and I was like, 'yeah, as if naman'. So due to my Mom's persistent urge to go there. So I further explored. There was this PLAIN GRAY COTTON SHIRT. I WANT TO REITERATE "PLAIN". The moment i flipped the tag, my heart sank, seriously, it was on the floor. It was 799. who buys a PLAIN cotton shirt for 799? With 799, i would deem myself rich, 799 meant 2 or almost 3 shirts from SM, or heaps of food, for that matter. damn you discriminating store! ha! that's why there were only three of us in that store, my mom and me included, (darn i was such a bitter melon)  lol..how about all the fashion victims, like myself, who in all our innocence can't afford to buy a stupid plain gray shirt? And I got my answer, people like us are doomed to fizzle and evaporate into thin air, yep, i proved myself right, i don't belong in this store.

My Mom and Dad were such contributing factors, in the 'deterioration' of my fashion sense in the HS era(hahahaha). they wanted the "plain", "simple", "ordinary" clothes, that help you to blend in. Not FIT in but BLEND in.

I remember my first week in College. We still had no uniform, so we all had to wear our precious civilian clothes. I even asked my mom to buy a shirt from SM, a baby blue shirt with beading and glittery stuff, just for 350. I was so proud. LOL. So the first day, came, i never really cared what I wore, I was ok with it. But then as the days passed, I kinda noticed my then anonymous classmates wearing "nicely-designed" clothes, as I defined them back in 2006. I for the matter, wore shirts, 1 and a half sizes bigger. i wasn't used to wearing the "ill-fitted" clothing so i wore, loose ones. I was really fat then ( i kinda lost weight na, kinda? lol) so i resorted to loose clothes, and i felt uber thin in them. GOD, I was such a poster child for the fashion victims of the world.

So months passed, due to my realization that i had insufficient clothes and bad taste for fashion, i had to do something! I decided that I would go buy something for myself every week, ofcourse the savings I  had would enable me to purchase something WORTH wearing. At that point in time, fashion for me meant TIANGGE. the 168 type of stalls in cubao was my fashion haven that time. I was like going to the Hospital for fashion victims..LOL. Somehow i improved (i think), atleast i was learning to pick my own clothes.

At present: I can't say I'm a fashionista, because I can't afford to be one. Probably a frustrated fashionista. LOL. But one thing is, i learned that CLOTHES SHOULDN'T WEAR YOU, YOU SHOULD WEAR YOUR CLOTHES. like they say "nasa nagdadala lang yan". I find fashion in a plain white shirt, and your trusty old jeans. You don't have to flow with the latest trends in fashion, you don't have to wear liquid leggings, harem pants, balmain jackets, and military lace up boots. It doesn't matter what you wear, or where you bought it..what matters is how you bring yourself in it. I buy clothes from everywhere, from 168, Greenhills, SM, UKAY. Like I said it doesn't matter. (but sometimes it does..LOL..hahaha..one time my mom bought me a shirt from Mark and Spencer's, because they were on sale, so 750 nalang, plain white shirt lang, na may accent na buttons, Gah it felt good wearing it, I don't know, maybe there REALLY is magic when you wear clothes from branded stores.) LOL..I ask forgiveness for being so ironic..=)

One itsy bitsy tiny wish: I hope I earn heaps of money in the future so I can afford the "799 plain gray shirt"-type of clothes. *3*

xoxo