2006/08/23

is this cute?

As a general rule, I don't have very good fashion sense. Today I had to buy a suit. I start official work tomorrow morning, but my really great suit is still being made and won't be ready until tomorrow afternoon. I needed more than one anyway, so I decided to go buy one today. (With a time crunch of only about half and hour)
The good news is, it actually fit. Maybe Chinese people are getting bigger and therefore they have increased their sizes in the past two years, but I couldn't find things that fit very often last time.
The bad news is, I've only been here a few days but already whatever knowledge of cute-ness I had in America is blurred by the opinions of what is cute here. I have no idea if this suit is actually cute, but the clerks kept telling me how great it looked, how good the quality is, why it's good for this season, why the color is so great, and how popular it is that I too began to think it is ok. I bought it. I didn't have many choices because it had to be a matching skirt and suit jacket and it had to fit. Afterwards I starting wondering if I could ever wear it in America. I'm not sure, but probably not. But, my coworkers here liked it and the bosses didn't say anything negative (they told me the jacket I wore the other day was too short!) so I guess it's ok.

2006/08/06

I'm here.

Welcome! I've entered the world of blogging. This wasn't as user-friendly as I has imagined, so we'll just see how this goes!