Where to buy Tuxedo Shirts?
Because I don’t attend many black tie events (and neither do my friends), I was stumped recently when someone asked me where to find tuxedos. My first thought was to tell them to go to a bridal studio 
Heaven knows, bridal studios have costumes for all sorts of styles, they could have tuxedos too? For tuxedo shirts, I’ve seen them in Marks & Spencer for more affordable ones or I think they are tailor made most times for perfect fit.
Honestly though, those who do have to wear tuxedos on a regular basis probably have the money to afford tailoring!
Affordable Pearl jewelry
If you have been wondering where to get some affordable pearl jewelry, you might want to consider a counter I found at Isetan – Shinju Pearls. The pearls are freshwater pearls and they have a wide array of pearl necklaces and pearl earrings.
I haven’t been back there since my last visit mainly because I haven’t had the time to shop anywhere lately. The nice thing about buying it from Isetan is that when Isetan goes on sale, the jewelry too goes on sale for selected lines. Good yes?
Bedat & Co Luxury Watches Sold to Malaysian Company
I saw on WWD that luxury watch brand Bedat & Co has been sold to a Malaysian firm, Luxury Concepts Watches & Jewellery Sdn Bhd. (link) Bedat & Co was previously owned by the Gucci group. (news here)
My first thought when I read this bit of news was “Oh my! We in Malaysia can actually afford it in these times?!” So I looked up the Luxury Concepts company and saw that they are the ones behind the luxury brand watches in Starhill Gallery. These are the stores where you can go to buy your Patek Philippe and Armand Nicolet and other brands I’d never heard of in the mainstream market.
Is this an achievement? Well, put it this way. When will you ever see Gucci, luxury and Malaysia in the same sentence again? We hit the main fashion retail news for once!
HP Mini Vivienne Tam edition
When I first read about the new limited edition HP Mini Vivienne Tam notebook I thought I’d really want it. The whole package called out to me, where it looked both functional and gorgeous. Also, its a lovely small size just like my Asus Eeepc. However, now that I’ve seen more pictures of it on Cnet, I’m less enamoured with it. The press pictures made the peony cover look so much better than it does in real life based on the pictures I’m seeing.
The problem of course is that, this is just a dressed up version of the HP Mini 1000 which would cost half the price of the jazzed up version. Its just not worth paying extra for a shell – pretty though the shell may be. I’d rather be spending that extra money on memory be it Mac memory or just memory for my other notebooks to jazz things up on the inside rather than on the outside.
So yeah, after hearing that it might cost a cool RM2800 here in Malaysia if or when the Vivienne Tam edition is brought in by HP, I think I’m giving it a miss. Pretty it might be, but practical it just is not.