The Luka dress from LeeZu is all about the fabric with its beautiful design and the form, with its exaggerated sleeves.

It’s funny how the mind works, I was looking at the fabulous new mesh dress from LeeZu and its extra-long sleeves. They reminded me of three former housemates of mine from Malaysia. They were Muslim women who usually wore Western dress but with longer skirts and a hijab that covered their bodice and sleeves to right about the length of these sleeves. They were already in my mind when I saw the back of the dress and all of a sudden out of my memory bank popped the Malay expression for rose, bunga mawar. I never actually learned Malay while living with them, but absorbed enough that I could contribute to a Malay conversation in English. I thought I had forgotten everything until I saw this dress.

A bunga mawar by any other name would smell as sweet.

I added some tights from Maitreya and the fabulous Nicki ankle boots from Baiastice.

Thinking about them brought back all sorts of fun memories such as teaching them how to roller skate and cross-country ski. They were quite devout and while they took their hijabs off at the apartment and usually wore sarongs, they always wore them outside, including while cross-country skiing and roller-skating. Watching the hijabs fluttering in the breeze as they skiied down the hill at the park or raced round the track at the skating rink was a delight. One time they dressed me up so I could experience the special difficu (Read more...)

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