An invitation from India

As a dressmaker or seamstress, Tina needed inspirations. A jet-set girl with wide imagination loved to make friends, too. She made friends in and through many ways and one of the ways was through the Internet. One of her Internet contacts and friends was a girl called Chandni from India. A graduate in biology from an Indian University.

It was a week before the Indian Light Festival the Indians called "Divali", Chandni called Tina and invited her to come to her city in the state of  Andhra Pradesh to celebrate the Divali. And Tina accepted. Tina was told not to bring many outfits, Chandni said that she would dressed her up Indian ways.

So, Tina went. Arrived at Chandni's home, went to a room prepared by Chandni, she saw laying on the bed, dresses that Chandni mentioned. This left Tina open-mouthed and thought that Chandni was another hell of a crazy girl. Tina looked at Chandni who was sneering behind her. How much  all those dresses would cost, Tina asked, but Chandni said, they were all for Tina. Chandni was indeed another girl from a multi-millionaire family. The day came and the girls had fun with lights and dances and sweet dishes.

a dance

beautiful ladies outfits for Divali 

men's Indian ourfits

Tina stayed there for 2 weeks and she learned quite a few of Indian dressmaking tricks. She really had wonderful moments with Chandni. And before checking in the airport, Tina in return invited Chandni to spend New Year holiday in Jakarta.

Tina's feasibility study into business (3)

She found a place for her shop, she engaged an accountant to handle her financial affairs. She had a meeting with Edward. This plan of hers brought her closer to this person. The other day, they met in a coffee-shop at the Grand Indonesia Mall and discussed about the name of her shop and how to get it legally registered.

While they where in the middle of the topic, Tina's eyes caught sight of a pretty lady entering the coffee shop, approached the counter. She was accompanied by a young man. Tina and Edward stared at them, then they heard that pretty lady was speaking in a half English and half Indonesian language. Tina focused her stare and she told Edward that she recognized that lady. She grabbed her Android and browsed, then lo...! She showed Edward what she saw in her Android and asked him could that pretty lady be Tania Gunadi, an Indonesian born actress. So much that they looked alike, the newcomer lady and the actress. But Edward said could be or could not be, and that nowadays so many persons could look alike. Tina shrugged. Tina commented on the lady's attire and she looked at herself...

Tania Gnnadi in a cowgirl style

compare to

like this?

Sneering she asked Edward to compare her against the Gunadi lady... :D

Yves Saint Laurent - a fashion designer

Everybody knows this name of a fashion house. One of the most famous and adored among the fashion houses. The founder, Yves Saint Laurent, who was also a fashion designer, was born in Algeria on a sacred date of the 1st of August, 1936, according to Wikipedia, designed various kind of styles. From women's gowns, bags, men's outfits till their accessories and always win a large size of place in the market.

This year's trend is more going to the ranches of Texas and Mexico. Like we used to see in some cowboys' movies in the 60's. The stetson and the sombreros. Imagine them beside the horses or cows.

hooded  long sleeves shirt

Coat and tie

wow! women in black instead!

There, many would sure lay eyes on this designers style and vogue. 

Tina's extremely hot day

Sunday, a sunny day. In the month of July, the sun shines brightly over the equator that crosses Indonesia, and Jakarta, a quite advance city with surplus concrete sky-scrapers add to the heat.

Tina got up a bit late to the rings of her phone. That was her daddy, yelling in her ear. He reprimanded Tina of not informing him about her business plans. Her daddy found out from his friend who happened to be one of Edward's firm employees. Like all jet-sets children, she was as stubborn as her father. She said that she lived her life as would like it to be. She hung up on him.

Still in trance, she figured out what her Sunday would be. Then "ting...tong.." on her computer. Checked it, gosh... she forgot completely about this girl, a Mauritian girl, Mirabelle. Mirabelle was one of her best contact, but for the last two months, she'd forgotten about her. Mirabelle lived in the northern part of the country, so she said.

A chat went on, Mirabelle sent her some lovely pictures of her country's treasures. Tina was happy, in return, she also sent some of her treasures to Mirabelle.

beach pareos from Mauritius

are colorful and beautiful

Javanese wooden puppets from Indonesia

have many characters, mostly are Ramayana characters

After exchanging conversation, Mirabelle invited Tina to come pay a visit to her country and Tina promised to have fun with her in that far away land.

Tina's Indecisive Saturday

What would she do on that Saturday? Tina'd been walking around her apartment. In the very early morning she was awaken by her " Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid " alarm from her Android. She had her breakfast with her head in the cloud, wondered what the day was, to realize it was Saturday.

Walking around from the bedroom to the sitting room then the dining room, scratching her head. Sat down on the sofa in front of her TV. Switched the TV on, came onto the screen something that made her jump . She stared at her TV screen with eyes widened then she sighed. She had her asset somewhere else. That was quite interesting, as she thought. Just the other day she and her friend Edward, a business consultant, talked about banking in relation with her plan.

As she got up from the sofa, she thought to put aside this matter for a while, it was a resting day. She picked up her phone and dial Chris. She asked Chris if she would be able to accompany her strolling the street that day, but Chris said she was already booked to make-up a bride for the evening.

Tina sighed as she hung up. Okay, she went to the kitchen, helped herself with a bite and browsed the Internet through her phone, searching for news on celebrities. Suddenly she spotted an advertisement about a rock concert which was to be held on that very evening. She checked on the availability of the entrance-ticket. Luckily, she got one bought on-line.

kellifrance.com

Tina got herself ready for an evening alone, without companion. 

Dress costumes around the world - Afghanistan

The world consists of so many nations and tribes. Each has its own way of dressing up according to each customs. Today, several ladies costume dresses from Afghanistan are be exhibited.

for spesial festival

lovely head-dress or cover

Colorful costumes which are capable of captivating the eyes of the lookers and make them want to possess those lovely dresses.

Tina's feasibility study into business (2)

It was a bright day, Tina started deriving lists of the matters to be discussed with her friend, Edward or Eddy, who worked as a business consultant. She called him on the phone and told him briefly about the matters, subject and objective of their discussion regarding her plan.

Edward suggested that they should meet and Tina invited him to her residence located somewhere in the Cengkareng area not very far from the  international airport. It was a quite classy apartment.

Tina prepared everything, including some refreshments. And she stepped into some comfortable outfit

She said to herself dressing up like this in the hot big city of Jakarta would be very comfy. Edward came half an hour before three o'clock in the afternoon bringing a prospectus. That day Tina started her plan.