The Sartorial Interview

Tagged by Afti Rusli.

*Job?
Corporate Auditor.

*Best sartorial advice from your parents?
Mum: "Don't dress like an aunty"
Dad: Bunyi cengkerik comes to mind....but probably "Why wear until like that?"

*Style icons
Kate Hudson

*Describe your personal style
Boho-chic

*I build my daily look around...
What I feel like in the morning

*Personal Style quirk
Accessories with sentimental value

*Favorite designers
Let's see - designers that strike a chord...Elie Saab, Zac Posen, Missoni, Monique Lhuillier, Christian and Jeffrey from Project Runway...

*Most cherished item
My grandmother's 5 gold bangles

*I feel best wearing?
Anything that makes me feel like I can walk straight into a photo shoot. Annie Leibovitz's, preferably.

*The first thing I look at in another Sartorialist’s outfit...
Shoes

*I always break this fashion rule...
Wear suits for work

*I never break this fashion rule...
Don't wear brown shoes with black bottoms

*Never caught wearing?
Earrings. Don't have holes!

*Most underrated item in menswear/womenswear?
Have to agree with Afti - undergarments is a good one

*Dress to impress who?
Myself

*Shine your own shoes?
Never bothered

*Favorite stores?
I ALWAYS walk into MNG at the airport, Naf Naf at the Curve, Dorothy Perkins at One U, Jaspal at Pavilion. Come hell or high weather.

*Your next “must have” purchase?
Bought them already. Black pointy patent leather shoes.

*I only buy __________ in Europe.
Don't know man. Haven't been there yet.

*I skimp when buying …
Branded goods.

*I splurge on…..
Shirts (whenever I find a nice one)

*Favorite item of clothing
Depends on the mood of the day

*Guilty pleasure
Probably shoes.

*Cologne, skincare
Cologne gives me a headache. Loccitane and Body Shop for skincare.

*Most stylish city (Milan, Paris, London, New York, other)
Define stylish. I think any city can be stylish.

*When I was in high school I wore?
Too many bad outfits.

*Sports?
Does Yoga count?

*Favorite fashion magazine?
InStyle.

*Favorite vacation spot?
Haven't got a particular one yet.

*Favorite neighborhood restaurant?
Dragon-I, Centrepoint.


Tag: Doubleaye, Faza, Jo-Ann.

Teeth

It has come to my attention today, that there are friends I did not know about who read this blog. Well, welcome, and hope you have come to stay.

Today, I will blog about a topic not particularly juicy, but interesting to me nonetheless.

If you make yourself really really small, like maybe half a cm tall, and stand on an adult human's lip, I guess teeth may seem something like the Stonehenge to you. Huge, old and immovable.

Imagine my surprise to find out that just like everything else, they rely on each other to stand, with balance pivoted on that point of leaning against the other. So when you take one away, like sleeping ogre children in a cot the adjacent ones wake up surprised, and rumble and grumble their way to making themselves heard.

Now imagine wiring them together and trying to pull them straight in a row.

Yes I just got braces put in. Not quite as traumatizing as I had imagined all these years, but not the most pleasant sensation either. Suffice to say that I am glad I waited for the right dentist, orthodontic options and ability to laugh at my own little scrapes to come along.

One day, I will tell you all about dentists’ nurses. Those ladies, who I usually find to be reserved with quiet compassion – they really have a good reason for that stoic expression. God bless their little souls for some of the literally twisted things they have had to see.