comfort clothing; old 'n' authentic

I have a confession to make; that just as much as I hoard places looking for makeup (even if it means ol' Chinese beauty saloons here in Penang), I can assure you that I hoard for clothing items in those places either. I have this tendency to scrouge places that I go to find gems (as a manner of speaking) and it always surprises me how they will turn out to be in my liking, even more than my ZARA or GAP purchases.

That's the beauty of fashion. You can always widen your horizon, in fact, minimizing your chances might not be a very good idea.

I wouldn't call what I have as 'fashion'. I humbly respect everyone's and anyone's taste of style and I agree totally that not two of us are the same in what we like to have on our back. But now, onto my point of 'scrouging places for gems'.

One of the places where I secretly like to find gems is, surprisingly, TESCO.

Don't get me wrong. It's not that I downgrade that place for anything low quality. But I've always been to that departmental store just for the groceries, never would I thought of it as a place to, put it in my own words, scrouge for gems. But scrouge it, I did.


Yes, I know. This is the epitome of a granny blouse. I would totally rock it in the 80s if I have this on. I love this blouse because of the old vibe that it gives. The dark color and the big faded white roses makes it even more interesting looking. It is a bit pleated down the colar area and has a nice, gold zipper down the back that goes half way. The material of it is soft, and I'm not going to kid anyone by guessing what it made out of. I'm just going with the description that it is soft. Not the kind of soft that Downy adverts made them to be though.


Now, the first time that I saw it in TESCO, I knew that I love it. This was definitely one of my style, what I would wear. The price then was RM49.00. I did the normal "this is too expensive for TESCO," and despite that I like it so much, I didn't get it then. I waited, and the next time I was in TESCO, who would have thought? This gem was on the rack for 70%, making it only RM14.75.


The way I would wear it. This was a size M, so does every story tells when you're on sale and you couldn't find your size S or XS anymore. But that's okay. I just tucked it into my skinnies.

Granny blouse: Tesco
Long black cardigan: ZARA
Skinny jeans: Cats Whiskers
Gold watch: Vincci Accessories
Ring: The Curve Flea Market