Inexpensive Chinese dresses in Vancouver?
October 15, 2010 7:36 AM Subscribe
Inexpensive Chinese dresses in Vancouver?
I want to dress up in a sexy/playful chinese outfit kinda like these: regular or lingerie(mildly nsfw?) or take-out. But I want to buy in person, not online.
It does NOT need to be traditional nor authentic. I'm looking more for sexy/playful (bedroom surprise for my guy). But most "regular" chinese dresses are sold for brides, so they're expensive. I don't need the quality to be super nice as I won't be wearing it outdoors. I'm looking for slightly-better-than-Halloween-costume-quality. But I have a (maybe silly?) pet peeve about the ones the ones that I've seen sold as Halloween costumes. They tend to be generic Asian, and combine details (eg. chinese qipao with japanese obi), or they're just simply too expensive. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places? Maybe I'll have better luck just looking for a traditional but short-and-cheap dress?
So... I am looking for:
- inexpensive, ~$40 max
- can be bought in person, rather than online, in the Vancouver area.
- looking for sexy but it doesn't necessarily have to be sexy right out of the box. I can sew a little, so I can make small easy alterations to make it work.
- I am more than happy to venture into Chinese malls/markets/etc if that's where the deals are but where? And I don't speak any Chinese so potential language barrier with staff?
- I am wider than the average Asian girl, so Asian stores that only carry "one size fits all" will probably not work.
Tell me where in the Vancouver area to go! Thanks!
(anon because it's a surprise)
I want to dress up in a sexy/playful chinese outfit kinda like these: regular or lingerie(mildly nsfw?) or take-out. But I want to buy in person, not online.
It does NOT need to be traditional nor authentic. I'm looking more for sexy/playful (bedroom surprise for my guy). But most "regular" chinese dresses are sold for brides, so they're expensive. I don't need the quality to be super nice as I won't be wearing it outdoors. I'm looking for slightly-better-than-Halloween-costume-quality. But I have a (maybe silly?) pet peeve about the ones the ones that I've seen sold as Halloween costumes. They tend to be generic Asian, and combine details (eg. chinese qipao with japanese obi), or they're just simply too expensive. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places? Maybe I'll have better luck just looking for a traditional but short-and-cheap dress?
So... I am looking for:
- inexpensive, ~$40 max
- can be bought in person, rather than online, in the Vancouver area.
- looking for sexy but it doesn't necessarily have to be sexy right out of the box. I can sew a little, so I can make small easy alterations to make it work.
- I am more than happy to venture into Chinese malls/markets/etc if that's where the deals are but where? And I don't speak any Chinese so potential language barrier with staff?
- I am wider than the average Asian girl, so Asian stores that only carry "one size fits all" will probably not work.
Tell me where in the Vancouver area to go! Thanks!
(anon because it's a surprise)
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E.g. my wife and I were just at Ochi on Pender between Main & Columbia last week, and there plenty of moderately priced dresses.
And all the retail staff speak English just fine in malls like Aberdeen Centre, Yaohan, etc. Many chinese customers resort to English anyway because some of us speak Mandarin but not Cantonese or vice versa, many customers are Asian of a different variety (filipino, chinese, vietnamese, etc).
It sounds to me like you just need to get up, walk out the door and actually head down to Old Chinatown or the new Chinatown (i.e. Richmond).
posted by randomstriker at 2:34 PM on October 15, 2010