There's not been much posting because there's been a wedding in the house. Not mine thank god. But it would be just like me to spring something like that quite suddenly. Nope, it was Style Salvage Steve's sister's wedding yesterday and since Steve was the best man, it was all speeches, prep, tailcoats and waistcoats, flowers... etc etc. Of course my bit part is just to show up and look suitably turned out and not detract attention from the bride. Despite that insignificance of that task, I still managed to bungle it up. I had decided to dig out this dress I bought in New York two years ago from Label on Lafayette Street - a cream velvet thing with hand-painted strokes and flocking.
Yup, remember these awful pics taken in a dark hotel room where I'm part-sleepy and part-foggy. Well, look upon these as the before pics. I took it to the dry cleaners and two days later, it came back and all the ink had ran to dye the dress pale blue in parts and intensely navy in others.
I did splutter to the drycleaning lady to whom I had explained extensively how the dress needed to be cleaned... "Erm...it's blue!" and she gave me a smile and said "Ya, it's better, no?", completely unapologetic about the whole affair. "Err...I guess...?" I shrugged. I could have thrown a strop about it but actually the more I looked at it, the more the blue was looking more appealing. For one, it eliminated the slightly bridal-looking element of the dress and the colouration actually gave the dress a new look entirely...
In the gusty winds and harsh grey light, the dress does hold it's own better with the addition of the deep inky blue. On this occasion, I guess it's ok that I was such a soft touch when it came to the drycleaners but hopefully when a true true disaster comes around, I'll at least give a frown.
P.S. Quite the wedding for the newly wed Mrs Emma Belton... as the wedding was held at the Mandarin Oriental in Knightsbridge, Beyonce happened to be staying there and she came across the bride and did a finger gesture and said to her "You look A-MAZing...!". I'm not a celeb gazer but even I would milk that story to grandkids...
