Forever 21 Haul

I have always like this brand when it first came into my country. The only one available 5-6 years ago was in One Utama shopping center. I remember my first clothing from it was a grey knitted sweater with a hood and the sweater is not a full body sized one and the sleeves were until my elbow. It was kinda expensive around 160 ringgit but looking at the knitted part I reckon it was around that price. It is a stylish sweater and I still have it in good condition in my cupboard. Overall Forever 21 has clothes that are the latest and trendiest styles around but sadly the price is not cheap. After looking at the US websites, I noticed that it was cheap in the states whereby t-shirt could be less than 10 USD and you could get bottoms such as skirts, jeans and pants less than 30 USD. Where else in KL, it cost a lot like I once bought a pair of skinny jeans for around 175 ringgit when it was around 30 USD. I'm quite sadden by the pricing here.

My friend Tracy was sent to Boston for work training and was kinda enough to help me bring back some items. So I took the opportunity to order from F21 and it's free shipping in the states if it's more than 50 USD. Hence I bought 2 skirts, 2 belts and 2 pieces of accessory. When she came back and handed me the items I was thrilled inside and looked forward to trying it.

Lace-Up Pencil Skirt (front)

The material for this is skirt a stretchy type of cloth and it hugs the body in a good way. The best part to me was it only cost 14.80 USD. I don't think you could find such cheap pricing here in KL at all which uses okay material. The quality is averagely good for a price like that.

Lace-Up Pencil Skirt (back)

I love the lace up part at the back it's so feminine.

Lace-Up Pencil Skirt (waist area)

Beaded Ballerina Skirt (Cream color)

Next this is a cream color skirt which I love a lot. There are a total of three layers where the most inner one is a lining. This skirt cost 22.80 USD which I feel is so worth it, so cheap. Great quality, latest trend of skirts now, I'm so happy to have picked it online and was able to fit it perfectly.

Buckled Elastic Belt (Brown), Woven Leatherette Belt (Brown), Caged Bird Necklace(Antic Gold), Birds in Flight Earrings (Peach/Gold)

I bought the necklace with a pair of earrings to match each other and I feel it's adorable. Those brown belts can match clothes easily and brown is a softer color than black which gives me the impression that it's more serious and brown is more casual. I would most likely match plain colored shirts with the ballerina skirt, not sure yet but maybe I can find some interesting shirts too. Looking forward to matching it to my style. I hope I will have other means of purchasing from the site as the style there are the latest and trendiest compared to those available for sale here in KL.

LeSportSac Spring & Summer Collection 2011

It's the season where you'll find plenty of people visiting the beaches, wearing shorts, tank top, spaghetti straps, bikinis, wearing colours that are vibrant. Of course I don't get to see these from where I am, but in Europe, US, Asia countries with seasons, it's everywhere. Fashion is a major part of life for the people who lives at those countries as the clothing changes with the weather it's best to follow. Every year every season will feature certain design, colours that influences the fashion line, be it in make up or clothing. This year orange is the thing but not every fashion line comes out with orange. Other than that, vibrant colours are still the thing, yellow, bright green, bright red, orange red. The colour trend can be spotted in make up, nail polishes, clothes and shoes.

Every brand is bound to release a new line in the season and this year I've gotten the LesportSac Spring & Summer Collection magazine from Kinokuniya again with a free bag. I really like these magazine that the Japanese publish. Most of their magazine always come with free stuff, like fashion magazine or catalog on a brand usually gives free bags. Magazine on Japanese animation gives free t-shirts, some card collection of an animation that is feature on the front page. I like this concept because it's a reasonable price and you only have limited quantities depending on how many magazines they have printed. Here are some pictures of this magazine I'm blogging about:

 

The front cover of the magazine

 

This is how the bag is in compact size where you can fit it inside another bag.

 

It shows other design patterns that were available

 

Instructions on how to fold up the bag and store it.

 

The bag in full size

 

Close photo of the pattern

 

How big the bag is inside

Model with all three designs

 

The model that was in the front page. Below are some of the bag designs which I really adore. It's all in the tote range which I really love the size, not too big not too small.

In the middle of the magazine there is a catalog on the patterns and what bag shape it is available in. I find this very informative instead of going to the shop and asking here and there. You see what you like, go to the shop and purchase it, no stress =P. For this season LeSportSac have some patterns that are really striking and some patterns that are subtle which brings out the sweet of a girl who carries it. The patterns that are simple are just so nice to look at, gives the mind a calm, soothing thought like "Ahhh I'm at a beautiful meadow", sadly it doesn't have a flower smell =P.  I like the pattern I picked as last year I picked a more vibrant and eye catching pattern. This pattern is just simple and nice.

LeSportSac Spring & Summer 2010

As we enter the summer season many fashion industry will introduce their new designs to suite the season. When it comes to summer, it's a season of vibrant colours, thin materials in clothing to suit the hot weather, slippers and shoes that doesn't cover the whole feet.

I'm not a big fan of LeSportSac as the money you pay for those bags can be used to buy a nice leather bag too. But I do like the designs they offer, it's cute, colorful and you don't get those kinds of design patterns printed on leather, it just spoils the leather. Last month while I was browsing around in Kinokuniya I came across the catalog for the Spring & Summer designs. I couldn't browse because it was wrapped up and reason being that it has a free gift if you purchase it. The free gift was a pouch and a strap is given to change it into a small sling bag.

It had a wonderful design therefore I bought it plus there was a 20% discount on it when I purchase another item. It's a win-win for me as I have other books and that magazine with the free gift only cost RM 50++ after discount. After purchasing it, I went to Isetan as they were having a sale and went to look for that pouch. That pouch cost RM 210 and Isetan was giving 50% discount resulting it to RM 105 but still I got mine half of the price after discount. It was one of my best buy that I have ever made. Eventually my sister saw how nice and she bought the magazine too but with a different design pouch. This is the first time that I bought a LeSportSac and at a cheap price too.

It was my good luck day as I flip through the magazine the design pattern that I chose for my pouch is a design that can only be found in Japan. In Malaysia you won't be able to get the design I have unless you fly to Japan and bought it there. What a wonderful day it was.

My pouch design

My sister's pouch design