Looking for an elegant gown, 50th birthday

Anne Yrjana · 16-09-2006, 05:51 PM

I'll turn 50 in Nov and am coming to HK to have a holiday and maybe find an elegant not too dressy gown for my birhtday. Does anybody have suggestions? Black may be the colour and "economy" is the price range

anne

rani · 18-09-2006, 11:54 AM

Anne,

How about a Chinese Cheongsam?

http://www.chinesetailor.com

It is difficult to find gowns in Western sizes, you'll need to have something custom made.

larac · 19-09-2006, 10:59 PM

Try Sparkles in the Pedder Building or Evelyn B in the Grand Progress Building - can't quite recall the address but its in Lan Kwai Fong - same building as Ozzie Cossie.

Anne Yrjana · 21-09-2006, 03:22 AM

Thank you very much. I'll check the ideas you gave me. It might be a good idea to have a Chinese dress-so many friends of mine are celebrating as well and I don't have "anything to wear"

larac · 21-09-2006, 11:38 AM

This weeks List has a long list of places incl. Siriporn on Cochrane St - you can see it from the escalator and Blac de Cine in the Pedder Building that does Chinese-style, also lots of the shops in Stanley sell chinese style dresses.

elle · 21-09-2006, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by larac:

This weeks List has a long list of places incl. Siriporn on Cochrane St - you can see it from the escalator and Blac de Cine in the Pedder Building that does Chinese-style, also lots of the shops in Stanley sell chinese style dresses.

Blanc de Chine's dresses are very beautiful, but forbiddingly expensive (even more so than Shanghai Tang). For a good quality Cheong Sam I'd highly recommend Linva Taylor on Cochrane Street.