Dress Hunting in Lagos

So I was engaged to compere an event with a "phantom of the opera" theme. I was asked to wear a ball gown (Yikes). My first thought was  wouldn't that add volumes to my already voluptuous self?  Next thought was "where is Osas Ajibade?" I could totally rock that dress she wore to the AMVCA 2016 if its my size (serious doubt)..

Fabulous! Do you think there is that basket thingy

 under the dress?

So I asked my event planner who gave me the brief where I could find such a thing in Lagos.
She told me to go to a designer at the street just before Mobil on Awolowo road.
She said she patronizes only Nigerian designers. Yes Ma'am.
On my way...I stopped by a certain designer shop - name starting with 'O' ..I think number One Hundred and something ...the clothes there are beaded, quite heavy when you wear them.
 I went in; 3 sales girls...I was looking like a ragamuffin though (as I usually do sometimes off stage). One girl was nice. The other two looked like they could see that there was no money in my account. The security men were nicest. Helped me re-park my car and were generally polite.
Anyway I touched the dresses and tops...40k, 35k, 46K...etc... Odiegwu!!!

I could have picked any.. really... if it suited the purpose cos Madam Event Planner told me she will pay so who am I to not align...but nothing worked.

Moved on to the shop by Mobil. I walked,  cos traffic was a mess with fuel queues and all (GMB save us oh)...the sales girl there was nice.
Nothing that was my size interested me...show back, show leg, show something. The things I liked were not my size and I learnt some secrets in that shop. ..Apparently people rent dresses so don't kill yourself and go and be buying million dollar designer dresses to attend events and keep up with the Kardashians when you can just rent a dress and pay for drycleaning.

So I moved on to my current domain...Festac...zilch!
Even tried a bridal shop ....Nope...either the dresses were indecent or not my size or too motherly...finally got to Lagos Island oh....by the time I crawled by 3 shops I found the perfect dress...My size, covers my assets and most importantly I can wear it again and again.

Compromised a bit on the size of the ball of the gown though.

The event was a blast. Photos loading soon.

Lesson learnt: Loose weight again oh Chigo.
Secondly...be friendly to designers..they can hook you up!!