I don’t Understand why…
May 14, 2008 by dryxanne
…Batik should be so darn expensive..!!
I mean, just because it’s the IT DRESS now, just because Dian Sastro wore it thus made it so popular for youngsters, and other "just becauses", it doesn’t mean that batik has to be so expensive.
C’mon…2 months ago, batik was not even worn, or seen, publicly everywhere like it is today. And these days, everybody, females especially, seems to be in the race of showing-off wearing batik. While TELKOM, and some other public service governmental departments, already makes it official to wear batik on Fridays.
It seems like, Indonesians are such fashion victims, such easy targets. I doubt that in like 3 or 4 months, batik will still be as popular as it is now. If we want to preserve batik, or make it into our common wear, or national pride, then where the hell have we been since decades ago? Why now?
It’s not that I don’t like batik. Or that I don’t appreciate it. No, I like it alright, I love the design, I like the cool soft feeling when I wore it for daily or for nightie. It’s just that, being so popular now and commercialized, make it enough reasons for all those sellers to put ridiculous price just because "It’s a happening style right now!".
Which make it, ridiculously unaffordable for people like me!
I mean, ok there may be a lot of other batik stuff out there with reasonable price, but why it has to be IDR 11.5 Million for a piece of floor-length batik gown? Yup, you didn’t read it wrong. It is IDR 11.500.000, and you can find it in ALLURE boutique at Senayan City.
Talking about taking chances, eh?
Ok, I did find several nice pieces of batik in Taman Anggrek Mall in a boutique called MONACO (girls, you should check it out…), with reasonable prices (ranging between IDR 145 K - 250 K). But alas, my too big upper arms couldn’t fit well into the short sleeves, although the body part was very loose…So I had to kiss bye-bye to the nice golden colored red printed batik top.
Anyway…
I would love to find a knee-length light batik gown for a daily office wear, with a reasonable price, and sleeves that fit my huge arms. Maybe I should check out all those ITCs…
*Sigh…*
