Heart Evangelista’s Sorsogon ukay-ukay dress sends fans gushing
Heart Evangelista unabashedly displayed her latest acquisition from an ukay-ukay in Sorsogon — a fashionable see-through blue dress.
Heart Evangelista unabashedly displayed her latest acquisition from an ukay-ukay in Sorsogon — a fashionable see-through blue dress.
Clothes for only P150 a piece? I’m never shopping retail again.
“If I wake up in dreamland, I shop for my fairy tales,” Shaira said. “When I wake up as myself—well, I just shop for myself.”
The Ukay Queen Shaira Luna has spoken: “It doesn’t matter where you ukay, just dig through.”
I think the first ukay-ukay outlet I encountered was in Baguio some decades ago. Maybe because the bundles consisted mainly of jackets. I remember climbing a low hill or incline to get to them.
Ukay has become respectable. Ukay-ukay has made the middle- and lower-income Filipino look better. All you need is a quick eye and a modicum of good taste. Maybe we’re wearing the discards of other countries but most of us don’t care. Beautiful clothes are beautiful clothes.
While breaking open and consuming mangosteen this morning, I remembered what Cora Alvina used to say about the “junk” that fruits generate, some more than others. For instance, one kilo of mangosteen produces a pile of thick purple peels so disproportionate to the seeds one has consumed.
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