First off I want to thank you all for the amazing comments giving me advice over the weekend on what I should wear to the Emmys. I read every single comment! So much good fashion advice. I feel so lucky…like I had thousands of girlfriends here with me helping me to decide.
So as you know the fashion debate had to do with whether I should wear a one shoulder Carlos Miele I bought in Paris or a more subdued black Badgley Mischka gown I’ve had for years to the 63rd annual Emmy Awards show and parties.
Most of you overwhelmingly voted for the Carlos Miele. It was not my first choice but you made so many compelling arguments for it, that I actually decided to follow your advice and wear the dress.
On Sunday, at just after 2p, I put on the Carlos Miele and then I was going to head out of my hotel room to meet our group for our limo ride over to the Emmy Awards. The dress fit. It looked great. I was facing my fashion fears, following your sage advice, and trying something new. As I opened the hotel room door, I felt a rush of air at my side and I thought…that’s strange…where’s that air coming from and why is this dress so loose.
Well my luck had it that just as I was running out of the door, all dressed up with somewhere interesting to go, I of all things was having a major wardrobe malfunction!
I looked down and the long zipper up the side of the dress had broken and was wide open. I know…I know…unbelievable. It just so happens, a friend’s daughter who was attending the awards show too(lucky girl) had stopped by my room to check out my dress options and to get a little wardrobe help herself and as we were running out of the door this zipper thing happened!
I tried to unzip the dress but the zipper was caught at the top and split wide open down the side. I tugged and pulled and realized I was stuck in a fashion nightmare…stuck in a sparkling one should dress with the side split open…moments before my limousine ride was leaving for the Emmy Awards.
Oy.
That is when I screamed, “I’m stuck! I’m stuck in this dress!” I started to pant and perspire and panic frankly. The 15 year old girl ran over and started tugging on the zipper and she couldn’t get it off either. She kind of looked at me the way a 15 year old with wide eyed disbelief thinking I’m sure, “Uh oh, she’s in trouble”. That is when the 15 year old figured out desperate times would call for desperate measures…and she said, “I know. The scissors.”
There…that’s what all my fretting and planning had come down to…a pair of scissors, a new dress and a ticking time clock…
I bravely said “Do it”…and with a tug and a pull and the loudest snip I’ve ever heard…I was literally cut out of my sparkling Carlos Miele dress.
Yup.
So, I must say, I did feel quite unlucky and lucky at the same time…because there was the Badgley Mischka, still on its hanger and ready for business.
With not a moment to spare and with the Carlos Miele in a heap on the floor, I jumped into the Badgley Mischka and ran out of the door.
There you have it…there is a life lesson somewhere here in this Emmy dress story I think…
Could the lesson be…”Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket”…or “Be resourceful”…or “The only thing you can count on in life is change”…or “Never say never”…or “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry…”…
I don’t know what the lesson was…all I know is that when faced with this little non-dilemma dilemma, there was no time to think, action was needed quickly and I was forced deal with the situation and move on…
So the default winner was…the Badgley Mischka…in this case the runner up did win…so maybe this is a story about runner ups and coming in second? Something like you never know when the winner will not be able to perform his/her duties and when you might have to step up to the plate and fill in!
Anyhoooo…the bottom line is I wore the Badgley Mischka after all.
I again thank you so much for your help. You are so awesome and sweet to weigh in! Your comments were amazing. I appreciate the kind support!
Happy Wednesday.
xo
Coco
P.S. Didn’t have time to pull together a video design guide. I will do one over the weekend taking you inside the Emmys and all of the parties! You can see it how I saw it…walking down the red carpet and all! If you are interested even…
P.P.S. The Emmys was so much fun this year! Can’t wait to share a few details with you.
OMG! That is just unbeleivable!!
Thank God it happened before everything started and you could fix it with a dress change.
I´m sure you´re still sweating…..
You are hilarious. “…because there was the Badgley Mischka, still on its hanger and ready for business.”
Thank goodness for that! I also appreciated your Dr. Seussy “With not a moment to spare and with the Carlos Miele in a heap on the floor, I jumped into the Badgley Mischka and ran out of the door.” Glad the crisis was averted and that you had a ball at the ball!
On the limo ride over you should’ve sewn up the zipper. I only know of this trick because the same thing happened to me as a bridesmaid on my way to a wedding!
Maybe the lesson was to follow your own instincts — we usually know what’s best for ourselves if we listen to the inner voice.
The same thing happened to me on the way to an awards dinner, except I had no alternate outfit. I ended up at the nearest mall desperately trying to find something suitable. Also, I think the store clerk was embarrassed as I unveiled nearly all “my goods” in order for her to cut the tags off. Ugh!
This happened to me for a wedding. I had ordered the dress via the bride remotely – she was living in Arizona and I was in San Francisco. I got the dress on but it was a tight squeeze around my ribs (OF COURSE it wasn’t too big). Then, the zipper got stuck – couldn’t get it all the way up and I couldn’t get it down. And, since we all had matching dresses I had no options! I ended up walking down the aisle with it not zipped all the way up! Glamorous right? Sigh….:) Glad your situation turned out so much better! Do we get to see pics??
Zut Alors! That is horrible. At least you know that the CM looked good on you and you can wear it for another event (once the zipper is replaced). Funny how just “regular old clothes” rarely break our hearts as much as the ones for very important events.
So Coco, with your ingenuity and your sewing company, I am guessing you will make a pillow out of that beautiful dress you didn’t wear to the Emmys. Well, that’s what I would do with it at this point! Fun story. -cindy in Idaho
(By the way, the word verification that I had to copy to prove my computer is from my url is a take off on a bar word. I have a great sense of humor though so it just made me laugh! I wouldn’t dare retype it on this though. You might want to determine how this happens, I think it’s random letters.)from cindyleeboo@yahoo.com