W♥C Impression (ducks & covers)
Monday September 27, 2010 
I have a confession to make.
My W♥C love took a real hit on my trip.
It has nothing to do with their clothes, or adorableness or even lovely Chinatsu. It’s… THEIR LACK OF STOCK!
I went to all 3 Tokyo stores.
Yes, Shibuya 109’s, WEGO’s, and the one in Lumine Est and all 3 were major disappointment stock-wise. I suppose it’s my own fault. I had this (now apparent unrealistic) expectation that, unlike the webstore, the actual stores would have more of their newer items IN STOCK.
But sadly it wasn’t the case. And even worse, all 3 stores were basically identical in what they DID have.
I must have hit them at a really DEAD week.
A sell off before autumn item arrivals.
I checked their site when I got home & sure enough they barely updated during the entire time I was there except for this monster green suit, that I actually DID see on my second trip to the Lumine store later in the trip hoping they had more items come in.
They had many of their great original staples which was good because I really wanted the shorts & petticoat skirts. But they lacked nearly anything new! Maybe they were all trying to push the rest of their summer stock sale? I dunno~~ 1/2 the store (which calling micro-sized would be generous) were older t-shirts and skirts at 50% off. GREAT! I got the jacket & a black skirt on sale!
But none of the new tanks, tees, cardis, or even new accessories I really wanted!
No socks, frames, leopard sneakers… shit, NO sneakers at all!
Nor their lace heels both of which I was dying to buy.
It’s like when you happen to have a really bad experience with a food you like. You just happen to have gotten sick the night of eating said food and barfed it up so now every time you smell it, it makes you nauseous but it doesn’t mean the food isn’t good it’s just linked in your brain with unpleasantness.
Well, that’s a harsher than needed analogy, hahahaaaa!
But you know, I’m not saying they’re bad & you shouldn’t like them or that I no longer like them myself even, never, but that.. just now I pause when I find myself wanting to pine for their clothes… because of the disappointment I felt with all 3 stores :(
I’m sure that feeling will pass eventually? I dunno~~ but that’s OK :D
Anyway~~ :eep: :eep: :smallcry:
The WEGO store was the biggest of the three. And since it IS WEGO the “W♥C” store carried a bunch of extra collab/refurb’ed tops. But… I really wanted something more iconic W♥C so I passed. They all sorta had that vintage WEGO feel to them only with a higher price tag than the other WEGO items.
Cool thing about WEGO was they had the W♥C purikura there! Me and my friend took some after I perused the W♥C section and returned with bupkis
OK, so I’ll blab about my first visit to the store~ It was the first clothing store I darted to on my trip! Seriously, because I knew I’d spend (thought I’d spend) the most money there!
My first experience with a W♥C staffer didn’t go as well as planned either. I’ll just describe it. Because I’m bored with nothing to do, LOL (well, THAT’s a lie! I’m drowning in work/tasks/errands.)
First visit wasn’t so disappointing because they had many of the items I still wanted and I figured the other 2 stores would have more choices (lol, fail, ignorance is bliss!)
I picked up a bunch of things to try on. A staffer approached and asked if she could take them. I had practice saying things like “May I try this on? I’d like this one please, May I see that item? What would you suggest?” and so on, so I asked if I could try them on. :cutesy: She stared blankly at me. I figured I had failed my Japanese (despite practicing on my friend first) and asked again. Again no response. So thankfully that night my friend was with me. I called her over. She then told the staffer I’d like to try these on. Blank staring commenced! Then it seemed she finally understood after more explaining and she took the clothes aside. We figured she was waiting for me to get in the change rooms (which we were standing right next to) LOL, I feel bad saying this but, this girl was kinda dense! HAAHAA! It took a couple of tries to get her to realize I wanted to try it on FIRST. She was already ringing it all up! :
So whatevs, whatevs, I try on a ton of stuff. I put aside 2 skirts, shorts, jeans, jacket, boots, and some accessories to buy. I LOVED the white dress I tried on but decided not to get it because I was planning on other W♥C store stops too. Glad I waited because I found one at WEGO for WAY cheaper that looks nearly exact! Haahaa. :bow:
I really loved the blue pinstripe shirt too and I had planned on getting it, and it even fit great! But,.. but… the buttons are impossible!! The staffer started unbuttoning it for me and even SHE couldn’t get it to UN-button! She got really embarrassed and ran behind the counter. Eventually she gave up and my friend took over and finally got all the buttons open! I then, of course, had to re-button it to try it on and it was IMPOSSIBLE to get it back off. Bananas do NOT make a good button shape.
Everything was great until 2 days later when I went through my purchases in my room. Yea, 2 days because I was crazy sick remember? And I noticed she didn’t include the shorts or jeans I had wanted to buy. I picked the shorts up later on in my trip of course. :) Passed on the jeans and figured fate didn’t want me to have them or something, haha.
The other stores’ staffers weren’t so… um… errrrrr daydreaming? LOL, I dunno. The girl was super sweet just not very focused I guess, haahaaaaaa! The other staffers had no problem understanding me and were super helpful. :)
Though the first girl I think knew she was being a bit scattered brained. She asked me which W♥C bag I wanted and in the end she was SUPER sweet and let me pick the 2 large patterned bags THEN said “they’ll get dirty” and gave me 2 extras of each of the large patterned bags again inside the bags so they’d be clean! AWE~~~ that was really, really sweet and totally made my experience OK in the end
I wish I had gotten more but I kept holding off thinking if I just go back 1 more time they’ll have the cardigans, made in WC tee, or sweatshirt I really really wanted… :(
Now I see their stores all stock and I’m just like “suuuure! You’re stocked now but the second I get on a plane & fly to you my bad luck will have you cleared out to all the 50% off crap no one wants!”
LOL, bitter-much? You know it, hahahahahahahaha!
So that’s it! I’m just a cursed soul really. I know others have super wonderful luck, but not me, haahaa. It’s OK, I’m used to it at this point :)
Here’s to BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME!
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Be Back Monday! (or something)
Thursday September 23, 2010
I’m heading off to an ocean view tonight! :skipping: Just for a long weekend. Usually it’s still hot this time of year there but freak 2010 weather has it hotter in the city than on the beach right now. :supercry: Looks like 80’s. It’s fine. Wasn’t planning to tan anyway. I JUST WANT TO NAP. :deadtired: Seriously, I need to catch up on sleep badly!! So I packed nothing but hobo clothes, haahaa. I’m gonna be sooooooo comfy all weekend and eating boardwalk fries and seafood! Saying good-bye to summer~~~ :snot:
Right now I’m listening to Oktoberfest music on TV from Music Choice, haahaa. I do it every year. :good: :celebrate:
There’s actually a couple of “Oktoberfest” celebrations :star2: in the surrounding cities. One in particular is pretty good *_* but isn’t for another 2 weeks :rubeyes: But it should be cooler by then anyway and feel more autumn-like. :twinklepink: Maybe even the leaves will start changing by then!! It’s currently 88°F out right now :cfaha2:
I also just got a Yesstyle order in though I thought I’d post up! :blushingcute::twinklepink: I ordered these either right before my trip or right when I got back. I forget. :smallcry:
Anyways, they’re mostly monotones for fall!! :blushingcute: And I snagged some of YS’s remaining Mellish makeup on sale. They’re sold out now :(. :facecry: They did have a bunch of the lip glosses & more blushes before I ordered too~ :ohyeslovely:
:star2: Dolman-Sleeve Ruffle Top
:star2: Cropped Stripe T-Shirt
That’s it! :puup: I’ll be back next week with some final Tokyo photos + posts. :faceaha: Hoping that after this weekend things will begin to settle a bit and I’ll feel ready for the upcoming holiday seasons! :) I don’t have any trips planned again until Thanksgiving. Probably going to go visit our families then instead of going for Christmas like we usually do. :good: OK, :okicon: bye~bye~ :kyaaface:
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