The Dictator: on style, she rules
You have lots of different, trustworthy options right here in Hong Kong. If you are truly as affluent and patrician as you try so strenuously to appear, then you must already have a local, old-style jeweller for simple gold and gemstone pieces. The work should only take a few days and cost about HK$1,000. Honest, worthy places exist all over town, and they will always examine and test the stones in front of you and provide a receipt. Be extremely specific about what work you do or don't want done.
Are you really looking for what they call "luxury leisure wear evoking the 1970s and European holidays"? Or is it just a status thing? The only occasions on which I answer these keeping-up-with-the-Joneses queries are when the clothes warrant attention. And these do. Priced from about HK$780 to HK$3,260, Toteme's recently launched capsule collection lives up to the hype.
It includes luxurious cashmere and micro-modal tees and tanks, silk or fine linen trousers and shorts, and polos made of super-fine pique. Breezy knit dresses, easy blouses, light cashmere pullovers and versatile silk camisoles round out the collection in a neutral palette of white, cream, beige and black, with bright coral as the highlight colour.
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