/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Yesterday I went to an art and vintage popup show in my city wearing pic related. One of the vendors (who looked to be mid-to-late twenties) commented that she liked my dress, and who was the designer? I thanked her and said that it was a brand called Souffle Song, from I thought Korea (I know it’s Chinese now, all I remembered at the time was it wasn’t a Japanese brand, but this mistake makes it ten times funnier). The girl looked thoughtful and said something like “hm...Souffle Song...I’ll have to look it up” and then all of a sudden her demeanor changed completely. “Oh, did you say Souffle Song??? From KOREA???? I lived in Korea for two years and she was my neighbor!!! I was in a lot of her fashion shows and have pretty much everything she’s ever designed!!!!”

I was really taken aback by this painfully obvious level of bullshit and sort of froze and stammered out that this was only her second release. The girl paused and you could literally see her trying to fudge her way out of this and just said “oh.” but then kept going and saying “I know but she made a bunch of other stuff and I have lots of KOREAN FASHION here and some of it was made by her! I don’t have anything today but I obviously brought stuff back from KOREA to sell since I LIVED THERE and sometimes she makes me stuff to sell too! It’d fit your style perfectly so take a look around!!!” I did and it was all standard American vintage fare. After I took a brief look around I just left. It wasn’t until after I texted my friend about it and we had a laugh that I remembered that the package had shipped from China, not Korea.

I wish I’d had the composure and gall to call her out on her bullshit in the moment. I have no idea how she thought she’d be believed.This lady was like fucking 25 and not only lied about herself but about her business as well, all to try and impress a random stranger whose dress she liked. So bizarre.