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  • That Time I Disgraced Myself At A Fashion Boutique

    That Time I Disgraced Myself At A Fashion Boutique

    So a few days after I got paid I was feeling like a boss.

    Biggest babe!

    And I decided that I was going to treat myself to a shopping spree.

    Because I’ve got money!

    So I walked into a store that I had admired from afar with confidence and pride.

    Swaggiest baby girl in the nation!

    I looked at the prices of one or two things and realised that I could really go on a spree.

    YESSSS!!

    So I picked up about 12 items and then went to the dressing room to do my own personal fashion show.

    I was looking too fabulous.

    Because I’m such a hottie almost all the clothes fit me really well.

    I mean what did you expect.

    When I came out I caught 2 of the sales girl giving me a side eye.

    Ahn ahn?

    I started to get the vibe that they felt their shop was too good for me.

    Ok. Very what? Very good

    I knew I was going to show them.

    Because shame to bad people!

    So I carried my items with me and cat-walked again to the till.

    Because I’m that chick!

    The sales girl started checking out the clothes and that’s where my problem started.

    Sigh!

    All of a sudden I started seeing big big numbers on the till.

    Eh!

    Apparently the first outfit I had picked was from the 70% off sales rack.

    Ah!

    As I figured this out the number on the till was still rising.

    Oh my God!

    So I started forming like there were things I didn’t notice about the clothes.

    Yes oh!

    First I said I wanted to know if they had one dress in a different colour.

    “Maybe aquamarine fondant yellow or burnt iced red.”

    Then I said one suit had an odd fit.

    “The trousers are a bit too snug around my hips.”

    Then I said one skirt was too short.

    “I just don’t want to be indecent.”

    Meanwhile the other sales girls were looking at me like:

    What a shame!

    I ignored them and continued my nonsense till I had reduced my items to two..

    Yup!

    And the only reason I didn’t go down to one was so I wouldn’t be such a blatant cheapskate.

    Before those sales girls start laughing at me.

    So I happily handed over my card only for it to be declined!

    Hay God!

    They tried again, and the same thing happened.

    Why me?

    I just had to mumble excuses and run out of there with whatever shame I had left.

    Very fast!

    And till date I have not been able to go back into that store!

    Because once bitten, twice shy.
  • 12 Things You’ll Understand If You’ve Ever Gone Shopping At A Nigerian ‘Boutique’

    12 Things You’ll Understand If You’ve Ever Gone Shopping At A Nigerian ‘Boutique’

    1. How they are named:

    Na wa.

    2. You: “I’m looking for a blue shirt”. Them: “This yellow shirt will fit you more.”

    Are you mad?

    3. When they wash and hang okrika for you to buy.

    Better leave this place.

    4. When they add the price for their AC and transport on each cloth.

    See me see trouble.

    5. You, when you hear their prices.

    Chai!

    6. When you see the real price of what you bought somewhere else.

    Jehovah!

    7. Nigerian boutiques and blue fluorescent.

    All of them.

    8. When whatever you buy is always finer in the boutique.

    The boutique light jazz.

    9. When the only shoes they know how to sell are loafers.

    Ugh!

    10. When they are selling Louis Vuitton and Gucci bags for “ten thazand”.

    See this one.

    11. Your face, when they swear it is original.

    I’ve heard.

    12. This struggle:

  • The Complete Guide To Being An Instagram Vendor

    The Complete Guide To Being An Instagram Vendor

    1. Never put the price of your product on your Instagram page.

    Because you just want to stress your customers and make them “mystified” at the same time.

    2. Instagram vendors and “add us on Whatsapp for price details”.

    Because you’re probably scared of letting the world know that your product is overpriced.

    3. Even if it’s just clothes you sell, put stylist and personal shopper in your bio so we know it’s real.

    Even though you don’t know the meaning of those words.

    4. Download other people’s pictures, write your name all over it (make it really ugly) and call it your own.

    It’s not stealing, it’s borrowing for advertisement.

    5. When people are actually interested in buying from you, delay them for three days before ‘getting back to them’.

    You can’t appear too desperate to sell, they’re kuku the ones disturbing you.

    6. Be rude to your customers when they dare ask questions about what they want to buy from you.

    Customers don’t deserve any respect and your Instagram market has taken away your home training.

    7. Never deliver on time to customers, wait for the 2nd coming of Jesus before giving them what they bought.

    Because they don’t really need it.

    8. Never apologise for delaying delivery.

    Being rude is one thing you’re really good at.

    9. If their wahala is too much, switch your phones off and block them on Instagram.

    They’ll be alright jare.

    10. All your products must be of lesser quality than you promised.

    You’re full of surprises like that.

    11. When people complain about the quality, ask them to check their surroundings.

    The real thing you sold to them must have fallen off, you don’t sell “fake”. Featured image via: Instagram