31/03/2023
Brand Story, hahhahaha
Rita's Chinese Style One-stop Store was set in 2014, when I was still young, hahaha
When I was a little girl, about 6-8 yrs old, my first approach to ancient chinese costumes was from drama, I was obsessed with these beauutiful costumes, hair styles and hair accessories.
Every morning when I woke up, the first thing I did is to stand in front of my mother's old small traditional makeup mirror and start to make vintage hair styles myself. I had long hair and I made into various different hair styles, some imitated from dramas, most of them were original thinkings of myself, it took me more than one hour, and then I went through my small village, to the most crowded places, all young girls and women started to look at my hairstyle and laugh out. They said, ooo, here comes Jinjin, with her princess-looking hair style, like an elf.
I didn't have costumes, I used to make them with my old clothes, collecting all wasted yarn, chiffon clothing pieces all around the village, dyed them to rose, red color, and made them to costumes with needle and threads, dressed them up, and made myself looking like fairy or swordlady, with my hairstyles, and put on a bamboo hat, took a "sword" stick in my hand --- I AM the Queen of the world 😁😁, I AM ready to hit any bad guy in JiangHu.
Then I grow up, study, graduate, work, marry, get pregnant, have kids, this dream always stays in my heart, one day, I opened this store, and started to sell these weired (but gorgeous) things for me. Gradually, I know how to make them with my own hands. Without expectation of making money, this store last more than 10 years (and will last all my life until I cannot work), and have gathered a bunch of super good sweet friends from all over the world, with same likings and hobby.
Here I know Shannon Gibbons, my soul sister, hahahhaa.
At first, I thought she is an American-Chinese, coz her aliexpress photo looks like Chinese, and she is very very polite and bit shy, same as me. But when we get closer, I found her a native American, OMG, actually, I am bit upset at first time (I haven't made friends with foreigners before), but later, nothing changed, we still talk about good and bad dramas, pretty actress and handsome actors, the soul-loved costumes and accessories. When we come across a good drama, we share to each other the first time. And vow, one day we found we have the same dream of swordlady, she likes blue and I like red!!! We become Blue & Red Sword Sisters!!
Our New Group sets up 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Life is so fun and full of surprises. 😁😁😁😁