My Pasar Mayestik experience

So my mitoni is around the corner and i think all preparation are almost done, thanks to my very helpful in laws and parents.

Hehehe i guess all four parents are just so excited because junior will be their first grandchild.

Even so, hubby and i still need to do one thing on our own: making our own matching outfit, traditional javanese kebaya for me and the sorjan for him.

We cant afford trips to go back and forth to Jogja, so we decided to just buy the fabric and make the outfit here.

I choice the infamous Pasar Mayestik after years of blog walking about Kebaya fabric. It is famous for its wide price ranges and choices.

Last week on Saturday morning at around 8.30 a.m, we drove there. Thankfully the traffic was still okay. But the parking was not 😞😞

When I arrived there, I was a lil surprised. I thought I will be looking for fabric in a mall building, like in Tanah Abang or Thamrin City, but I wasn’t.

Apparently all the famous fabric stores I read on the blogs, like Fancy and Mumbay, are located outside the center big building. So this pregnant lady had to walk around the market area with all the pollution and heat (both from the sun and the cars) for the fabric.

Usually, sorjan is made from fabric with big flowers pattern on it, which was ssooo hard to find there. I went from the famous stores to random stores to look for it, still no right flowery fabric.

Until I saw the Silk Route. I learned from many blogs that it was famous and quite expensive (I had very very small budget of Rp 200,000 - 300,000 for 4-5 meters of fabric). The store looks more luxurious than other store, so I didn’t feel like going in…considering my budget. But hubby said what’s the harm in looking.

And thank you hubby for that 😍😍😍

Who knew the store had the fabric I wanted and the price was in my budget.

We bought 4 meters of fabric, 2 for my Kebaya and 2 for his sorjan, for Rp 260,000. And then we went back to the big center building to look for (cheap) designer/seamstress which scattered in the second and third floor of the building.

After super quick scheming through the floor, I saw this store which had many sewing machines and workers, too many that they took over some spaces outside the store. The name of the store was Elegant.

I chatted with a lady there who I believe was the owner. Loved the price and quick processing time, and I decided to just make my Kebaya there.

I spent Rp 250,000 for Kebaya kutu baru that was scheduled to be done within one week. Awesome!!

As for hubby, we decided to send his fabric to jogja and make his sorjan there. Simply because we didn’t see any sorjan sample in the Mayestik and, even with the additional shipping cost, the price in jogja would still be cheaper (I believed he said around Rp 90,000 - 150,000). Besides, he didn’t need specific measurements as I did with my growing belly.