ʻO nā mea kūʻai makemake e kāʻili iā Margaret Lesher's Designer Wardrobe / Late Heiress i uku ʻia he $1 miliona no nā lole.

ʻOi loa i ka wā e kūʻai aku ai i nā ʻaʻahu o ka mea hoʻoilina nūpepa hope loa ʻo Margaret Lesher, i make i ka makahiki i hala.

ʻO nā lole a me nā kāmaʻa hoʻolālā o ka socialite, nā mea nani a me nā mea pono - i kūʻai ʻia he $1 miliona - ke kūʻai ʻia aku nei no ka hapakolu o ko lākou kumu kūʻai kumu ma ke ʻano he ʻāpana o ka hoʻoponopono ʻana i kāna waiwai.

ʻO Labels ka lawelawe ʻana i ke kūʻai aku, kahi hale kūʻai liʻiliʻi ʻo Walnut Creek e mālama ana i nā wahine i hiki ke kūʻai aku i ka haute couture akā ua lawa ka noʻonoʻo e mahalo i kahi kūʻai maikaʻi.

I nehinei, ʻoiai ua hoʻoweliweli ʻia nā ao ua, ua huli ʻia nā wahine mai nā wahi a puni o Bay Area no ka manawa kūpono e loaʻa mua i ke kūʻai aku, e hoʻomau ʻia no nā mahina ʻeono e hiki mai ana.

ʻO ka hele ʻana i loko o ka hale kūʻai ka poʻe hoihoi - ʻo ka poʻe i makemake e ʻike i ke ʻano o ka ʻaʻahu o ka wahine waiwai - a me nā mea koʻikoʻi - ʻo nā mea kūʻai i hiki ʻole ke hoʻopuka koke i kā lākou kāleka hōʻaiʻē.

ʻO nā mea kūʻai i loaʻa i nā kono i kahi hanana "pre-sale ma mua o ka hōʻea ʻana o ka lehulehu". I ko lākou mākaʻikaʻi ʻana ma nā ʻāpana o Chanel, Valentino, Versace, Oscar de la Renta a me Mary McFadden, a me nā mea ʻē aʻe, ua inu lākou i ka champagne a ʻai i nā meaʻai i mālama ʻia i ka wā e neʻe ana nā mele mai kahi hui jazz hoʻokahi kanaka i ka lewa.

Ma ka hora 4 p.m. Ua wehe ʻia ka hale kūʻai i ka lehulehu akā ma muli o ka lehulehu, ua ʻae ʻia nā mea kūʻai aku e komo i nā ʻāpana liʻiliʻi. ʻO kahi laina o nā wahine pōloli e kau ana ma ka paia o waho. ʻO kekahi poʻe i hiki ke ʻike ma ka puka aniani kīʻaha o ka hale kūʻai kūʻai, ua paʻi lākou i ko lākou mau maka e like me nā keiki e nānā ana ma ka puka aniani o kahi hale kūʻai lole.

"Ke lohi nei mākou a lili mākou i nā mea āpau a mākou i ʻike ai e haʻalele i ka hale kūʻai," wahi a Trisch Kubasek o Martinez.

Ua lanakila ʻo Lynn Hayworth, ka mea nona nā Labels, he 29 makahiki, i ka hoʻokahuli aupuni i kekahi mau mahina i hala aku nei i ka nīnau ʻana o nā kahu o ka waiwai o Lesher he $100 miliona inā makemake ʻo ia e kōkua i ke kūʻai aku ʻana i nā kapa lole, aia ma mua o 1,000 mau lole, 400 nā kāmaʻa, 100 mau ʻeke a me 1,000 mau ʻāpana lole lole.

"Ua hauʻoli wau," wahi a Hayworth, nāna i wehe i kāna hale kūʻai ʻo Newell Avenue i ʻewalu mau mahina i hala. "Nani nā lole -- nā kikoʻī liʻiliʻi a pau, nā pihi liʻiliʻi a pau, ka humuhumu lima - no laila ʻoi aku ka nui o kēia mau ʻāpana e like me ka hana kiʻi ma mua o nā lole." E like me nā wahine he nui, ua loaʻa iā Lesher kahi keʻena - i kāna hihia, nā keʻena - piha i nā lole i nā ʻano nui. Ua holo kāna mai ka 6 a hiki i ka 14.

"Ua loli maoli ʻo ia, ʻaʻole anei?" wahi a Robin West o Walnut Creek.

I kekahi mau hihia, ʻo ka ʻokoʻa ka nui ma muli o ka makemake o nā mea hoʻolālā e hoʻomaloʻo i kā lākou mea kūʻai uku nui.

"ʻO ka nui 6 ma Chanel e like me ka American 8," wahi a Hayworth.

ʻO Karl Welm kekahi o nā kāne liʻiliʻi i huki ʻia i ke kūʻai aku e kāna wahine. I kona hele ʻana me ka hauʻoli ma nā hale kūʻai, kū pono ʻo Welm ma kahi kokoke.

"O ka hana a ke kane he mea haawi dala," wahi a ke kanaka Livermore, me ka paa ana i ke aniani champagne ma kekahi lima a me ka puolo lole o Lesher ma kekahi lima. "A e hewa." ʻElua hola ma hope o ka hōʻea ʻana, haʻalele ʻo Welm me kāna wahine a me $900 mau lole. Ua manaʻo ʻo ia ua maʻalahi ʻo ia - ua hoʻihoʻi ʻo ia i kahi lole Chanel $1800 no ka mea ʻaʻole kūpono.

"He mea hilahila ʻaʻole i kūpono," i ʻōlelo ʻo ia iā ia me ka ʻakaʻaka.

Ua kūʻai ʻo Carolyn Campbell, kahi mea nona ka ʻoihana ʻo Walnut Creek, he $250 ke kumu kūʻai o nā kāhiko lole ʻo Lesher's Chanel. Pīhoihoi ʻo ia, ʻōlelo ʻo ia, i ka nui o nā ʻaʻahu o Lesher.

"Ua ʻike wau iā Margaret, ʻike ʻoe," wahi āna me ka leo haʻahaʻa. "Ua hele mākou i ka niho hoʻokahi. A ʻo ka mea ʻakaʻaka, ʻo ka Levi ʻeleʻele a me ka pālule keʻokeʻo wale nō kāna e ʻaʻahu ai. E lawe ʻia a kūʻai ʻia nā pūnāwai puna a me nā lole komohana ma hope o Ianuali.

Ua hāʻule ka nui o nā mea i loko o ke kumukūʻai kūʻai mai $200 a i $2,000. Ma mua, he $10,000 ke kumu kūʻai o kekahi.

Ua make ʻo Lesher i loko o ka loko ʻo Arizona ma Mei 1997 i ka wā o kahi huakaʻi hoʻomoana me T.C. ʻO Thorstenson, āna i male ai ma hope o ka make ʻana o kāna kāne lua, ʻo ka mea hoʻopuka Contra Costa Times ʻo Dean Lesher.

He ʻono ko ka hoʻoilina nūpepa i nā waihoʻoluʻu ʻālohilohi, nā peʻa a me nā sequins, ka hulu a me ka hulu. ʻO kona ʻaʻahu ʻaʻahu mai nā lole ʻoihana conservative a hiki i nā mea ʻokoʻa. ʻO ka hiʻohiʻona: ʻehā mau lole hulu ostrich like ʻole i ka ʻulaʻula, ka pī-'ōmaʻomaʻo, ka fuchsia a me ke keʻokeʻo. Me nā pāpale kūlike.

ʻO ka makemake o ka poʻe kūʻai i ka mea a lākou i ʻike ai ma muli o ko lākou ʻono. Nui ka poʻe i hauʻoli i ke koho ʻana o Lesher i nā lole. Ua ʻike nā poʻe ʻē aʻe he mea liʻiliʻi.

"ʻO koʻu manaʻo mua i koʻu hele ʻana ma ʻaneʻi ʻo ia, 'he ʻono maikaʻi kēia wahine," wahi a West.

ʻAʻole naʻe ia i hoʻōki iā ia mai ka hele ʻana i waho o ka hale kūʻai me kekahi o nā ʻaʻahu huluhulu o Lesher.