Last night, I attended the Sassy City Chicks event at the Petersen Automotive Museum.
Since 2001, The Sassy City Chicks brand offers shopping events geared towards a sophisticated cosmopolitan female audience of 21-45 years in search of a ‘girls night out’ experience through beauty, fashion and style.
Sassy City Chicks offers shoppers great perks such as shopping show specials,complimentary spa services (on a first-come-first-served basis) cocktail sampling (2 drink tickets per shopper) and giveaways.
I’ve been going to these events for a few years now with my friend Candice, but we haven’t been for a while (this is the last one we attended). But when a PR company invited me to attend, I emailed Candice and we made plans to meet, because…gift bag!
This was our swag from the Sassy City Chicks event:
Now, I know this sounds ungrateful, but really? A sample of Suave Styling Oil? An entire bottle costs $6. If I’d had to pay $10 for my ticket, I would have been pissed quite disappointed.
Okay, admission did include two cocktails:
Since I’m cutting with Body Beast this week, I abstained, but Candice assures me they were tasty.
I felt so sorry for the vendors at this show, because I’ve never seen so few women at one of these events. There was a busy cupcake vendor, but the event was otherwise lacking in the vibe and energy that it used to have.
Another thing that bothered me about this was the no-men rule. First, I don’t know how that’s even legal; and second, the security guards, bartenders, and vendors definitely included men, so why couldn’t there be male guests? I suspect the rule comes from the museum – after all, an event ticket is cheaper than museum admission of $15. The last time we were there, I noticed that a lot of women had brought their partners who loitered at the car displays.
Candice and I just circled and circled for a while (my Fitbit buzzed to let me know I’d hit 15k steps for the day), then we popped over to the museum displays.
I guess Kia and DC comics has a partnership, so the superheros all now drive fuel-efficient cars.
A couple of young women next to us were impressed with this, the “original” Batmobile.
Sigh.
I think we spent about half an hour here. It took me longer to get there than the time we spent inside. I don’t think we will be attending one of these events again. This time I mean it! Unless we’re comped again, and after this blog post I just can’t see that happening.
Have you ever been to one of these events? You knew the original Batmobile was from 1966, right?!
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As a 21 year old who has never watched the original Batman…I could look at that and clearly tell that car looks too new to be the original lol. Hopefully the cocktails weren’t watered down.
Thank you! I was kind of gobsmacked!
I’ve never seen an episode of the original Batman but I don’t think I’d mistake that car as the original Batmobile car or design. I mean, even Batman and Robin’s suits were really different in the original!
Last year, I went on a hike to the Hollywood sign and made a pit stop at the Bronson caves where the tv crews used to take video of the batmobile leaving the lair. It’s not a very remarkable location but it is a little bit nostalgic for some folks.
Oh I didn’t know about that! I might head on over. Thanks for the tip!
Oh dear, sounds like its time they gave it up as a bad job.
My friend suspects that someone quit and wasn’t replaced. She might be right!
Oh dear sounds like a bit of a poor night – the blurb sounded so good too! At least you didn’t waste your money a catch up with a friend around cool cars not too bad!
You’re totally right – it was not a wasted evening.
This makes me sad that I live in the middle of nowhere….Sorry it had little hiccups, but you still made it a good night!
Maybe you could start something!