I have a sneak­ing sus­pi­cion the Masked Barfly has a few Manda­to­ry suits in his wardrobe.

And now the Cuba St store is cel­e­brat­ing a spe­cial birth­day — 15 years in busi­ness!!!

Design­ers Clare Bow­den and Fiona Edwards first met while train­ing in fash­ion and fash­ion tex­tiles at Welling­ton Poly­tech­nic. Now they have a league of well dressed fans which includes All Blacks, musos, hos­pi­tal­i­ty types, artists, the­atre peeps and more.

They’ve launched a new web­site and there’s a $1500 wardrobe to be won. All you have to do is add a pic­ture of your­self sport­ing your Manda­to­ry gears to the online album or on their face­book page. Easy as.