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Dress for Suc­cess Welling­ton Autumn Cloth­ing Sale

On this week »> Wed 16 & Thu 17, 11.30am — 6pm each day

Hel­lo fel­low bar­gain hunters,

This week is the Dress for Suc­cess Welling­ton Autumn Cloth­ing Sale. If you fan­cy your­self in Karen Walk­er but think you can’t afford it — Dress for Suc­cess Welling­ton has the answer!

We have some amaz­ing labels for sale at rock-bot­tom prices. You and your mates can scoop up bar­gains from design­ers includ­ing Karen Walk­er, Trelise Coop­er, Zambe­si, Wal­lace Rose, Veron­i­ca Maine, World and even Ver­sace. Of course there will also be lots of chain-store sta­ples that your wardrobe can’t do with­out!

Noth­ing is above $50, with most items as low as $5 for tops, $10 for skirts and suits at around $25.

The sale helps us clear out items that are not suit­able as inter­view or work wear, and clears space for incom­ing win­ter stock. It also helps raise cash so we can con­tin­ue to pro­vide our much-need­ed ser­vice.

The sale is open to you — my friends, also to our clients, client refer­ral agen­cies and the gen­er­al pub­lic – be in ear­ly to catch a bar­gain from our packed racks! The sale is held at the Dress for Suc­cess Welling­ton Office and Show­room, Ground Floor, 84 Willis Street, Welling­ton.

Please note, we don’t have an eft­pos facil­i­ty, we will be accept­ing cash or cheque sales only.

Please also, pass on the word — spread it round!

Something to get off our chests

If, like many of us, you’re furi­ous about the way many media out­lets treat women, you need to start read­ing the Amer­i­can mag­a­zine Bust. It’s fierce­ly fem­i­nist, but also riffs on craft, cul­ture and fash­ion — in a good way (they use ‘real’ peo­ple for mod­els, of all shapes, sizes and sex­u­al­i­ties etc) In fact, their new issue is the per­fect place to start, because it fea­tures our Welling­to­ni­ans of the Year, the all-con­quer­ing Flight of the Con­chords on one side of its flip cov­er, along with the Welling­ton land­mark-defil­ing Eli­jah Wood.

I rec­om­mend sub­scrib­ing, because this mag­a­zine is real­ly so very very awe­some, but if you just want to give it a go, you can buy it at Vic Books, Mag­a­zz­i­no, and prob­a­bly Uni­ty Books.

Newtown at night with the Newtownista

About half the Welling­ton­ista now call New­town home, so we thought it was about time we did some explor­ing of the area. There­fore, on this com­ing Sat­ur­day, we’re going to be doing a New­town­ista Pub Crawl, and you should come with us!

We’re going to start on Rid­di­ford St down near the zoo around 7.30pm, and work our way back towards town, aim­ing to end up at Amigo’s for tapas. Most of us haven’t been to most of the bars, so we’ll be intend­ing to give them all a go-to, even the dodgy ones — but we may change our minds on the night when we look in their doors.

To come along, either show up in that area at that time, get in con­tact with a cell­phone num­ber so we can text you our progress, or fol­low my twit­ter account as hope­ful­ly I’ll remem­ber to update it as we go along. We’re going to bold­ly go where some peo­ple have gone before, and it should be a jol­ly good time.

Gor­geous pho­to by Dead Pos­sum, yanked from flickr

Post Hump-Day air humps for our favourite things

To cel­e­brate get­ting over Hump Day (Wednes­day), here’s the first in a series of things that the Welling­ton­ista is lov­ing right now. Please feel free to add in your own cur­rent loves in the com­ments sec­tion.

• Good Luck­’s out­door tables and $8 cock­tail menu on Tues­days & Wednes­days; man­go bati­das, rasp­ber­ry caprioskas and plum daiquiris, oh my!
  
• Olive’s ear­ly-bird deal (3 cours­es for $29 if you’re out by 7:30) is pret­ty damned good.
• The lemon-lime sher­bert cock­tail at Superfi­no: sor­bet, limon­cel­lo, Ketel One vod­ka and Fox­ton Fizz Lime.
• The $17 antipas­to plat­ter at Kil­lias in New­town, over­flow­ing with chori­zo, sala­mi, meat­balls, mush­rooms, grilled pep­pers, olives, deli­cious fresh cia­bat­ta, dips and an impres­sive bread­stick struc­ture.
  
• Port Cafe have brought back their sep­a­rate take­away menu, start­ing at $10 for 2 crumbed fish & chips, and get­ting cheap­er as you buy in bulk.