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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.