It’s not my bag, baby!

Pos­ted in the win­dow of a cer­tain shop in Cuba St:

It's not my bag baby! Oh the shame.
I guess he won’t be try­ing that again.

Good hatitude

Do you have a hanker­ing for a hom­burg? Are you bereft of bowl­ers? Is it time to farewell that fad­ing fedora?

Wellington Hatters in Woodward StFear not: Hank Cubitt is bring­ing his unique sar­tori­al style to Wel­ling­ton’s bare­headed masses with the new Wel­ling­ton Hat­ters shop in Wood­ward St. And Hank being Hank, he’s not con­tent to just bring you tra­di­tion­al head­wear, so his offer­ings extend to straw top hats, patch­work tweed cheesecut­ters and feathered felt cre­ations that will cer­tainly help you stand out among the Lamb­ton Quay crowds. It’s not just for the chaps, either, as he also stocks chapeaux for the chapettes.

Now, does any­one have any hints on how to keep them on your head in a Wel­ling­ton north­erly? I once had a very fine Panama that ended up some­where near the Chath­ams.

CRANFIELDS ONLINE

ATTENTION ex-pat Wel­ling­to­ni­ans! Look­ing for the per­fect gift to send to your loved ones back home? Cran­fields – Mer­chants of impor­ted gifts, dec­or­at­ive objects and beau­ti­ful fur­niture, and one of the most inter­est­ing shops in the city (not to men­tion Auck­land & Mel­bourne too) is now online & tak­ing orders from any­where in the world. […]

Open up

Hi all, this is my first post as a Wel­ling­tonista. There’s a slew of new shops, gal­ler­ies and enter­tain­ment ven­ues open­ing at the moment, so I thought I’d start with a quick roundup. The Bartley Nees Gal­lery on the corner of Blair and Wake­field streets is under­go­ing mitos­is and split­ting itself into Tim Nees Gal­lery […]

Kirk’s Sale, now on

Wel­lUrb­an prob­ably sums up the effect of the annu­al Kirk’s Sale best when he writes… Expect worse than usu­al queues of SUVs between Karori and Lamb­ton Quay this morn­ing: the Annu­al Kirks sale is on. From the look of some of the ladies queueing out­side the doors this morn­ing, it could be said that they […]

Places we like to shop & watch outrageous music videos – The Guava Tree

This lunch­time I spent a pleas­ant 20 minutes or so in a new store called The Guava Tree. Not nor­mally a place fre­quen­ted by Wel­ling­tonis­tas, but my interest was piqued by the vast plasma screen observ­able through the shop win­dow play­ing what appeared to Bol­ly­wood movies. I’ve always wanted to see a Bol­ly­wood movie. They […]

Sale Time at Kirkcaldie & Stains!!

A Wel­ling­ton insti­tu­tion, the Kirk’s Sale. OK, it star­ted Monday, but that does­n’t mat­ter. Now is the time to go. By now, the shop­pers are a little less extreme than the 1. Rabid, and 2. Cata­ton­ic zom­bie that they ranged between on Monday morn­ing. Still plenty of bar­gains to be had. The sale ends on […]

Your own personal shopper

I don’t want you to think that it’s the Wel­ling­ton­ist policy to be lazy & recycle anoth­er con­trib­ut­or’s photo… that’s just me… But did you know that Kirk­c­al­dies on Lamb­ton Quay offers a free per­son­al shop­ping ser­vice? We’re con­sid­er­ing tak­ing the concept to the next level: The Wel­ling­ton­ist Com­pli­ment­ary & Com­ple­ment­ary Per­son­al Con­sumer Ser­vice. Your […]