Tag: fashion

Wanted: great T‑shirt designs

wanted - great t-shirt designers

All you bud­ding young clothes design­ers out there should be get­ting what­ev­er it is you use to design clothes ready for The Hini­tia­tive and Welling­ton City Mis­sion T‑Shirt design con­test that kicked off this week.

Open to all Welling­ton high school stu­dents, entries will be judged by a pan­el that includes Welling­ton fash­ion design­er, Robyn Math­ieson, cloth­ing stores Fusion Surf & Skate and Rex Royale, and The Church design com­pa­ny. The first place win­ner takes home $300 in store vouch­ers. Sec­ond, third also get store vouch­ers, but not quite so many. In addi­tion, all four final­ists will have their win­ning designs pro­duced into t‑shirts by The Hini­tia­tive and sold by select­ed stores in Welling­ton to help ben­e­fit Welling­ton City Mis­sion.

Do good, and look good doing it.

More info at the Hini­tia­tive web­site, and here’s a direct link to the design brief. Con­test dead­line is Sat­ur­day 11 August.

Big shoes to fill

Most of the time it’s nice being the tallest female Welling­ton­ista (Martha and Natal­ie may get the col­umn inch­es but I gots the height inch­es), but the trou­ble with being tall is that I need great big plates of meat as feet to sup­port me. And you know what they say about girls with big feet — they need big shoes.

That’s why I’m so excit­ed that Wil­low Shoes — a web­site I’ve been shop­ping from for years since they spe­cialise in shoes size 10 and up — has just opened up a branch in Welling­ton, in my neigh­bour­hood even, at 27 C Wait­oa Road in Hataitai. This is going to be espe­cial­ly handy (or err footy, badoom chish) now that Minx Shoes have moved their fac­to­ry out­let from Waikanae to Ota­ki.

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.