Top 10 Australian fashion blogs
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If you’re interested in finding some great new fashion reading, take a look at my updated list of the Top 10 Australian fashion & shopping blogs.
Archive for January, 2007
This week’s best sales: 29 Jan 2007
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Where to find some great bargains — the sales I take the time to attend.
(This week, we’ve got sales for Sydney, Melbourne and U.S. readers.)
Links for 26th Jan, 2007
My favourite web articles this week:
DIY: Whiten your Teeth with Strawberries
A cheap way to make your pearly whites sparkle.
An oldie but a goodie
SRR raids the dark corners of her wardrobe for some new outfits. Check out the results.
How to avoid expensive sale mistakes
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This time of year, the post-Christmas sales are coming to an end, and stores really want to get rid of the last of this season’s stock to make room for all the new deliveries that are about to arrive.
It sounds like a great time to find bargains… but not everything that’s on sale will be a great buy. If you don’t need it or it isn’t quite right for you, it doesn’t become a bargain just because it’s 90% off the retail price.
If you’ve ever been seduced by the markdown and bought a ‘bargain’ that turned out to be all wrong, you probably don’t want to repeat the experience.
Here’s three types of sale items you can buy with confidence — they’re unlikely to be a bad buy.
Fashion & beauty links for 20th Jan, ‘07
My favourite web articles for the last week:
Credit Controversy
Is it better to pay with cash or a credit card (paid off every month of course)?
Personal Stylist Series, Part 1: Color makes you slimmer
Tips for using colour in your outfits, from a professional stylist. (Not the usual ‘black is slimming’, either!)
The Budget Fashionista’s Second Annual Shopping Survey
Take the survey to help The Budget Fashionista learn more about people’s shopping habits.
Sydney blogger meet-up
The Sydney blogger meet-up last night was a great event. Here’s what some other Sydney bloggers had to say about it:
(If any other bloggers write about the evening, send me an email and I’ll add your link.)
Sample sales: what you need to know
Once upon a time, fashion sample sales were strictly insider events. Now, there are ads for sample sales everywhere… except that a lot of those heavily promoted sales aren’t really sample sales at all. The real sample sales are barely advertised and rarely use the words ’sample sale’ in their ads, so only insiders can tell that they’re sample sales.
Sounds confusing? I’ll cut the confusion by explaining what a real sample sale is, how to spot them, and how to avoid faux sample sales.
(Now with some extra info from Kathleen Fasanella, a clothing manufacturing expert who writes at Fashion Incubator.)
This week’s best sales
There are two types of sales: publicity stunts with barely-worth-bothering discounts, and real-deal clearances that are definitely worth a visit. Making sure you only go to the latter saves a lot of time and effort.
Here’s the sales I’ll be visiting this week:
(Three in Australia and one online for U.S. readers)
New-look Bargain Queen
You might’ve noticed that the site looks a little different now. Don’t panic, it’s still the same Bargain Queen, just re-designed.
I hope you like it!
If you spot anything that looks broken, please email me so I can fix it.
UPDATE: A couple of gremlins got through despite days of testing. Darn computers!
They should all be fixed now. Many thanks to Katie, Dave, Benn, JonK, The Shopping Sherpa and MrBQ for the tip-offs.
PS: If you’re reading this in the newsletter or RSS feed, click here to take a look at the new design.
How to recover from fashion mistakes
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It looked fab, you bought it, you took it home. You put it on to take it out for its public debut and felt… blah. For some reason, that thing you loved is now leaving you cold.
Or, you love it but it doesn’t love you. It didn’t stretch like it was supposed to… the ankle straps cut into your feet… it doesn’t work with anything else in your wardrobe.
It’s a Fashion Mistake.
Don’t feel bad about it — we all make them sometimes. The sooner you let go of the item, the more likely you are to get your money back so you can move on to something you’ll really love.
Here’s your options:
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