Two for One at Reitmans
It’s barely May, and Reitmans is already into their third wave of spring reductions. To make room for fresh stock, this popular Canadian chain is offering a great excuse to update your wardrobe with its buy one, get one free promotion on select previously reduced items.
With most merchandise already priced well under $50, this deal is worth investigating. Basic tops, pretty blouses, work trousers, weekend capris, flirty skirts and summer dresses can be yours starting as low as $14.99. Some accessories, jewellery and shoes are priced to move as well (lots under $15).
Visit: www.reitmans.com
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Short Sale at Suzy Shier
There’s an incentive to bare your legs this season — the Suzy Shier short sale. Save 20 per cent off all styles, including short shorts and more demure (office-appropriate) Bermudas that skim the knee. Various styles and fabrics to choose from and with regular prices starting at just $20 a pair.
While you’re there, don’t miss out on the solid selection of spring/summer frocks. Halter dresses, smock styles, babydolls and tunics with deep v-necks start at just $25 a pop. Best buy: a candy pink jersey cocktail dress ($30) — very Marilyn Monroe, and can be layered with a cardigan or short-sleeved blazer.
Visit: www.suzyshier.com
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Fashion Business Workshop If you’re a local designer poised to launch your own fashion business consider participating in this weekend workshop. This two-day session covers the secrets of fabric sourcing, finding good contractors and manufacturers, pricing and marketing, how to hire a sales agent, the benefits of trade shows, morphing sketches into samples as well as all kinds of number-crunching tips for the less creative yet key business side of fashion.
Taught by Liza Deyrmenjian, a fashion manufacturing consultant who’s worked with Oscar de la Renta and recently mentored Jay McCarroll (the first winner of Project Runway), this intensive fashion education seminar could arm emerging BC fashion entrepreneurs with a strategic edge.
Where: UBC Robson Square, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 14 & 15 (weekend).
Cost: $275+ GST (before May 23), $325+GST (after May 23).
Call: 604-822-1420 to register.
