Styl-E-letter July 2006
Melanie Moss Styling Styl-E-letter July 2006
Welcome to the July issue of the Melanie Moss Styl-E-Letter, your monthly guide to all things fashion and fun, filled with hints and tips to help you create the perfect wardrobe.
This month we are hitting the end of year sales to bring you the best of the bargains!
Congratulations to our June Styl-E-Letter winners of the gorgeous Diana Ferrari boots and the Johnson's Holiday Skin prize packs. Several of you raced out and purchased the boots we recommended. Thanks for writing and letting us know how you are going with them!
Melanie Moss Styling price increase:
As of June 30 2006, our rates will increase to the following:
Individual Melanie Moss Style Tour: $110 per hour (minimum 3 hour booking)
Individual Wardrobe Makeover: $170 per hour (minimum 2 hour booking)
Group Style Tour: $100 per head (minimum 4 people booking)
However, if you book any Melanie Moss service during July and mention the Styl-E-Letter newsletter we will waive the price increase.
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With winter well and truly upon us, its time to turn our attention to knitwear that has been hiding in the cupboard for nine months.
The key with knitwear is to apply the "spend as much as you can afford" rule. You can pay $60 for an acrylic manmade jumper that will last two wears before pilling and losing shape or you can spend around $200 and buy something that will last a lifetime.
This month we are featuring luxury, knitwear label Jac+Jack. This label combines simplicity of design with beautiful detailing. Created from premium yarns like worsted cashmere, superfine merino wool and mercerised cotton, Jac + Jack's distinctively coloured knitwear has an organic, tactile quality, which feels gorgeous against the skin.
When choosing your knitwear you should be looking out for the following yarns:
The rarest and most precious fibre in the world. Cashmere is as luxurious as it gets. Cashmere hair is very slow growing, the cashmere goat takes four years to grow enough hair for one sweater. Some of cashmeres unique characteristics are:
Superfine merino wool is bred to have a unique fibre structure. Superfine merino refers to merino wool 18 micron or less. This unique structure enables the fibre when knitted into sweaters to display the following characteristics:
The term mercerised refers to the lustre process given to cotton yarn or fabric, which is mostly done on superior cottons. Cottons that have fine and long staple fibre length, these cottons are usually; Sea island, Egyptian and Pima Cottons. Mercerisation gives cotton the following characteristics:
Pima cotton refers to superior grade cottons. The long, fine staple length gives the cotton greater strength and silkiness resulting in qualities such as:
Silk is a luxury fibre that has been used in textiles and yarns for centuries. An ancient material has exotic and luxurious characteristics:
Linen is a natural fibre that is stubby and gauze like in its look, making it an ideal summer yarn. This natural look gives linen purity and a home-spun feel. Perfect for long summer days. Its characteristics are:
These gorgeous cashmere knits are available from August in selected boutiques.
Telephone: 02 9380 6630
Website: www.JacAndJack.com
Many clients have asked us recently about the return of the headband to fashion. You want to know what styles to buy, how to wear it and whether someone over 21 should be caught dead wearing one. The answer is as always yes, if it is done to suit you, and worn with confidence. It is also a great way to keep your hair off your face and look stylish at the same time.
There are two main ways to wear the headband and they fall into the daytime / night-time category.
To wear the headband by day, blow-dry hair straight with a side part drying the fringe forward before sweeping to the side. Place headband on your head with all hair falling behind it. Backcomb hair from the crown to gain height behind the headband, making sure you softly brush over the top to create sleekness. This look works best with a thick, flat headband in a shiny tortishell. Use lashings of mascara to ensure you don't come off looking like a school girl and you are finished.
To wear by night, blow-dry hair straight before backcombing your hair from the forehead backwards to create lots of height. Carefully brush hair from both sides of your head into a high ponytail, which should sit right on your crown. Ensure you keep the height from the backcombing but create sleekness at the sides of your head – you want this to look like you threw it together, without the missed the alarm clock look. Place the headband close to the forehead and wrap some hair around the elastic of the ponytail, securing with bobby pins. This looks works best with a thin black headband or try a black velvet ribbon secured underneath the ponytail. Plump up the ponytail and slip on some black eyeliner and lip-gloss and you are ready.
We feel like all we are wearing at the moment is Country Road after attending the amazing sale last week with 50% off the sale price, we bought a whole new wardrobe.
Best buys are the silk georgette Grecian dress, tailored beige pants, tailored check pants, 100% pure silk camisoles, black jersey dresses, accessories and shoes especially the boots if you can get your hands on some.
Stay away from the peasant style skirts and loose jersey baby doll tops – they won't be coming back for a while.
The suiting for men is fantastic, with a great range of sizes still available. The shirts are not fantastic but the silk ties are well worth it at $40, beautiful quality and gorgeous prints.
Make sure you check out the home-wear section and grab the gorgeous 100% silk nightwear – makes a great summer dress.
Telephone: 03 9267 1400
We had the opportunity to get very familiar with the product at DFS Galleria this month whilst styling the parade for The Park Hyatt afternoon tea. We got to play with Burberry, Ralph Lauren, Ferragamo and all the brands associated with the centre. What we did not realise, is that the Galleria is actually 5 stories high full of luxury brands! They are in sale mode with the end of financial year and we really encourage you to take advantage of the amazing discounts on offer!
| Salvatore Ferragamo | Save up to 50% off. |
| Coach | Save up to 30% off. |
| Loewe | New Collection in-store now. Save up to 50% off. |
| Polo Ralph Lauren | Has lots of menswear on sale some pieces 70% off. |
| Burberry | Has two racks of selected divine casual wear including knits, shirts, pants and jackets both women's and menswear available. |
These offers are available on selected items only, buts its certainly worth having a look. Offer available until stocks last.
| Address: | DFS Galleria Sydney – Luxury Retail and Duty-Free Shopping 155 George St, The Rocks, Sydney |
| Telephone: | 02 8243 8666 |
| Website: | www.dfsgalleria.com |
| DFS Watches Sydney International Airport Pier B & Pier C Departures Terminal | |
| Telephone: | 02 8339 1085 |
This great shirting brand is continuing their fantastic shirt sale with selected shirts reduced to 50% off, starting from $85. They are also offering selected ties and cufflinks at 50%.
They are also running their current deal on shirting – buy three full priced shirts and receive a fourth free or alternatively purchase two full priced shirts and receive a set of cufflinks.
Telephone: 02 9223 6729
This is your opportunity to get some great office wear with all items reduced by 50%. Best pieces are the dotted pinstripe jackets $159 (were $329), Fashion Tweed pencil skirts $79 ($169), textured coats in charcoal $239 ($479) and stay cosy in Angora Cardigans $89 ($179) and V-Neck Washable Merino Jumpers $49 ($99).
The David Lawrence sale starts Wednesday, 5 July in all national stores and concessions within David Jones and Myer. While stocks last.
Telephone: 1800 100366
Website: www.DavidLawrence.com.au
Opened in October 1878 as a Resort Hotel with private Golf Course, Tennis Court, Croquet Lawn, Home Farm and horse-drawn Coaches to Jenolan Caves, the Imperial is the oldest Tourist Hotel in Australia.
Located in the heart of Mount Victoria Village, the last remaining authentic 19th Century village in the Blue Mountains, The Hotel Imperial has more recently become famous for its theme parties and weekends. Murder Mystery Weekends combining the best of participative entertainment and good food are extremely popular.
First you will be invited to choose the theme for your Host A Murder Mystery Dinner Party.
You then receive invitations to distribute to your other guests (normally about ten people). You invite each of your friends/colleagues to come as a character and they can dress up accordingly if they wish (dressing up is optional – but more fun!)
The three most popular Host a Murder themes are:
Other themes include: Roman Ruins, The Good, The Bad, and the Guilty, and The Maiming of the Shrew.
You arrive at The Imperial on Saturday morning. Dinner and Host a Murder Saturday night includes a three-course meal. You then depart Sunday morning.
We suggest you spend Saturday morning doing the vintage stores in Katoomba and Sunday wandering around gorgeous Leura and perhaps visit The Everglades Garden.
Accommodation costs start from $25 backpacker twin share to $220 for the Imperial Suite with four-poster bed.
Address: 1 Station Street, Mount Victoria Village NSW
Telephone: 02 4787 1878
Website: www.HotelImperial.com.au
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