sale report: Irving Baby $2 sale

Although Hindley St has a reputation for being the sleazy street, it actually contains some pretty good stores. One of those stores is a personal favourite of mine Irving Baby. And yesterday, they had a sale at its Hindley St store*. A sale where everything in the store (except for one rack of new stuff) was $2. Not starting at $2. Not some stuff $2 and the rest half price. EVERYTHING was $2.

When I got there (about 15 - 20 minutes early) there was a line from the door, winding its way back around the side street.



My spot in line sucked, but it sucked less than the 20 - 30 people behind me who came later. Everyone there was excited, some had been standing in line for hours**, and everyone was dressed fabulously. Not like, ball gown fabulous, but street-style fabulous (my favourite).

Inside, it was a complete madhouse. There were probably about 200 people in the store, and there was literally no room to move. You had to gently push (or not so gently push) people out of your way to get to the racks, to move forward, to do anything. I scrambled to get to a tartan jacket, but it was gone in the minutes it took me to cross the room. Luckily, one of my friends, who had a better place in line, got it for me! I would have taken photos, but I don't think I would have been able to stand still long enough to get a photo. People were crawling on the floor, because it was an easy way to move along the racks and see if anyone dropped any interesting stuff. Nobody got injured though, and there were no fights (that I saw) over clothes.

I managed to grab:

1. An awesome bikini

2. An amazing asymentrical skirt.

3. Shoooooooeeeeeessss

4. A tartan jacket (the one grabbed by my friend Hannah)

Plus, a fleecy vest, a picture of a cat, two belts, and two skirts that I'm going to shorten (like, a lot).

Hannah and I got out and had a hot chocolate, and then I went back to check it out. The store had pretty much been trashed, and there were still people there looking and people arriving.

Mink Pink top (second hand)
Bebe dress (Gilles Street Market)
Blue suede belt (Nadia's House of Serendipity)
Aldo red shoes (eBay)

Green tassel scarf (Nadia's House of Serendipity)
Electric blue jacket (eBay)

Hopeful bag (Print Liberation)

*they have a store on Twin St (a small side street off Rundle Mall), which is equally fabulous, and always has an amazing sale rack.
**which is what I plan to do next year. I'm getting there like two hours early. If you do plan on going next year, I recommend this.

Sale Report: Online Shopping - Topshop and Forever 21

It's University time again, and you know what that means! That's right, it means I'm about to spend a lot of time on the internet, window shopping and resisting the urge to buy everything. Even though anyone who's been on Etsy knows that's very, very hard (it's like Ebay, but for amazing vintage and odd stationary, both of which I love).

Topshops's online store is making very hard for me at the moment, mainly because of this dress:
I don't know whether it's the pink ruffle, or the stripes, or the whole carnival-y look it has about it (well, it is called the 'Clown Dress'), but whatever it is, it's completely adorable. Plus, combine that with the fact that it's on sale (and Topshops's shipping to Australia isn't hugely daunting - I think it's like $10 AU) and I WANNNNT IIIIIITT.

Forever 21, which always has awesome things on sale all the time because they want me to be poor, has lots of coats on sale, because their winter's ending, while ours is starting (or it would be, if it would stop being so hot).
See, this would go with a lot of my tartan stuff. See, I can be practical about clothes (sort of).

Okay, so I know I already have a big coat. But the one I have is black. And the buttons are different! (And I have a weakness for millitary-style jackets. I think it's the buttons)

Okay, so it's a tartan skirt. I can't go past that. This one is dark purple, and full of tartan-y goodness. Plus I don't have a dark purple one.

I don't know what it is about cardigans, but I find myself really loving them at the moment. I foresee a lot of cardigan/tartan skirt combos in my winter wardrobe.

Sale Report: Gilles Street Markets

Although I hadn't been for ages, I went to the Gilles Street Markets with my cousin. I remembered it being quite good value and I was not wrong. I didn't pay over $10 for anything all day, and a majority of my purchases were $5 and under, especially towards the end of the day.

We were there all day, which really is the best way to go about it. Getting there when it opens (10am) means you get the really good stuff before anyone else (I got a 70's disco dress for $5), and staying later means you get things at reduced prices (I got a green sailor dress for $2, plus a dress my cousin had seen earlier had gone down from $40 to $10).

Seriously, if you have a chance to get to one, I'd defiantly recommend it. The next one is on the 21st of this month.

Sale Report: Globalize

Usually I avoid places like Globalize like the plague. Anything in there is over $50, so to go in there would only mean torturing myself. However, a few times a year they have a huuuge sale. In the past I've avoided these as well, on the basis of my "if it's over $30 then it's not really on sale" rule. But I was in Rundle Mall, and I saw "nothing over $40" posters plastering the windows, so I thought "why not?". I am so glad I did.

Piper Lane Flamingo Mini Skirt
It was: $89. 95
I got it for: $20

Evil Twin Insane In the Membrane Crop-Tee
It was: $59.95

I got it for: $20








Mooks T-shirt
It was: $49.95
I got it for: $20
(I find this slogan hilarious)







Plus a brown gingham scarf and a lace scarf (2 for $15), black and white check shoes ($5 down from $45 - defiantly my favourite bargain of the day) and pink velveteen shoes with these adorable bows ($14 down from $30).

If you are down Rundle Mall way any time soon, I would most defiantly advise you to check it out.