Saturday, January 24, 2009

How to Find Women's Clothing Designed and Made in New Zealand

By Tessa W. Adachi

The fashion industry in New Zealand is taking off in a very incredible way. The growth of fashion is contributing to the economic, creative, and cultural stability of the country. This is all the more reason why you should support your local clothing retailers, not to mention the fact that you can get yourself a fantastic new wardrobe. In New Zealand, it's the quality of the clothing that counts, not the size.

There are a number of websites out there which offer a comprehensive listing of quality New Zealand designed and made clothing.

One of the most excellent fashion website online is FashioNZ (http://www.fashionz.co.nz/). As well as listing many of New Zealand's better online clothing stores, you can also find great fashion tips, jobs, blogs, links to galleries, articles, competitions, events in your own area and lots more info on the latest trends in New Zealand.

Lights on Women's Clothing (http://www.womensclothing.co.nz/) is another useful website that has critiqued many of New Zealand's finest online women's clothing stores and given a comprehensive listing of the results. Sites are judged and given ratings based on factors that are important to shopping for fashion online. They rate ease of use, free shipping offers, provision of a size charts and contact information and the checkout system process.

The Long Island clothing company (http://www.longisland.co.nz/) is a web site that seems to feature on a number of the abovementioned websites and scored very well on the Lights on Women's Clothing scale.

Long Island offers a wide variety of clothing options for women sizes 10-30. Cardigans, wraps, jackets, vests, pants, shorts, skirts, t-shirts, tops, underwear and accessories are all available at affordable prices. Their clothing is designed to fit the figures of real women both comfortably and stylishly. Long Island comes out with four new collections a year. Ordering can be done from the convenience of your own home via the internet, or through a mail order catalogue. To find out more visit their website at http://www.longisland.co.nz/.

When searching for women's clothing in New Zealand, don't overlook the site, Finda (http://www.finda.co.nz/business/). You can search for a business by category and limit your search to a certain region of New Zealand. Searching for women's fashion in Christchurch returned 127 different hits conveniently grouped and listed according the suburb in which they can be found.

It is now simple to find retailers near you and support New Zealand's fashion industry by viewing the newest collections, styles and trends all from your personal computer. You can a fashion trendsetter with your New Zealand designed and made fashions bought from the comfort of your own home! - 16747

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