More pics from our Summer Shoot

Clare has been working very hard on these pictures, and here they are for you to feast your eyes on.  Visit her Facebook page for Sweet Nausea Photography to see more of her work, and our Facebook page for prices of all these garments.   Scroll down for the first installment of images, and my thanks to all my darlings who made this shoot so much fun and so good looking.  

Holiday Trading Times

We'd like to offer you a some extra shopping hours, so here are the times you can expect us to be open over the next while:

Friday 16 - public holiday: We are open from 10am - 6pm
Saturday 17: 10am - 5pm
Monday 19 & Tuesday 20th: 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 21st - Friday 23rd: 9am - 7pm
Saturday 24: 9am - 5pm
Monday 26 - public holiday. closed
Tuesday 27 - Friday 30: 9am - 6 pm
Saturday 31: Closed.
Monday 2 Jan: public holiday: closed.

Normal trading hours resume from Tuesday 3 Jan:
9am - 6pm during the week
10am - 5pm on Saturdays.

Remember, we can do gift wrapping - just ask.

Our Summer Shoot

Here are the first batch of pictures from our Summer shoot by Clare Foxcorft-Williams.  If you'd like to see more of them, like our Facebook page and you will spot them as they go up.

This was such a fun shoot and I think that really shows.  The models are all  HelloAgain/Fittees staff,  bar one.  Sino Swartbooi and Kenan Tatt are working the shop over the busy season, Trynity Silk, although no longer working for us, is a long standing Hello Again representative who's worked both in the shop, and at the Fittees Factory, same goes for Stephen Savage, who is back in town for a few months from America.  Kelly Egan is a good friend who happens to work at the awesome Dr Pachanga clothing store at the 210 on Long Mall. Clare, who also works at the shop, is becoming our unofficial official photographer, is always initiating shoots and coming up with new concepts.

As much as I would like to say that I styled the shoot, it would be a lie.  I just gave general direction as to what to put together, with a lot of input from the girls, but they very much made the look their own by styling everything the way they would wear it.  Which is precisely the Hello Again ethos.  I don't want to prescribe how our clothes should be worn - that is why I love this shoot so much - let the models ( who are luckily incredibly stylish), dress themselves according to their personalities.

This must have been the 6th or 7th shoot I've done for Hello Again, and I am loving the process of evolution that's happening on so many levels.

Thanks from the bottom of my heart to Clare and all our models, and to Monument Portraiture Studio.

Project Happy Feet

Today I met with Astrid from Boheme, at her busy shoe making studio in Seapoint.  We are working on some fabric belts for Hello Again.  Think big bows, stripes, colours, textures, asian style wrap around belts, vintage buckles and fine finishes.  Can't wait to show you the samples.

While I was there I noticed these beauties (below), and so Astrid told me about the Happy Feet Project.  This is a project she started through FEET Charity, and the aim is to make beautiful, handmade leather  "Veldskoene" for the disadvantaged children that FEET are involved with.  What I find so wonderful is that the children get to design their own shoes.

Astrid and Farieda take the children's drawings and turn them into the most gorgeous shoes.

Of course this wonderful project needs financial backing, so if you like what they are doing, you can sponsor a child a pair of dream shoes for R100.

Read here for more info on the project or for contact details, should you like to contribute. Visit the Boheme website to see some more of the beautiful shoes they produce.

Lucky Pony Portrait Project

The Lucky Pony Portrait Project is a fun little exercise, where bloggers were paired up by Angie, from Lucky Pony to make portraits of each other.

I only found out about it way after the deadline, which made me kinda sad, but when Janece from Vintage Lover tweeted that her partner had pulled out, I leaped at the chance to be her replacement partner.  It was so much fun drawing Janece and her gorgeous man, Julian.  It just made me realise once again how much I enjoy drawing and that I really want to do it  more.

Because we started so late, and also because we both live in Cape Town, so we didn't have to post ours, we were able to extend our deadline a bit, and exchanged our portraits personally at the City Bowl Market, where she sells vintage clothing.

I am so lucky - Janece has not only made the most delightfully sweet and pretty portrait of me and my puppy Soekie, (ooh, how I love the patterns!) she has also made me the happiest girl in the land by adding some vintage love.  Not only did I get a pretty vintage blouse in one of my favourite colours and a frame pendant, but also a seriously awesome printed silk scarf.  How did you know that I love scarves, Janece?  You must have been following me around town, checking out my wardrobe! And, of course the package was completed by some trademark Vintage Lover fizzers. :-)

Check out the Vintage Lover blog to see my portrait of Janece and Julian and one of the printed silk scarves I made for Hello Again, and while you're clicking, why not go and like her Facebook page?  Vintage Lover is one of the best vintage sellers in Cape Town.  If you buy something from her, you can be sure it's been washed and quality checked, she has a great eye, and sources some seriously on trend pieces.  Her prices are brilliant too.

What an enriching experience!  Make things, have fun, make friends, get stuff.  It doesn't get much better.  Thanks Janece, and thanks Angie.  You girls are too cool!  I'm definitely signing up for future projects.  ;-)