Thursday, January 29, 2009

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

By Tessa W. Adachi

In New Zealand, the fashion industry is taking its position to new heights. The growth in this sector is contributing to the creative, economic, and cultural steadiness of the country. If this fact isn't enough to make you support your neighbouring clothing retailers then perhaps the fact that you'll get a great new wardrobe might do the trick. In New Zealand it seems that the quality of the clothing is far more important than the volume that is produced.

The internet has made New Zealand designed and made clothing easily available. Several websites offer comprehensive listings making it easy to find quality New Zealand made clothing.

FashioNZ (http://www.fashionz.co.nz/) is one of the best sites to use when looking for New Zealand fashions. It lists many of New Zealand's online clothing stores and provides links to fashion tips, jobs, articles, galleries, events in your area, and lots of other items of interest regarding New Zealand's fashion industry.

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! - 16759

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