Starting the Week in a Positive Way

Mondays are hard, and they’re even harder in the winter – I think we can all agree on that one! This got me thinking about what improves my Mondays, and I realised…it’s all about trying to feel inspired!

So I thought I’d show you some of the things that inspire me to get out of my Monday morning gloom. Take a look – I hope they can inspire you too. There’s some SurfStitch product that I’m loving at the moment too!

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Some beautiful flowers to brighten a room.

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Beautiful people who changed an entire era.

Sea, air, sun

Pretty words describing prettier places.

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A big city and all of its’ lights.

Dubrovnik

Thinking of my favourite place: Dubrovnik.

Sunset

A tropical sunset.

Here are some things I bought today (that are definitely improving my Monday!)

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1. Stylestalker Replicants Pant – Chambray Floral. Dressed up with cuban heeled boots and a tucked in button down shirt, or dressed down with a singlet & strappy sandals! 2. Tigerlily Amisha Onesie – Dark Indigo. Dressed up with heels, purse and jewelled necklace, or down with sandals (perfect for my European travels coming up!). 3. Rhythm The Packet Hat – Black. Super on-trend right now, the fedora is a winter style staple!

And these ones are still on the wishlist.

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1. Tigerlily Kutch Dress – Basmati. Again, thinking of Europe! A comfortable dress to throw over a bikini and to wear to a seaside lunch! 2. Living Doll Toasted Marshmello Knit. Chunky knits are back again this winter and this one is super cute with those little plucked fibres and dotted colouring. 3. Tigerlily Parvani Pant – Moon. Track pants are often daggy, but not when they’re Tigerlily and Fluoro!

HAPPY MONDAY!

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MENS TREND: CONTRAST POCKETS

There’s no escaping, denying, or hiding it: the crazy contrast pocket is a trend on mens tees that’s come around and is here to stay! Whether it’s a different colour from the same palette, or whether it’s a crazy print clashing on another, this style can be seen all over SurfStitch and its’ mens new arrivals.

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Billabong Made for Living Campaign ’13 – Shop Billabong

Pair it with your favourite chinos or drop crotch pants (try the Zanerobe Sure Shot for a huge range of colours), as well as some hi tops and a beanie, and your autumn look is set.

Here are some of our favourite tees, long sleeved shirts and jumpers & how you can style them.

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 1. Zanerobe Mccabe Tee – Terracotta. 2. Zanerobe Suffolk Tee – Royal Blue. 3. Zanerobe Heath Tee – Navy.

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1. Rip Curl Grifter Pocket Tee – White. 2. Rip Curl Grifter Pocket Tee – Black. 3. Lee One Way Drop Pocket Tee – Teal.

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1. Rip Curl Luno Zip Thru Hood – Navy. 2. Rusty Woodland LS Shirt – Eden. 3. Billabong Thrills Garage Collection Crew Neck – Oatmeal.

Dress it up:

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1. Billabong Trident Stripe Tee – Dirty White. 2. Zanerobe Sureshot Elastic Pant – Washed Black. 3. Analog Service Beanie – Redwood. 4. Vans Sk8 Hi Leather Shoe – Aged Leather Brown.

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SurfStitch Colour Story: Winter White.

Crisp and clean, pure to look at and hot as hell to dress in. As winter sets in, and darker colours begin to dominate, white is making itself a prominent shade this season to blind the winter blues right out the window. White jeans are making themselves to be a wardrobe staple, while white blazers are a must have and nothing beats the perfect white tee. White is even trending as the go to nail colour. So warm up in white this winter.

Shop the White look at SurfStitch here.

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INTRODUCING: SurfStitch Boutique

SurfStitch has now established itself as Australia’s #1 for Surf & Fashion Online, and for outstanding choice, content and customer service. Now, for those of you who are fashion-hungry, we bring you SurfStitch Boutique.

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The SurfStitch Boutique offering has been designed to satisfy the demand for more fashion focused and hard-to-find labels from Australia and around the world. With an award-winning foundation for the site, SurfStitch Boutique will bring you the mens and womens fashion you’ve been asking for with the same outstanding customer service and delivery standards.

With over 400 brands on SurfStitch.com, our Boutique offering will consist of a hand-picked selection of the fashion brands you know and love, as well as new and up-and-coming labels. If you love fashion, you’ll love SurfStitch Boutique.

Take a glimpse at some imagery from a couple of the selected labels that SurfStitch Boutique will house. Comment below if there are labels you want to see, and we’ll see what we can do!

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Welcome to SurfStitch Boutique – see all labels here.

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Cannes Film Festival 2013

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The 66th edition of the glamorous Cannes Film Festival kicked off in the French Riviera yesterday. Baz Luhrmann’s lavish take on the classic The Great Gatsby opened the festival with stars including Carey Mulligan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicole Kidman and Isla Fisher gracing the red carpet despite the windy and drenching weather. The horrible weather didn’t manage to ruin the high spirits although the hemlines had to be watched and hair and make up excused!

The film world royalty all port at the picturesque French Riviera for the 12 day festival which is filled with beautiful people and amazing cinematography. We here at SurfStitch are lusting over the high attention to detail and breathtaking work of some of the world’s best couture gowns on show on the red carpet. Great Gatsby star, Carey Mulligan, stole the show in her baby pink couture Dior dress while model of the moment Cara Delvingne sported a Burberry black lace floor length gown.

Take inspiration from the movie elite and their black tie events on a smaller, much more understated level with lace sleeves, bright bursts of colour and attention to detail pieces. While we can’t all be so lucky to wear the works of Dior we can always dream through these images and the SurfStitch pieces below.

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Go pretty and girly with shades of pink from blush to bright, volumous skirts or take cue from Nicole Kidman with floral motifs and high detailing.

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Billabong Pure Hearted Dress- Purple Heat, Rusty The Laser Dress- Ruby, Camilla and Marc Hope Dress- Jewel Floral & Minkpink Modern Antoinette Dress- Multiarticle-0-19CBCB52000005DC-834_470x844

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These women favoured the eternally glamorous styles of black, white, lace and red in sweet heart necklines and figure hugging shapes.

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Lee Dreamer Lace Dress- Black Dream, Tigerlily Tekke Dress- Tango Red, This and That Flora Dress- Black & Kuku Street Urchin Dress- Ivory Gold
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Shop The Look At SurfStitch.

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Seeing how looks are put together by the people who deal with the clothes on our site all day everyday always interests me. No stylists, no lighting and so many different interpretations and tastes. So this week, I pulled one guy and one girl out of the hall way and in front of my iPhone screen to see the way they have put some of the latest SurfStitch new arrivals together. And what’s better, you can shop the entire look on the site!

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WOMENS:

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Tania from buying wears the:

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Just Add SugarGumption Stripe Throw On Top‘ over the top and the

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House Of Harlow Olbers Paradox Ring

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Style Inspiration: Erin Wasson

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She is the girl that everyone wants to be friends with. She is effortlessly cool, extremely personable, has an enviable wardrobe and is the type of girl you can image yourself having the best time around, every time. She is, of course, Erin Wasson. Inspiring us on a daily basis with her 90s vibes and rock and roll appearance complete with tattoos, tousled hair and that comfortable tomboyish look that she seems to perfect.

Wasson not only stirs attention for her facial features and banging body but her personal style has captivated us on the style scene too. Model, (including Victoria Secrets), stylist and designer of label Low Luv, Wasson is the complete package. With staple wardrobe essentials including t-shirts, denim shorts, leather pants and statement accessories she has an easy yet refined style. In an interview with Elle.com she describes her look as:

“My style has always been the same idea. Very free, easy, relaxed, and slightly androgynous… I’ve never been a girly-girl, never drawn to things that are fussy. And the older I get, the more basic I get. I look at pictures of the stuff I wore five years ago and am like, “Wow, I was really going there.” I’ve become so simple these days. I like the idea of not looking at trends, not being driven by them. I like what I like and that’s it.”

Find pieces inspired by Wasson philosophy of simple, effortless style and shop her looks at SurfStitch!

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Lee Mid Licks Jean Black Envy, Stylestalker Time Traveller Biker Jacket- Milk, Minkpink Say Anything Sunglasses- Black & Billabong Bonita Sandal- Blackerin-wasson-white-shirt

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Billabong Sabine Leather Belt- Black, Billabong Falls Festival Hat- Black, Billabong Amelia Boot- Tapestry & House of Harlow Sahara Sand Pendant Necklace4b88bfde830318b72401437c85405ab9

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Get Erin Wasson’s laid back, easy style with these pieces:

Outfit2Finders Keepers Stole Your Love Top- Black, Levis Legging Jean- Repaired White, Piper Lane Lunar Oceanic Silk Pant- Landscape & Stussy Reneee Jacket- Navy

Images: pinterest, hanneli.com, thefash.com, fashiongonerogue.com, elle.com & lulamelissa.blogspot

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RHYTHM GIRLS + WIN A $500 WARDROBE!

Rhythm is a newer brand to SurfStitch and we’ve fallen head over heels in love with the collection. This brand dances to the beat of its’ own drum, taking influences from the worlds of art, music and lifestyle throughout the ages.

Rhythm Girls brings you a feminine yet fierce collection of pieces in subtle fabrics to bold prints and everything in between. Be inspired by their Winter 2013 campaign and scroll to the bottom to find out how you can WIN yourself a $500 Rhythm wardrobe from SurfStitch!

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IMG_6511 Here’s all you have to do to be in the running to win a $500 Rhythm Girls wardrobe!

Rhythm_CompetitionCompetition ends Friday 17th May at 5pm AEST so get in quick!

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SurfStitch- Celebrating 400 Brands.

In the past few years SurfStitch has launched our European site, been named Online Retailer of the Year and won Best Pure Play Online Retailer and Best Site Optimization and design at the ORIA’s. When we reached another mile stone, welcoming our 400th brand, we decided it was well and truly time to celebrate….And celebrate we did!

 

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At a roof top location in Coolangatta on Saturday night, attendee’s walked into what fittingly felt like a scene out of a Corona commercial. Decorated and put together by the wonderful people at Us And You Events, the theme of the night centered around SurfStitch’s development and growth. Party goers had their pictures taken on Polaroid camera’s that were later added to a large banner, eventually carving out the number ’400,’ growing over time just as the company itself has.

A large paper flower garden was the center piece encouraging photo op’s amoungst the blooms to “See how our garden grows.”

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And what would a party to celebrate 400 brands be without involving a couple of the killer labels offered on site? The Zanerobe party crew jumped in their van and headed up from Sydney to work the decks all night, getting a quick rest as our head Men’s buyer Ollie Edwards took over and spun some old school hip hop.

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The filling of the ’400′ banner and the phenomenal sunset was all caught on time laps film from a couple of camera’s donated by GoPro, as well as some other rather interesting footage from the rest of the night.

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Sailor Jerry’s ensured that all that hard work on the dance floor was rewarded with a refreshing beverage mixed with Jerry’s, ginger beer, bitters and lime and the night went off without a hitch.

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400 Brands was an absolute blast and we can’t wait for the 500th!

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Mens Trend: The Drop Crotch

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The drop crotch jean and pant is a new and daring trend not for the faint hearted. However, when done right it is a fresh style that gives a street edge to ordinary jeans. For some this look may be a bit too much, but if you style it with a basic tee and sneakers you will have a statement, edgy look. Don’t ever get this look confused with the MC hammer pant, this is definitely not a baggy, loose style circa 1980s. To stop you getting confused between the two don’t go for a loose drop crotch to your knees instead choose a more subtle cut with a tapered leg. 61d4b0e2e11b5d0ce808d61a73f9a802 9577e934667e0907a883b4e484ea67a7

Shop Drop Crotch Pants

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Zanerobe Munk Trunk Chino- Indigo Rinse, Zanerobe Sureshot Elastic Pant- Jade, St Goliath NJ Fleece Pant- Tawny Port & Insight The Rudie Pant- Black Out Blue
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Shop Drop Crotch Jeans

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Levis 508 Slim Taper Jean- Black, Lee Swagger Skins Jean- Dirty Khaki, Levis 508 Tapered Straight Jean- Indigo Rinse & Lee Swagger Skins Jean- Burnt Shadow

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How to style the SurfStitch Drop Crotch Pant

Let the jeans be the focus of your look by keeping the rest of your outfit basic yet still on trend with a white tee, light khaki jacket and leather shoes.

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Von Zipper Pavement Denim Pant- Washed Blue, Long Lost Basic Crew Tee- White, Thrills Army Trench Jacket- Army Green & Vans Sk8 Hi Shoe- Aged Leather Brown

Images credited to Pinterest and their rightful owner.

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