$20 outfit challenge

This holidays my nieces and I are hitting the opshops of wellytown. To make it a bit more interesting we have set ourselves a $20 outfit challenge. Once we have our style-EE new threads I am taking them out for a surprise outing....wearing our preloved treasures.

Thanks to a superb bit of research on one of the girls behalf, we have a flower covered manual outlining all the possible shops, addresses and sometimes notes such as 'if vivienne westwood came to wellington she would shop here'. I think we could sell the manual on trademe for a tidy profit...if we could bare to part with our new found knowledge. No, we are officially 'in the IN crowd', we plan to stay there by keeping our vintage scarf covered mouths firmly closed.

So far we have giggled our way through Rebound, in Petone. A treasure trove (I stocked up on preggy clothes blowing my budget immediately). I definetly won the ugly beautiful prize with a violently bright turquiose Homer-esque 'Moo-Moo' - think velour tent. Glorious. I promise I'll only wear it around the house...until I get invited to a bad taste party. Please someone have a bad taste party.

The girls found some great pieces to start off their outfits, and I bought a lovely classic black country road dress ($17), leaving me $3 for shoes,handbag, scarf etc. Cuba street here we come.