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Please meet Barbra Hogg she is wearing head to toes duncan and prudence.

She is one of our biggest supporters, Barbra always comes in and wants to see what is new and then orders one right away, usually before it is ready to go into production. Now thats what I call a good customer. When Barbra comes in she is like a ray of sunshine she makes us all smile and we all think how lucky we are to have a customer like her.

thanks

duncan,

We have some sizes left in our Organic Denim, reduced from $195 to $110. We’ll still hem them for you anywhere you like, but at that price, you could get us to turn them into shorts. New Zealand made, organic denim, custom fit, built for comfort.
There’s also 2009’s Sample Rack Duncan and the girls are finally ready to let go. They’re like friggin babies for these people, I swear. I don’t know why they hold on to them for so long. I do admit, once you get a whole year’s worth of samples collected on a rack, it does look good. There are some strange colours, but most of the fits are almost just the same as what we have in store. Come on in and try them on. It’s all marked at prices to go. We also have 10% off everything in stock, from tshirts to longline denim jackets, including the rest of our range of jeans and pants. See you before the weather packs in again…hey! Don’t forget we’re open Sunday March 7 too: that’s Festival Day.

He needs a break for sure. Just look at upstairs. Duncan sanded, varnished, finished the kitchen floor and ceiling, then painted the whole four back rooms. Our kitchen is complete! Our apartment is ready to merchandise! The floors are so shiny!
(Finally, we can have guests up there and not be embarrassed)
Tessa and Amanda held the fort all January while Duncan spent every day in his overalls, covered in dust and grumpy, like a builder. When Duncan and I get a spare moment to talk, we marvel at how brilliant our staff are, able to handle our business, it seems at times better than we can.
Duncan is pleased to be back at the helm but has decided, well, if they really can handle it in a quiet month without me, maybe if I run a tight ship with the schedule, they can handle it all the time. All he has to do is draw, and manage their production schedule. I think that’s smart. Tessa’s the Queen of Screenprinting. Amanda is the Perfectionist Productionist. And don’t they serve you well, too? And now that we have Perrine, the waste minimalist, Duncan & Prudence are looking shiny upstairs and downstairs.

This is Perrine, our new fashion graduate from Massey’s School of Design. She won the sustainable fashion last year when she graduated with her degree in Fashion. She is inspired by sustainability, the urban landscape and function in her design concepts.
You might recall Perrine interned for us in 2008. She completed a sustainable brand portfolio project using Duncan & Prudence for a case study. We were so impressed, so now we’re psyched to have her back on board, helping us with our journey toward full sustainability.
Perrine is french as well as Kiwi. She spends as much time as she can in her second home up in the northern hemisphere. When we all grilled her for some French inspiration she shrugged nonchalantly, saying fashion there this winter (our summer- same difference, practically) was disappointing. In fact, she believed our craft revival movement in New Zealand is way more world class than anything happening there right now! Damn that’s cool of her to say, don’t you think?
Welcome aboard Perrine. We think you’re going to be a great addition this year. Come on in everybody, and see the results of our new hot apprentice.