Wondering what sort of colours and styles we’ll be seeing this Spring and Summer? Lutheran Care’s head of Op Shops, Babs Deane, shares some of her top tips!
Think bright this Spring and Summer. There will be lots of beautiful bright prints, many based around nature. If you go for green, pink, orange, red, and yellow, all mixed together like a English garden, you will be up to the minute in the direction of colours this season! You just can’t feel unhappy when you wear them, they put joy in your step.
There are lots of fleshy cut away bits in tops, dresses and pants. We’ll be seeing evening wear, particularly in jewel colours, with cutout midriff, back, front, or hips, or bare shoulders.
Team these gowns with very thin stilettoes, and teeny weeny bags, and you’ll look like a goddess.
In high summer who can ever go past white, to feel cool and cohesive in a loose wide leg pant and floating top? Spacious, smart, and almost ethereal. Nothing looks more classy than a natural linen floating dress or trouser and matching top.
It’s the accessories that are really making the statement this year: big bold earrings, lots of colour, or brushed silver or gold with shoes to match.
The colour palette is all about bright and bold in shoes, and the small little minimalist bags: no kitchen sink in these bags, girls! Just your phone, lippy and credit card: you’re travelling light!
Men’s fashion is looking all French Riviera: lots of linen pants, natural tees and even vests with leather sandles, so you look either really relaxed and playful or like you’re on a pilgrimage!
Faux tortoise shell is all the go for sunglasses, and stainless steel jewellery on wrists and fingers complete the look.
White tuxedo formal jackets and black pants is what’s about in the manly formal wear.
About our Op Shops
Lutheran Care has six Op Shops across the Adelaide and Barossa Valley regions.
The three Elcies stores are boutique-style second-hand retail outlets. Elcies stores stock ‘higher end’, branded goods, many new with tags. which have been handpicked by our sorters to save discerning thrifters time. Elcies stores are important fundraisers for Lutheran Care programs such as Emergency Relief.
The three Lutheran Care Op Shops are more traditional Op Shops. They sell an excellent range of good quality, affordable, second-hand goods for families on lower incomes, including Emergency Relief clients in receipt of Op Shop Vouchers, and bargain hunters alike.
Visit our Elcies stores at:
- 43-45 The Parade, Norwood
- 231 Military Road, Semaphore
- Shop 4/46 Murray Street, Tanunda
and visit our Lutheran Care Op Shops at:
- 307 Prospect Road, Blair Athol
- Shop 10, Smithfield Plains Shopping Centre, 240 Peachey Road, Smithfield Plains
- The Precinct, 112 Coventry Road, Smithfield Plains.
We are always accepting donations of clean, good quality clothing, accessories and other goods and we always welcome new volunteers who would like to have fun, make friends, learn or practise retail skills and give back to their community.
To find out more about our Op Shops, click here.