My Boden Shopping Party in aid of Cancer Research UK
After a chance meeting with Sarah Bell (Boden shopping party co-ordinator for the North West ) I found myself agreeing to host a Boden Shopping Party at my house. As a Personal Stylist who works for myself, I was wanting to hold an event to invite friends and clients to and this seemed to be the perfect opportunity to get everyone together to have a dress up and a pamper.
What I didn’t expect and was delighted at was the arrival of 500 Boden samples delivered to my house one wet Wednesday morning. The support and organisation I received from Boden was excellent.
And what a great idea – Boden entrusted me with all their beautiful garments for 24 hours and all I had to do was invite lots of people, allow them to try them these beautiful clothes and take their orders. 10% of which went direct to Cancer Research.
I couldn’t believe my luck, my house had turned into a shop, I was doing what I love to do: to share my passion, my experience as a personal stylist, working for over 30 years in the industry and styling hundreds of fabulous ladies. I was overjoyed and my husband was horrified !!!
And an even better idea was to make my shopping event benefit everybody and raise money for charity a win-win for everyone. So for every garment sold, Boden donated 10% to my charity and for brand new customers it was 15%.
In addition Boden sent generous raffle prizes and a spotty Boden apron for the first 30 customers !
A great fund raising package for which I thank them wholeheartedly.
Now to the clothes… the best bit!
Many of my personal styling clients came to the party for an update and some advice in choosing summer outfits. We had fun putting these outfits together with the variety of colours, textures, shapes and sizes all here under one roof – it gave me a unique opportunity to style outfits for all occasions.
I found to my delight that Boden clothing is excellent quality and well priced with a hefty 22% discount and free p&p – it was a great deal. Boden is only sold online or from the catalogue so the beauty of the party is that you can try them on for size and Boden send a variety of sizes. However, my only feedback is that there were hardly any size 12 trousers for people to try.
Boden specialise in colour which is great as there is often a shortage of brights on the high street even in the summer.
I loved this as I am going to be undertaking some colour advanced training this autumn and this highlighted how important it is when it comes to dressing my clients.
It was a great day which I think everyone involved enjoyed I haven’t even got to the refreshments: home-made cakes, nibbles, raffle etc.
We haven’t had a final figure of money raised but we think it is about £500 – I will update when it is confirmed.
Many thanks to all those who came, helped, shopped, baked and cleared up. It was a huge success and all because of your help xx
If you would like to book a personal stylist 1-1 or a wardrobe make-over, pop me an email sylvia@sylviawoodger.co.uk or give me a call 07912 408578. I would love to hear from you.
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