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| Hibiscusmatters May 6, 2015 16 Ball feature Silverdale Hall • Ph 427 5542 Principal: Norma Wright Childrens & Adults dancing lessons Ballroom • New vogue Classical sequence • Latin American • Wedding parties Modern sequence • Social fun classes Mon–Sat | Late nights: Tues–Fri | Off street parking available 29E Silverdale St, Silverdale Village | Ph 426 8113 The team @ alternatives hair are very excited and proud to announce the arrival of Dominique to the salon. She is looking forward to welcoming existing & new clients to the salon. Choice of 10 suits shirts & ties School Ball Special... 8 Bakehouse Lane, Orewa Ph/Fax 426 5438 | www.dresscircle.co.nz Melanie Sherer has been a florist for more than 25 years and likes to put her creative flair to work on floral accessories for ball goers. She says creating floral jewellery to go with a ballgown can involve adding beads, decorative wire, mini succulents, diamantes, crystals, pearls, glitter or feathers to enhance the main blooms and to make them modern and funky. “I like each piece to be a work of art,” she says. “Even with a traditional wrist corsage I will add just a touch of something different.” Those who have watched 15-year-old ballroom dance partners Raymond Carter and Sasha Paunovic in competition say they appear to glide across the floor, effortlessly, in a way that gives spectators goose bumps. Judges obviously agree – the couple have won so many NZ competitions they struggle to name them all, but one that they won’t forget is last month’s Queensland Open Champs where they won four championship titles. The competition attracted dancers from Australia, NZ, the UK and America and in Richard and Sasha’s Junior, Level Four, division they were the only Kiwi couple. The pair took the Open Ballroom, Open New Vogue, Open Latin and Eight Dance trophies. One of the secrets to their success is that they have been dancing together for 10 years – one of the longest standing partnerships that Silverdale Ballroom dance teacher Norma Wright has ever seen. Richard lives in Puhoi and goes to Mahurangi College, while Sasha is at Orewa College and lives in Whangaparaoa and they met when their parents brought them to Norma at Silverdale Ballroom Studio to learn to dance. Both say that they immediately took to it and never looked back. Sasha says the fact that they’re both quite competitive and take their dancing seriously makes the partnership work well. “Communication is important and we support and encourage each other,” she says. Keeping fit is also key. As well as various sports and gym work, the pair train at North Shore Dance Centre two or three times a week and have now left Junior competition behind – this season they are in the Youth Division for 16–21. “We have to start at the bottom again and make our way to the top,” Sasha says. With school ball season upon us, teenagers may be showing an interest in learning ballroom dancing styles. Classes are available at Silverdale Ballroom Studio, phone Norma, 427 5542. Raymond and Sasha swept up four championship trophies at the Queensland Open. Photo, dancesportphoto.net Coast dancing stars win Australian competition Floral art for the wrist, by Bloomin’ Krazy of Dairy Flat. Fresh blooms with flair She says this season’s styles are very traditional, with lots of roses and orchids in demand. Since last September she has run her business, called Bloomin Krazy, part time from home at Dairy Flat, which she says allows her to keep her rates affordable. Her goal is to eventually give up her office job and open a shop on the Hibiscus Coast. Shop 2/707 Whangaparaoa Road Ph 027 251 1780 | [email protected] New & quality recycled womens clothing “From T-shirts to tiaras” Sizes 6 to 20 Tuesday–Saturday: 10am–4pm Huge range of ball gowns Lindyloo s Recycled Fashion Lindyloo s Recycled Fashion

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Ball feature

Silverdale Hall • Ph 427 5542Principal: Norma Wright

Childrens & Adults dancing lessonsBallroom • New vogue Classical sequence • Latin American • Wedding parties Modern sequence • Social fun classes

Mon–Sat | Late nights: Tues–Fri | Off street parking available

29E Silverdale St, Silverdale Village | Ph 426 8113

The team @ alternatives hair are very excited

and proud to announce the arrival of Dominique

to the salon.

She is looking forward to welcoming existing & new clients to the salon.

Choice of 10 suits

shirts & ties

School Ball Special...

8 Bakehouse Lane, OrewaPh/Fax 426 5438 | www.dresscircle.co.nz

Melanie Sherer has been a florist for more than 25 years and likes to put her creative flair to work on floral accessories for ball goers.She says creating floral jewellery to go with a ballgown can involve adding beads, decorative wire, mini succulents, diamantes, crystals, pearls, glitter or feathers to enhance the main blooms and to make them modern and funky.“I like each piece to be a work of art,” she says. “Even with a traditional wrist corsage I will add just a touch of something different.”

Those who have watched 15-year-old ballroom dance partners Raymond Carter and Sasha Paunovic in competition say they appear to glide across the floor, effortlessly, in a way that gives spectators goose bumps.Judges obviously agree – the couple have won so many NZ competitions they struggle to name them all, but one that they won’t forget is last month’s Queensland Open Champs where they won four championship titles.The competition attracted dancers from Australia, NZ, the UK and America and in Richard and Sasha’s Junior, Level Four, division they were the only Kiwi couple.The pair took the Open Ballroom, Open New Vogue, Open Latin and Eight Dance trophies.One of the secrets to their success is that they have been dancing together for 10 years – one of the longest standing partnerships that Silverdale Ballroom dance teacher Norma Wright has ever seen.Richard lives in Puhoi and goes to Mahurangi College, while Sasha is at Orewa College and lives in

Whangaparaoa and they met when their parents brought them to Norma at Silverdale Ballroom Studio to learn to dance.Both say that they immediately took to it and never looked back.Sasha says the fact that they’re both quite competitive and take their dancing seriously makes the partnership work well.“Communication is important and we support and encourage each other,” she says.Keeping fit is also key. As well as various sports and gym work, the pair train at North Shore Dance Centre two or three times a week and have now left Junior competition behind – this season they are in the Youth Division for 16–21.“We have to start at the bottom again and make our way to the top,” Sasha says.With school ball season upon us, teenagers may be showing an interest in learning ballroom dancing styles. Classes are available at Silverdale Ballroom Studio, phone Norma, 427 5542.

Raymond and Sasha swept up four championship trophies at the Queensland Open. Photo,

dancesportphoto.net

Coast dancing stars win Australian competition

Floral art for the wrist, by Bloomin’

Krazy of Dairy Flat.

Fresh blooms with flair

She says this season’s styles are very traditional, with lots of roses and orchids in demand. Since last September she has run her business, called Bloomin Krazy, part time from home at Dairy Flat, which she says allows her to keep her rates affordable. Her goal is to eventually give up her office job and open a shop on the Hibiscus Coast.

Shop 2/707 Whangaparaoa Road Ph 027 251 1780 | [email protected]

New & quality recycled womens clothing “From T-shirts to tiaras” Sizes 6 to 20

Tuesday–Saturday: 10am–4pm

Huge range

of ball gowns Lindyloo’s Recycled Fashion

Lindyloo’s Recycled Fashion

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While the fashion conscious may be aware of trends such as white ball dresses with fitted bodices this season, by far the most important and undeniable trend is buying ballgowns online.As more and more parents of ball goers let their fingers do the walking on their smartphones to shop for dresses, so the numbers browsing retail clothing stores declines.Deirdra Anderson of Chocolates for Breakfast in Orewa has been selling elegant, high-end gowns for college balls for seven years and says in the last three she has noticed increasing numbers buying online.She says that the attraction of websites selling ball dresses is all about price.“What they are looking for online, is cheap ball gowns,” Deirdra says. “If you sell good quality, as we do, you can’t compete with those prices.”Last year Chocolates for Breakfast brought in a range of dresses in the $200–$300 price bracket to meet that market.Even so, she says girls often take photos of the dresses, sometimes to show others but more often, she suspects, to look for something similar but cheaper online.She says some clothing retailers opt to charge people to try things on, although she is not doing this, because they are sick of wasting time with those who plan to buy the item online.Deirdra has seen what can happen

when buying online results in disappointment.“Parents tell me that they bought online and the colour and fit aren’t right. There is often no come back. Having alterations done can cost a lot and even where dresses can be returned, postage soon eats away at any savings made on a purchase,” she says.She says another advantage of shopping at your local store is that she holds a ball register for every college to avoid girls turning up in the same dress.As well as overseas imports, the popularity of Trade Me as a source of new and second hand ball dresses is growing rapidly. On Trade Me prices of ballgowns range from $150 to more than $400, so it’s not only price that is attracting customers.Hibiscus Matters’ Digital World columnist Pauline Stockhausen says online sales are all about convenience.“People are busy – it saves me time that my daughter is looking online for her ball dress,” Pauline says. “It also means you can find alternative options, including statement outfits such as steam punk. You can buy online using your phone while you’re waiting for the bus and there’s no need to take a day off work to go in and out of fitting rooms together. She can photograph a dress she likes and you can find something similar and buy it without leaving home. And it’s delivered.”

Selling ballgowns off the rack is becoming increasingly difficult due to the availability of online options. Photo taken at Chocolates for Breakfast.

Online options prove very tempting for ball goers

Coast ball datesThis year, as usual, Kingsway School held its school ball in summer, on March 28, at the Spencer on Byron. Next up is Orewa College, whose ball is on June 13 at Eden Park. The Wentworth College ball is on August 1, followed by Whangaparaoa College on August 22.