Concrete Playground

It's totally okay to go and spend your money at August's Big Fashion Sale. Not only will you be virtuously supporting the Australian fashion industry, you'll get the chance to try on and possibly go home with some very clever and attractive pieces of work.

The usual story of samples and seconds, these events are also a good way to hone your overall shopping fitness. Identifying items in sizes and styles relevant to you and evaluating them according to the 'amount you want them' x 'condition they're in' x 'actual saving' x 'how much money you have' formula, requires mental agility, budgeting and prioritising, which reinforces your 'responsible adult' powers. Not only that, the change rooms at these things are a yoga experience if solo and a lesson in how-to-not-elbow-people-while-not-meeting-their-eyes when communal.

This particular sale, in the new location of Darlinghurst's District 01, has pieces from Asuza Women's, Maurie & Eve, Shakuhachi, Lonely Hearts, Laurence Pasquier, Carly Hunter, Nathan Smith, Birthday Suit, Rittenhouse, Deadly Ponies, Ruby Smallbone, Elke Kramer, Nicola Finetti, myPetsQuare, Emma Jube, Seventh Wonderland, We Are Handsome, Story by Tang, Secret Squirrel, Shona Joy and Strummer. Options will run from denim to sparkles.