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Self: 100% linenLining: 100% cotton. Made in China. Dry clean only. Front button closure. Waist belt with buckle closure. Our Style No. ZMER-WD538. Manufacturer Style No. 5751DHIG.

Founded as a ready to wear line by sisters Nicky and Simone Zimmermann, the label soon expanded into swimwear and won an immediate, loyal following among Australias tastemakers and trendsetters by being one of the first brands to fuse swimwear with fashion. The blending together of flattering, sexy silhouettes with bold color & print choices allowed Zimmermanns sculptural bikinis and one-pieces to become the new point of reference for haute swimwear while its ready to wear collection took their signature style from the beach to the streets. In addition to swim and ready to wear, Zimmerman has extended into kids and accessories?truly making it a lifestyle destination.

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A nod to the nautical, the High Tide shirt dress from Zimmermann showcases a sailboat-inspired print and buttons. Made from pure linen, the mini-length design is finished with a removable belt.

• Lining: 100% cotton
• Made in China
• Material: 100% linen
• Designer color name: Blue Sailboats
• Pockets: side slit pockets
• Closure: buttoned front
• Care instructions: dry clean
• Detachable belt
• Item number: P00753374
• True to size
• Cinched waist
• Adjustable at the waist
• Mid-weight material
• The model seen in the picture is 178cm-5'10" and wearing a size 0
• Consult our Size Guide

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Blue Sail Boat High Tide Shirt Mini Dress SKU: 11367880

• Zimmermann Blue Sail Boat High Tide Shirt Mini Dress
• Notch lapel
• ¾ length bell sleeves
• Button down front closure
• Removable buckle belt; self fabrication
• Nautical buttons and buckle detail
• Side slip pockets
• Fit and flare silhouette
• Mini length
• 100% linen outer, 100% cotton lining

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• Within the ZIMMERMANN corporate group. We may share your identifiers, commercial information, internet activity information, and inferences regarding the described categories of information within our corporate family, such as our subsidiaries or affiliates to the extent permitted by law. The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest in carrying out or business operations efficiently. If you register with the Zimmermann client database, your personal information will be managed by Zimmermann Wear Pty Ltd, an entity in the same corporate group.
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• With Your Consent. Apart from the reasons identified above, we may request your permission to use or share your personal information for a specific purpose. We will notify you and request consent before you provide the personal information, or before the personal information you have already provided is used or shared for such purpose. You can revoke your consent at any time..
• As Zimmermann is part of an international network and uses global services, your personal information may be shared with other Zimmermann group entities and stored overseas in accordance with applicable legislation, including in Ireland. Zimmermann adopts all appropriate security measures and safeguards to ensure an appropriate level of data security.

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In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose with the following categories of third parties:

• We have disclosed your identifiers and internet activity information to companies that provide us with IT systems support.
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• We have disclosed your identifiers, and internet activity information to IT support and data analytics providers to detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and to identify and repair Site errors that impair functionality.

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We have also disclosed personal information you have shared with us, like your identifiers and commercial information, with our corporate family, including our affiliates, to exchange business intelligence. In both circumstances, we may also share inferences made from the aforementioned categories of personal information. You may opt-out of this sharing practice by contacting us at  [email protected] .

We make all reasonable efforts to ensure that your personal information is stored securely, both in electronic and physical form, and otherwise protect it from misuse, interference and loss caused by unauthorized access, modification or disclosure with security measures such as access controls. Our employees and agents are obliged to treat any personal information held by us confidentially.

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We will retain your personal information until the earlier of (i) the information is no longer necessary to accomplish the purpose for which it was provided; or (ii) we delete your information pursuant to your request. We retain your personal information for longer periods for specific purposes to the extent that we are obliged to do so in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and/or as necessary to protect our legal rights or for certain business requirements. Below are some more specific reasons we would retain some data for longer periods of time:

• Security, Fraud & Abuse Prevention. For example, to protect you, other people, and us from fraud, abuse, and unauthorized access.
• Financial Record-Keeping. When you make a payment to us we are often required to retain this information for a longer period of time for purposes of accounting, dispute resolution, and compliance with tax, anti-money laundering, and other financial regulations
• Comply With Legal or Regulatory Requirements. To meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, as required to enforce our terms of service, including investigation of potential violations
• Direct Communications With Us. If you have directly communicated with us, we may retain reasonable records of those communications.

Even if you delete your account or personal information, please keep in mind that the deletion by our third-party providers may not be immediate and that the deleted information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time.

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• Following the instructions at the bottom of our Newsletter communications
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In accordance with the Australian Privacy Act you have rights to access your personal information, correct your personal information, opt-out of direct marketing and make a complaint if you believe your personal information has been mishandled.

If you are concerned about how we have handled your personal information, please let us know and we will try to fix it. Please contact the “Privacy Officer” at  [email protected] ,  +61 1800 738 895  or 120 Dunning Avenue, Rosebery Sydney NSW, 2018. To request access to or erasure of your information, please contact  [email protected] . We will respond to you within 30 days.

If you are not satisfied with how we have handled your complaint, you can ask us to review your complaint or you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

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Uniform Policy for 2023-24

• Letter from Board Chairman, Luke Jankovic
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The most exciting period of time in the chronicles of Moscow since Napoleon fled the burning city, set on fire by its inhabitants themselves. And I was there and witnessed it all. In fact, I took part in all the excitement joining the crowd or procession of demonstrators marching in some protest and clamouring some political slogans. I did not understand much of what it was about, and cared less, the general commotion and excitement was my interest. Within this short time, I saw the fall of the three-hundred-years old Tsardom, the short-lived revolutionary regime of Kerensky and the Great Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. But, let us start from the beginning.

In 1915, Moscow was packed with refugees from the parts of Russia occupied by the German army. It was very hard to find a suitable apartment for the family, and father made an appropriate arrangement for our arrival. The three girls: Lola, Genia and Rola were sent to an exclusive boarding-school run by a French lady by name Mme. Abreille (the spelling is an invention of mine, in Russian it was spelled the way it was pronounced) for daughters of prominent citizens. It was a total immersion in French, including the classes. A remark is in order. For the last two, three centuries, the Russian aristocracy considered the French language to be the proper way of communication in the civilized world. The Russian language was too crude and was spoken by lower classes and peasants. Hence, respect to everything associated with France. But back to my sisters. After a short initial period, the girls loved the environment, the life style, the discipline. Whenever mother accompanied by me visited them, they showed their enthusiasm to their new place and their impatience of wasting their time with us, while the other girls had some organized occupation elsewhere. So much for the girls.

Mother, father and myself lived in a suite in Hotel Europa. There were two rooms, one was a combination of living-dining-den, the other - bedroom of my parents. The hotel was a residential type, in other words, the guests lived there for a prolonged time. It had four floors and many rooms for social meetings. The reason I am describing the building with such details is that the hotel became my new world to explore. After a while, I became known to all the residents and the hotel staff, and I had access to places forbidden to outsiders, like: telephone-exchange, boiler-room, warehouse, etc. There was another boy of my age belonging to a Polish family residing in the hotel, and we two played all day pretending to be world explorers.

No, I did not go to school yet and father engaged a university student to come to the hotel for two hours every week-day to prepare me for entering a regular school the next year. My tutor’s name was Mondryzhack and I don’t know what he was doing during the night. Many times, when I monotonously was reading a certain text from the book in front of me, his eyes started closing and after a while the guy fell asleep. I immediately stopped reading, found something different to amuse myself with after I turned about ten pages further. After a certain time, Mondryzhack awoke embarrassed, pretending to clean his nose and at that moment I started reading the text as if all the time I was diligently doing my business while he was sleeping. I had also other problems with the fellow. He used to give some homework which I did not do being too busy playing around in the building (Do I have to remind you about the four floors to explore?). Sometimes, Mondryzhack lost his patience with me, took the telephone standing on the desk at which we were working and looking viciously at me called my father at his office complaining that I again did not do my homework. This situation promised either a beating or some severe reprimand. However, I was prepared and used my strategy. In collusion with mother, I simply disappeared. When father came home in the evening, I was not there. When asked, mother said that I was somewhere around and she did not know where. I was safe in the building and there was no worry that I might be lost. Late in the night, father went to his bedroom to read some paper or book. Mother opened slightly the door leading to the corridor and it was a signal for me that all was clear. I slept on the sofa in the living room. Next morning, while father had breakfast in the room, I pretended that I was still asleep and waited until he left. This way, the immediate confrontation was avoided and, after a while, it petered out.

We stayed in hotel Europa for a full year. It was situated in the heart of the city, five minutes away from the Bolshoi Theater, almost across the street from the world-famous "Metropole" hotel. With the girls off her hands, mother spent a lot of time with me. We visited picture galleries, museums, did a lot of sight-seeing, went shopping and browsing. At that time, Moscow had two shopping malls that would impress even the contemporary tourist. One was in a gigantic building in the Red Square, parallel to the Kremlin. It consisted of three parallel longish alleys with two floors of elegant stores brimming with merchandise. Many foreign famous companies had their outlets there, the general atmosphere was grandiose. At time of the Soviet Union, the mall was called G.U.M. ("Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin") and I had a chance to visit it repeatedly sixty years later. A urine-stinking place, with row upon row of depressing looking stores, open but with bare shelves or displaying some extremely shoddy shoes or apparel, maybe some souvenirs made of wood (the well-known "matrioshka"s), a pitiful picture. I brought home some pictures to prove my impression. But, back to me at the age of eight. Quite often, mother took me to a place where they were serving Jewish dinners (every Jew in Moscow knew about the "Lurie’s" place. Otherwise, mother would prepare full course dinners right in the hotel room using a petroleum fed stove called "Primus," a conspiratorial procedure the hotel would not tolerate. The Metropole hotel housed two cinemas, and mother took me often to see a movie, sometimes both theatres one after the other.

In fall 1916, we finally found a suitable apartment. The building was in the same street as Mme Abraille’s boarding school, three minutes away from it, and the street itself extended to the historically noted Arbat street. The idea was that my sisters could live at home and attend classes as before. I also started attending school which was about 30 minutes away from our place. I mentioned before that Moscow was full of refugees, and to accommodate their children in existing schools it was necessary to start afternoon sessions in the available facilities. I was attending the afternoon classes, 2 PM to 6 PM, which I did not like at all. Our apartment was actually the lower part of a duplex and the latter was one of the five arranged in a letter "L" with a huge courtyard. There were other boys of my age living in the project and we became friends, however, they attended the regular school in the mornings when I was all alone and idle, and vice versa in the afternoon. At first, somebody (mostly our domestic) took me to the school and waited for me in the evening when I was through with classes, but after a time, I rebelled embarrassed by the arrangement, and was allowed to march the distance by myself.

Father’s business in Moscow was just a small version of what he left in Warsaw. First of all, he was cut off from the source of supply in Western Europe, second his clientele, the retail stores, lost their customers too. These were bad times, news from the war front were not good, womens’ hats somehow mirrored the depressed mood of the population. The business situation became even gloomier when the revolution and the total social upheaval made everybody wish to look proletarian as a form of self-protection.

I am not going to describe the political events that took place one after another; the fall of the Tsar’s reign, the new regime by Kerensky with its many new regulations, and finally the Bolshevik revolution that turned everything upside down. Hundreds and hundreds of books were written on the subject, my business is to describe the impressions of a boy of ten and eleven. Our house was only a few minutes away from the Arbat street which was on the route of passing demonstrators of various political factions. When I heard the noise of the approaching procession, it was my business to run to the corner and join in the excitement whatever was their grievance. Let me give an example of a boy’s reaction to the changed circumstances. Back in the times of Tsar (1916), the population was allowed access to the Kremlin, a huge area surrounded by a heavy wall built, I think, in the 16th century. It contained government buildings, cathedrals and monuments. To enter the Kremlin, we had to pass a gigantic tunnel-like gate, one of several leading to the fortress. One day, mother announced that she was going to take me to visit the Kremlin. Father warned us that the gate we chose was called the "Blessed Gate" and all males were expected to bare their heads. Thus, before I entered the said gate I duly removed my cap from my head and looked around if everybody noticed my appropriate behaviour. Later on, after the revolutionary regime abolished the influence of the church, I was marching through the same Kremlin gate with my cap solidly on my head and checking if everybody around was aware of my revolutionary spirit.

The change of the regime did not come overnight. There was a civil war right in city of Moscow and right in the district we lived in. Not far from the street we lived in there was a Military Academy. The cadets and their big brass, having sworn allegiance to the Tsar, did not accept the new situation without a fight. Their cannon hit the roof of one of our five duplexes. Our entire family, as well as other tenants from our complex moved across the street to a four-floor building with a big basement. A close friend of mine lived in that building, and his mother, a widow with a much older daughter and another son invited me and one of my sisters to stay with them. The rest of the family, and our domestics found place in the basement sleeping on the floor. The fact that people left their apartments hiding in cellars encouraged robbers to break in and steal valuables. For protection, tenants of the building where we were hiding as well as some from the neighbouring house arranged a patrol service at both outlets of our short street blocking access to unknown individuals. Father had in his possession two hand-guns, just as collector items, so he was a valuable addition to the protective group. The fight was shortlived, after a few days we were able to return to our homes and I found quite a collection of shards of cannon shells which had exploded around our house.

Among many other changes, the revolution brought a new phenomenon - hunger. Food products, so abundant before, simply disappeared. Bread was rationed, at some time it was being issued only for children. The, so called, "black market" was severely persecuted. The "speculators" were arrested and shot. A tenant in one of our duplexes, a man by name Bezsmertnyi (I mention his name because in Russian it means "Immortal") was denounced by somebody, he was visited by the revolutionary committee and they found two sacks of flour, probably for the use of his own family. He was arrested as a speculator and, as the rumour circulated among the neighbours, executed the same day.

Father, somehow, was able to get food because the family did not go desperately hungry. Once he got somewhere a supply of lump-sugar. We kept it in the old-fashioned tiled heating stoves hidden under the ashes. When I was very hungry, I took a lump of sugar and climbed on the roof of our house. An iron ladder was attached to the house leading to a garret which served for hanging the washing. A few steps further led to the roof. The latter was steeply tilted and when I placed my feet in the rain gutter I was comfortably leaning back having a full view of the Arbat street and its traffic. This was my favourite escape place, and, moreover, no one saw me sucking my lump of sugar. There were cases that a passer-by noticed a kid sitting in this precarious position and started shouting at me to get down. Of coarse, he was right. If the rickety gutter gave way under the weight of my body I would slip down three floors and break my neck. As you correctly guessed, it did not happen.

I have to give father full credit for providing food for the family in those times. We children did not ask questions, at meal times we gathered around the table and ate whatever was being served by mother. My closest friend, the one from across the street (his name was Lew Abelman) who used to come to our courtyard to play with the boys, was frequently invited to have dinner with us and he readily complied. We happened to know that his mother, the widow, had problem with feeding children. Lew was one year my senior, an intellectual type. He was the first one to take me to the lending library and indicated the books to read. He and myself visited picture galleries, museums or were just roaming around in more remote districts of the city for fun. Let me mention a curious thing that happened to me in 1972. I was 65 and this was my last year of work with C.N.R. before my retirement. At that time Canada and the Soviet Union had signed an agreement on mutual cooperation in science and technology. The Soviet railways invited a Canadian delegation of experts to visit their country. Within C.N.R. I was known as an expert on languages and the high brass invited me to come along as an interpreter. In Moscow, we stayed in the Intourist hotel, a short distance from the Bolshoi Theatre. One day, when we had some time free from conferences and official gatherings, the C.N.R. chief engineer who was an avid photographer asked me to accompany him in a short walk to Bolshoi to take some snapshots of this landmark. In front of the theatre there is a small park and in this park I used to play as a boy of eight when we lived in hotel Europa. I was visibly excited with memories of those times and told my companion about my feelings. Then I looked at the people sitting on the benches. I was not drunk, I had no hallucinations, but I will swear that on one of the benches was sitting Lew Abelman, an elderly man now, with a woman, presumably his wife . At this moment, three Soviet soldiers came in front of the Bolshoi posing for their comrade. My companion saw an opportunity to bring home a picture of himself with representatives of the Red Army. He pushed his camera into my hands and asked me to click. When I was through with this task and turned around, the pair was gone. I desperately looked around in all directions, meaning to chase the man, to stop him and ask: "Lew, don’t you know who I am?" I am a level-headed man, and I refuse to believe that at that moment I was a victim of a mirage. Within the next 8 years I visited Moscow maybe 30 times, saw places familiar to me from the times of my early childhood, but never again was I subject to such deep sentiments.

Back to the 1916-1919 period. When I was 9, a doctor established that my adenoids should be removed. In those times it was apparently considered a serious procedure. Anyway, I found myself in a hospital and, although I do not remember the pre-operation situation, I do remember lying in a bed all alone in a big room bare of other furnishing except one or two chairs. After the operation, mother was sitting beside my bed and a nurse was present too. Suddenly, a hemorrhage happened, a wave of blood spilling out of my mouth. The nurse explained to my panicked mother that it was a normal event, nothing to worry about. Next morning, mother being busy elsewhere, father came to sit with me. This time there was no nurse in the room, when a hemorrhage happened again and I jumped in the bed. Father panicked pressing the buzzer for nurse and not knowing what to do. With my mouth full of blood I managed to utter a few words: "This is nothing, it was like this before." Then the nurse appeared and took care of the situation. However, father was so impressed by my cold-blooded (what an appropriate expression!) behaviour that it became a subject of a legend. Moreover, when I came home from the hospital a wristwatch was waiting for me, the first watch in my life.

As I mentioned before, the period following the October revolution brought a lot of misery and general animosity towards everything that reminded the proletarian population of former aristocracy and the wealthier part of the population. Under the pretense of fighting the counter-revolutionaries, houses, businesses and other private properties were confiscated, people were deprived of their basic necessities, thrown out in the street. Father was lucky, his business remained open though little income could be expected in the prevailing atmosphere of proletarization. The Bolshevik regime signed a separate peace agreement with Germany, the war in Europe continued. Father decided that the family did not belong in these circumstances and it was time to get back to Warsaw which was still under German occupation. In our five duplexes, only a few neighbours were still living, the rest moved to the provinces where life was easier. Of my many friends, only Lew was there, and I reluctantly said good-bye to him.

The plan was that father would take us to a point where he would be sure that we are close to our destination, and then he would return to Moscow to liquidate his business and the apartment with its furnishing. Whatever was planned to come along was packed and we travelled to the rail station. Trains were running haphazardly, and we spend two days in the station waiting for our train. The train took us west to a small town on the border of no-man’s land between Russia and the German-occupied territory. From there, we were on our own. We arrived at a private house which served as a guest-house and where we met other travellers in a similar situation. We spent there a week or two until father somehow found a solution. An officer of the closest border unit of the Red Army agreed to take us through the no-man’s territory as close to the German border as possible. I don’t know what was the negotiated amount of money father was paying, what I do know was that father’s gold pocket watch with its heavy chain changed hands too. Late in the night, two horse-drawn wagons, each driven by a soldier arrived at our place, our belongings were loaded, and we were seated: parents and Rola on one, Lola, Genia and myself as well as the officer on the second one. We were travelling the whole night, mostly in a dense forest. I can only assume that both parents were realizing the risk they were taking. The three army-men could rob us of all our belongings and money, and abandon us in the forest or kill the entire family. I know for a fact that mother carried on herself hidden a substantial amount of money for upkeep of herself and the children in Warsaw while father was in Moscow. Well, it did not happen, in the morning we arrived at a small village already in the German-occupied part of Russia. Here we said good-bye to our after all honest escort, and the local peasants took us with our luggage a short distance to the rail station of the town called Konotop. Both parents were fluent in German and the officer of the occupation unit was very gallant and outgoing. We were given a comfortable place in the station and prepared for a long wait for the train to take us directly to Warsaw. Father stayed with us until we were seated in the compartment of the train and we said good-bye to him little knowing that it will take one year or so until we would see him again.

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