Archive for July, 2009
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
For over four thousand years, human beings have been drinking green tea, and for good reason. Green tea boasts an extensive list of health benefits, some which have only been discovered in recent years.
Green tea is, like black tea, produced from the plant Camellia sinensi, but its manner of production ...
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
It’s hard to imagine that when we look at shoes like the Nike Dunk, that this is a very modern phenomenon dating back barely twenty years. Yet we see basketball shoes as an item of fashion as almost timeless, and the Nike Air Jordan shoes have certainly been one ...
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
Judging by the latest economic data just released, things are going to be grim for a while longer. Government and personal debt are high, unemployment is higher, and deflation seems to be the current theme for a while longer. So what we as shopper shave to ask ourselves, ...
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
Our world seems to be changing continuously around us. Maybe it’s always been like this, but it now feels like this change is accelerating. It’s very pronounced in the world of shopping, where the current economic climate coupled with change in fashions has created a huge change in ...
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
One thing that really marks out the traditional European design houses is their conservatism. We’ve all seen the new range of Louis Vuitton products out this season, and to be honest, there isn’t anything revolutionary or drastically new. Not that we expected this. LV have always been ...
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
Now that the major fashion shows are over, we can take stock of all the new innovation that have happened this year. Innovation though is perhaps a strong word to use for Chanel, one of the most conservative of all the major European design houses. There was always the ...
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
t’s becoming evident in the world of shopping that there is a large amount of price fixing going on with the higher end goods. People are now beginning to ask themselves why they should pay so much money for a pair of mens True Religion jeans when they ...
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
Sometimes shopping is not easy. We have to make decisions all the time, and some of them are difficult decisions. One of these issues that is very widely discussed in the fashion world at the moment is that over replica items, with the ethics and morals become more and more ...
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
We all love nice things, to have the best designer clothing, or the fanciest luggage. Unfortunately, most of us normal people can’t afford these things. So how do we get round this? Well, would you believe that you can get the same look of, say, Louis Vuitton ...
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
It’s probably a fair statement that the fashion world has ignored outdoor or practical clothing in general. When you look at the catwalks of Paris and Milan, you see the most outrageous clothing with minimal practicality. However they do this at their own peril. Most of us ...
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