Archive for the ‘Fashion’ Category

Sportshoes As Fashion – More Recent Than You Realize

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 ...

Does a Recession Mean No More Nice Things?

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, ...

Fashion In Our Changing World

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 ...

Are Chanel Replicas Better Than The Real Chanel?

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 ...

Is there Price Fixing in Fashion?

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 ...

Why We All Deserve Nice Things

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 ...

Why Fashion Should Be Practical Too

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 ...

The Secret to Looking Your Best

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

We all try to look our best, and buy nice clothing, jewelry, accessories and the like. But it’s easy to forget the shoes. No matter how well you dress, a bad pair of shoes will ruin your whole look, whereas a nice pair of designer shoes matched carefully ...

Does a Recession Necessarily Mean Austerity?

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

It seems that every day we read the news, it gets that little bit worse. Recession, unemployment, job layoffs, deficits all seem to be contributing to the gloom, and we seem to be entering a new age of austerity. With this austerity comes a desire to economize by ...

How Replicas Have Changed This Decade

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

The time in which we live accelerates at a breathtaking pace sometimes, with improvements coming almost daily. We look back at even ten years ago, with clunky cellphones, primitive PCs running Windows 95, and internet connections at 28K and we see just how fast our technology moves. One ...