INSIDE LINES: Sporting films and videos

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

All over the land they’re bending it like Beckham. Sporting films and videos are as much in fashion as replica shirts. The latest, featuring the life and times of Bobby Moore, has received rave reviews and it seems that if directors want a hit these days, they need to give it a sporting spin.So in all seriousness, I pass on the news that a young London- based Indian director has just shot a film of his own mother making samosas which he likens to the fight sequences in Raging Bull. According to Nilesh Patel, cooking is like a martial art, and he depicts the scenes of his mum rolling and folding the pastry as if they were rounds of boxing. The potato peeling is done to a background of Robert De Niro shadow boxing. I kid you not. “It is a celebration of skill, speed and accuracy but using female palms rather than a male gloved fist,” he says. Called A Love Supreme it lasts nine minutes and may sound like a load of old Bollywood but Patel is hoping Naseem Hamed will back the distribution of his “anti- racist comedy-drama”.

Buying Designer and Authentic Goods Online

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Due to the amazing success of eBay and Mom and Pop shops online, prices for premium and designer goods has dropped drastically. But like anything that sounds too good to be true, the same rule applies when it comes to finding “rock-bottom” deals online. Quite often, there is a very high price to pay for obtaining amazing deals, on otherwise out of reach merchandise.

Often times, the price reflects the quality……..in other words, it’s a FAKE!

EBay – The Worlds Largest Marketplace has had to take considerable steps to try and counter the ever growing fake trade market. In fact, some of the counterfeiters have become so good at creating copies that some of the original manufacturers have a hard time distinguishing fakes from real.

There are a few eBay sellers and “corporate police” that have decided to take this growing trend into their own hands. As of December 2006, eBay began a massive effort on targeting and ridding themselves of sellers that were pushing down the value of these premium brands. Another site, Reddmark.com, which was inspired to counteract this trend, also has taken great lengths to ensure that their customers are able to shop without fear of purchasing illegal merchandise.

While eliminating counterfeit merchandise is probably impossible to do, there are ways to protect yourself from becoming a victim. The first thing is obviously to avoid those “too good to be prices”

Fashionably Speaking - fashion trends

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Experts discuss emerging industry trends and how these changes impact African Americans

WHO DECIDES WHAT’S HOT AND WHAT’S NOT in the fashion business? Nowadays, consumers determine which designs make the cut, what occasions are appropriate for their new threads and how much they’re going to pay for them. They also define which industry players get the most play and which ones become demode.

So where is the apparel industry headed in the new millennium? We’ve spotted five forces: a more casually dressed workforce, the decreasing popularity of department stores, the emergence of urbanwear, a stronger voice among youth and the integration of technology into the fashion arena–that seem to be putting an end to fashion as we know it. But change can be a good thing, as long as African Americans position themselves to be both the driving force behind, and the beneficiaries of, it.

kickin’ it in khakis for business

For companies, it’s not business as usual as far as attire is concerned. Casual Fridays have become a year-round custom and “dressing down means that people will spend less money on clothes than they have in the past,” suggests Teri Agins, author of The End of Fashion (Morrow, $25). In fact, casual wear is a key market driver for apparel sales with the most robust growth reported among dressed-down garments, such as sweaters, casual pants and shorts. In 1999, sales for men’s tailored apparel took a dive of .5% while sales from women’s tailored apparel was up only 1.9%, according to market information provider the NDP Group Inc. Designers of high-fashion garments beware!

department stores downslide

As dressing down gains in popularity, so do specialty retailers and discounters–and they do this at the expense of department stores, which are losing market share. According to NPD, discount stores–which include retailers such as Kmart and Wal-Mart–have surpassed department stores in market share since 1995, and are continuing to widen their lead. With a 7% revenue gain in 1999, discount stores were able to capture more than a 20% market share of apparel dollars. Not only were discount stores the fastest-growing retail channel, but last year’s market share was a new high.

fashion goes high-tech

“You don’t have to travel to meet a person face-to-face because you can e-mail your work and designs, [thus] becoming an international player in the global market,” points out Joyce Brown, president of the Fashion Institute of Technology. Designers are using computers to refine designs, e-mail sketches, develop three-dimensional animated images, organize projects and eliminate the paperwork that was once an inescapable part of doing business. Plus, e-commerce largely impacts the industry as companies and consumers conduct transactions over the Web. In 1999, online apparel sales reached a high of $1.1 billion. “Now it doesn’t matter where you’re from or who you are, as long as you can create the designs that are in demand and get your styles seen,” says Brown. “Technology is going to make a tremendous difference in how the industry ends up being formed and how people break in.”

hip-hop hits new heights

“The biggest success that blacks are having now are with hip-hop clothes,” remarks Constance C.R. White, former fashion director of Talk magazine and author of Stylenoir: The First How-to Guide to Fashion Written With Black Women in Mind (Perigee, $15). “The influence of hip-hop culture has opened the door for young entrepreneurs to come in with urban clothing.” Traditionally, industry professionals looked for fashion trends in Europe, but now [they look] to New York for inspiration, says Mark-Evan Blackman, chairman of the men’s wear design program for the Fashion Institute of Technology.

movement to mix and match brand labels

As the baby boomers cruise into retirement, their children are bringing their own flair to the fashion arena. “Our generation is much more comfortable with fashion than [our] parents, and [we’re] willing to mix and match [our] clothing,” says 30-year-old designer Anthony Mark Hankins, who has an atelier in Dallas. His fashions are sold in Sears and on the Home Shopping Network. He says no one sports one designer label throughout their ensemble these days, especially since you can get cheap but chic looks from various specialty stores. According to Hankins, Gen Xers aren’t afraid to “put a number of labels on their backs and not think about it.”

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How can African Americans capitalize on the latest trends in the fashion industry

1 Consider working for a more established label. Learn the trade from an experienced business professional and establish a track record before stepping out on your own (see “Employed by Design,” this issue).

2 Find your niche. Build your brand on a smaller scale by targeting discount retailers, smaller specialty stores or unique customers.

3 Give consumers what they want. If the demand for high-fashion apparel is decreasing, consider another segment of the industry, like urbanwear (see “Hip-hop on Top.” this issue).

Wildean Philosophy with a Needle and Thread: Consumer Fashion at the Origins of Modernist Aesthetics

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

In 1891, Oscar Wilde published his essay, “The Soul of Man under Socialism,” a work that proclaims the value of socialism and that defends the artist against a bourgeois public: Wilde thus takes a stance against consumer culture.1 He attacks consumer culture as embodied in popular periodical culture (and public opinion), which “makes use of journalists,” and even gives “absolute freedom to journalists, [while it] entirely limits the artist” (1969, 277). Yet less than a year later, his play Lady Windermere’s Fan, was a box office success at a major West End theater. Wilde thus turns to the genre most oriented to the mass audience, and most implicated in consumer industries like entertainment, decoration, and fashion. Also, of great significance to my point, the play was so obviously a vehicle for marketing expensive fashion that when the summer parody of the play was put up, the main character’s name was “Lady Winterstock.”2

Critics have therefore been somewhat unsure of, and even uncomfortable with, Wilde’s relationship to consumer culture. For example, even as Regenia Gagnier links Wilde with his contemporaries’ “critiques of industrial capitalism and mass society,” she chooses to qualify her claim: “The cornmodification of Wilde and his works, of the artist in general and bohemian artists in particular, in consumer society, complicates the pursuit of individuality and freedom of thought and expression” (2000, 27). Gagnier is in the end disappointed in Wilde. He is not the anti-consumerist she wishes he were. John Sloan is more on track when he points out that Wilde’s very defense of the artist’s autonomy is itself implicated in consumerism: “the appeal to the ‘man of taste,’ the connoisseur, in arranging and decorating one’s surroundings, was an advanced version of capitalist consumerism” (2003,135).

Building on the work of Sloan and others, I argue that Wilde cannot make-and refuses to even conceive of-art that is not commodified. His is a consumer modernism. We get a glimpse of Wilde s ideas on this consumer-based aesthetic when, in “The Decay of Lying,” he playfully reworks the relationship between Art and Life. There he describes the impact of Pre-Raphaelite paintings on large numbers of middle- and upper-class women consumers.

We have all seen in our own day in England how a certain curious and fascinating type of beauty, invented and emphasised by two imaginative painters [D.G. Rossetti and E. Burne-Jones], has so influenced Life that whenever one goes to a private view or to an artistic salon one sees, here the mystic eyes of Rossetti’s dream, the long ivory throat, the strange, square-cut jaw, the loosened shadowy hair…. A great artist invents a type, and Life tries to copy it, to reproduce it in a popular form, like an enterprising publisher. (Wilde 1969, 307)

Rossetti’s paintings of Elizabeth Siddal were not just popular paintings that were reproduced over and over in prints. They created fashion styles and set trends in dress and interior design, those trends being reflected in popular Arts and Crafts wallpapers and popular “aesthetic dress” styles. And Wilde significantly links this fashion phenomenon to marketing within a mass culture-hence the reference to the “enterprising publisher.” For Wilde, to create a work of art necessarily entails the desire to impact a large audiencein other words to market, and in particular to market fashions.

Because he makes the desire to impact a mass audience so central, the elements of Wilde’s consumer aesthetic are superficial ornament and ephemeral public image-both of which he links to the theatrical. (seeing Wilde this way also makes sense of his move towards popular theater, a move that critics have tended to see as a financial necessity or as a move more subversive than participatory.) I further suggest that his concern with the surface and with the ephemeral was, ironically, a foundational element of what became twentieth-century modernism-thus we can call Wilde’s aesthetic a consumer-modernism, a root and branch of modernism that was largely erased (just as Wilde was erased from literary history by the early modernists). Ann Ardis (2002) devotes an entire chapter of her Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 1880-1922 to “Inventing literary traditions, ghosting Oscar Wilde and the Victorian fin de siècle. ” Ghosting Wilde was integral to inventing modernism. I argue-together with theorists like Ardis and Said-that there is no modernism without Wilde, and particularly without Wilde’s commitment to surface. Also, it is true that several high modernists used elements of consumer culture in their artistic creation-Joyce in Ulysses and Woolf in Mw. Dalloway, for example.3 The difference is that Wilde created art that was itself consumer culture.

These ideas come out more clearly when we place Wilde among the female aesthetes, the women who collaborated with him while he was writing about dress for the Pall Mall Gazette and editing the Woman’s World.4 As Schaffer and others point out, Wilde was developing his critical ideas at the same time that he was writing for a popular New Journalism press (the Gazette, for which he wrote 90 pieces) and editing a fashionable women’s magazine. He was editor of Woman’s World from 1887 to 1889.5 In a sense, Oscar Wilde editing the magazine counts as an extremely unusual event, as if we were to imagine Theodor Adorno editing Cosmopolitan, writing about Ralph Lauren(TM), and collaborating with Martha Stewart-in effect, producing mass culture rather than attempting its critique. Wilde was like an Adorno who could not do aesthetic philosophy in isolation from mass culture.

Fashion forward: Lauren “Daisy” Lewellyn takes the next step in her career

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Declaration of Financial Empowerment

From this day forward, I declare my vigilant and lifelong commitment to financial empowerment and hereby pledge the following:

1 I will use homeownership as a foundation for building wealth.

2 I will be proactive in managing my budget, credit, debt, and tax obligations.

3 I will maximize my earnings potential, live within my means, and commit to saving and investing at least 10% of my income.

4 I will ensure that my investments are properly diversified and correspond to my current financial goals.

5 I will immediately commit to a program of retirement planning and investing.

6 will preserve and protect my assets through proper financial and insurance planning.

7 I will ensure that my children receive a thorough education on financial and business matters.

8 I will ensure that my wealth is passed on to future generations through proper estate planning.

9 I will actively support the creation and growth of viable, competitive black-owned enterprises.

10 I will use a portion of my wealth to strengthen my community.

THE COMPETITION WAS TOUGH. LAST year, Lauren “Daisy” Lewellyn beat out thousands of applicants to win a slot on The Learning Channel’s reality show Dinner Takes All. The show’s premise was simple: Throw a dinner party for four stragers in your home and the host who throws the best soiree pockets $1,000. Contestants were awarded points based on food, presentation, and entertainment. Though Lewellyn came in second, the contest changed her life and enabled her to nearly double her income in less than a year.

When guests arrived at Lewellyn’s three-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, they found a “Summer in the City” complete with a lemonade stand, a candy bar, and a dessert bar with several choices. “Instead of one appetizer, I had six,” says the 27-year-old Howard University graduate, whose favorite was the grass popper bites (battered chicken on a wooden bamboo skewer on wheat grass).

“The dinner party was perfect because it combined everything I love,” says Lewellyn. During production she says the producer and director would pull her off to the side to give her compliments. “The camera crew said my personality was made for television, but I was just being myself.” The experience opened her eyes.

She says she took time off from work as an accessories editor at Essence, where she was clocking 12-hour days, and, after a vacation, came back with a plan. “I decided I was too stressed working that hard to build someone else’s name,” says Lewellyn. Her experience on the TV show made her embrace her love for event planning and television. After praying on the matter, she quit her job in September and began a freelance career as an event planner and a fashion, beauty, and lifestyle expert At the time, she was earning $56,000. But to help matters, she had a low credit card balance and about $9,000 in her portfolio.

To make the transition, Lewellyn notified her professional contacts about her job change. The week after she left her job she was offered several gigs: among them, one as a TV commentator for a fashion segment, one for event planning, two for public relations, one as a fashion consultant, and one as a stylist. She accepted what her demanding schedule would allow, invoicing $5,000 in six days.

But not every week was so lucrative. One week she received a check for $310 for a day’s work and that was it. Other weeks she made nothing, but took every opportunity to expand her business, whether or not she was paid. That’s a lesson she learned early in her career, when she met Preston Bailey, the famed go-to party planner for Oprah Winfrey and other celebrities. After a brief chat, she volunteered to work as an apprentice at one of his million-dollar weddings at the Waldorf-Astoria. “I did grunt work, but I did it with a smile on my face and because of that, even today, Preston is an awesome reference.”

Prior to her career change, Lewellyn had $750 in savings, which is nothing compared to her investments, to which at one time she committed nearly half of her paycheck. She routinely had a portion of her check go straight to her financial adviser. She contributed $200 every two weeks to a Roth IRA, which now totals $5,000. And her stake in the Davis NY Venture Growth Fund (NYVTX) now stands at $9,000 after a steady $300 contribution in the same two-year time frame.

Without a steady paycheck every week, Lewellyn initially found it difficult to budget. And there was always a question of when her client’s checks would arrive. Because her bills were due throughout the month, she arranged to have as many of her bills as possible due on the first or 15th. She had enough money coming in to meet her fixed expenses of $2,700, and whenever she was able, Lewellyn paid bills, such as her health insurance, in advance in anticipation of possible dips in her income.

For the first few months Lewellyn chose financing an emergency fund over her existing investment plan. After Lewellyn mastered the ebb and flow of her new career and established a two- to three-month cushion, she returned to her investing life. She now has $3,430 parked in a money market account and is also starting a new retirement savings account designed for the self-employed: either a Keogh plan or SEP IRA.

Chico’s and Fountain Fashions to Highlight the Latest Clothing Trends at Arizona Fine Art EXPO Fashion Shows

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

The first-annual Arizona Fine Art EXPO, a production of Thunderbird Artists, will host a collection of exclusive fashion shows featuring the latest clothing trends from Chico’s and Fountain Fashions. Each store will participate in multiple shows during the 10-week event.Chico’s, a retailer of exclusively designed, private-label women’s clothing and accessories, will first exhibit its fashions on Thursday, Jan. 20, from 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Representatives from the company will distribute gift cards during the demonstration. Additional shows are scheduled for Feb. 17, and March 17, from 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Models from Chico’s will display some of the latest fashions in casual, contemporary and travel wear for women.

Fountain Fashions, a boutique located in Fountain Hills, will also present at three shows, with the first on Thursday, Jan. 27, from 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Two more shows are planned for Feb. 24 and March 24. The times for both shows also run from 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

“In addition to being a showcase for some of the world’s most talented artists, the Arizona Fine Art EXPO is also about fashion. The exclusive styles offered by Chico’s and Fountain Fashions provide an ideal complement to the fine art that will be on display throughout the venue,” said Judi Combs, CEO of the Arizona Fine Art EXPO and president of Thunderbird Artists.

Chico’s sells exclusively designed, private-label women’s clothing and related accessories. The company operates 656 women’s specialty stores, including stores in 47 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, operating under the Chico’s, White House / Black Market and Soma by Chico’s names. The company owns 450 Chico’s front-line stores, 25 Chico’s outlet stores, 155 White House / Black Market front-line stores, four White House / Black Market outlet stores and 10 Soma by Chico’s stores; franchisees own and operate 12 Chico’s stores.

A fashion fixture in Fountain Hills for 31 years, Fountain Fashions sells “clothes with a statement” by specializing in casual to dressy women’s apparel. Among the clothing lines the company carries are Joseph Ribkoff, Blue Willis, Mesmerize, Fia Italia, Alberto Makali, Emil Rutenberg, Nancy Bolen, K.D. Spring, Christine Alexander and Christine Phillipe. From its 3,000-square-foot boutique in the Bashas’ Plaza on the corner of Palisades Boulevard and La Montana Drive, Fountain Fashions also carries Brighton handbags and accessories, as well as several leather lines.

About the Arizona Fine Art EXPO

The Arizona Fine Art EXPO, a production of Thunderbird Artists of Fountain Hills, Ariz., the leading provider of fine art festivals and wine tasting events in the Southwest, is a unique 10-week event that will showcase a variety of juried artists applying their artistic talents in a working studio environment. The event combines the aspects of a juried fine art festival, the elements of a gallery and the inner-workings of an artist’s studio. The result is a unique celebration of art that functions as an educational tool for the children and art enthusiasts. The EXPO will take place on the south lot of Rawhide on the northwest corner of Scottsdale and Williams roads in Scottsdale, Ariz.

8 Techniques to Shop Safely for Plus Size Clothing on EBay

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Sometimes when I talk to people about buying on eBay, they tell me horror stories of people being ripped off. I think these stories are sometimes just urban legends, but other times these stories can be their own real life experiences. Now, I have had over 3500 transactions on eBay and shop on eBay with little to no fear of being ripped off. These are the techniques I use to shop on eBay safely.

1. Check the seller’s feedback. If you look next the seller’s user ID you will see a number and colored star in parenthesis. The number is their feedback number. Whenever a transaction is completed on eBay, both parties are allowed to leave comments for each other about the transaction. If you click on the feedback number of the seller, you can read all of these comments. When I am consider buying something, I look at how many transactions the seller has had and if they have any negative comments. If there are negative comments I read them carefully and asses if I want to deal with the seller. Sometimes it is obvious that the seller is not someone I want to deal with and sometimes it is obvious that that the negative comment is a fluke. Either way, by looking at the seller’s feedback, I can usually tell very quickly how safe I feel dealing with them.

2. See if the seller has an “about me” page. This isn’t nearly as important is checking the feedback, but it can give you some insight as to the person behind the auction. If you see a little icon next to the seller’s eBay username that says, “me”, then this seller has an “about me” page. Click on the “me” icon and you may be able to read a little bit about the seller.

3. Pay with Paypal. Paypal has a significant buyer protection policy that covers eBay auctions. If your item is purchased with paypal and you do not receive it or it is received, but was grossly misrepresented in the auction listing, you have 45 days to file a claim with Paypal.

4. Shop knowing that if a seller has too many complaints against him/her and eBay determines that the complaints are legitimate, the seller will be kicked off eBay. Just knowing this makes me feel better. A seller won’t be around for long if they are scamming buyers. They can always try to sign up as someone else with a different eBay ID, but if you pick a seller with a higher feedback number, you can feel pretty comfortable that the seller is not a scammer.

5. Read the entire listing carefully. I personally hate doing this, but if you don’t, you may miss something important about the transaction. For instance, some sellers don’t accept Paypal. I personally don’t want to buy from someone that doesn’t accept Paypal. Also, sometimes the tone of the auction will turn me against buying from a particular seller. Especially if they sound really bitter or mean when listing their terms. If something does go wrong with the transaction, I hope to deal with a reasonable person, not someone who is already defensive about selling on eBay.

6. Check for measurements on clothing items. Especially if you are purchasing used clothing. This insures that the item hasn’t been shrunk over time. If the seller doesn’t have the measurements listed, email them using the “ask the seller” link and ask them for the measurements that you are interested in. A good seller will answer your questions in a timely manner.

7. Buy brands that you are familiar with. Different brands of clothing are sized completely differently. A 2X in one brand might not even be close to a 2X in a different brand. Unless you are very comfortable with the measurements given in the auction, stick to brand names that you are familiar with and that you already know how they fit your body.

8. Limit the amount of your purchase. If for some reason you do end up getting scammed, you don’t want it to be for $3500. I have never had a problem and I feel perfectly comfortable spending a couple hundred dollars with a single seller in a single purchase, but I would be uncomfortable spending several thousand with any one seller in a single purchase, but that is just me.

Eagle Eye Sunglasses

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Put on Eagle Eye sunglasses and you can now be safely outdoors in bright sunlight without exposing your eyes to the harmful rays of the sun. Eagle Eye sunglasses technology was first developed by NASA Scientists and Engineers. Looking to nature for a solution, they discovered eagles have a unique way of protecting their eyes by filtering out the harmful radiation from the sun. It was discovered eagles have droplets of oil in their eyes that filter out all harmful radiation. The oil greatly reduces the scattering effect of light and allows in only the light which increases vision clarity.

Using this knowledge to their benefit NASA scientists and engineers reproduced this oil and incorporated it into sunglasses lens. The Polarized Selective Transmission lens is the most effective lens on the market to stop violet, blue and ultraviolet light from damaging your eyesight. The lens not only stops harmful radiation but also blocks high intensity rays of light from damaging the centralized areas of the retinas. Harmless green, yellow, orange and red light rays are allowed to pass freely through the lens thus increasing image clarity.

The sunglasses known as Eagle Eye Sunglasses have become very effective and popular as a result. Many prominent people wear Eagle Eye sunglasses such as astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell; other prominent Americans George and Barbara Bush, Ronald Regan and millions of other people all around the world.

3 Ways To Find The Best Deals On Plus Size Clothing On EBay

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

All auctions are not equal on eBay. When you are bidding you can use this to your advantage to score some great deals on eBay. Here are my search tips to finding the best deals when I’m shopping on eBay.

1. Misspellings and Typos – These are called hidden auctions, because they won’t show up when a bidder searches for the correctly spelled term. For instance, when looking for a specific brand of clothing like Avenue I look for a seller who may have misspelled Avenue in the title to their auction. This means that the auction won’t get as much traffic and less bidding competition for me. If you go to fatfingers.com and put in the name brand that you are looking for, it will run an eBay search of every common misspelling pointing out all the hidden auctions to you.

2. Look in the descriptions as well. I once found a great boutique name brand dress by searching for the name brand and clicking the box under eBay’s search box that says “search title and description”. Because the seller didn’t include the name brand in the title, I didn’t have any bidding competition and I got the dress for $2. I just skimmed the auction titles to find one that didn’t have the name brand listed.

3. Use eBay’s search tools to narrow the field. When searching on eBay I use the tools on the left hand of the screen to narrow the field. Take advantage of these. Sometimes it can be overwhelming looking at thousands of auctions so I will put in my budget amount and look at auctions only ending in the next 24 hours to make my search more manageable. Only auctions that are currently less than my maximum amount and ending in 24 hours will show up.

There are tons of deals to be had on eBay and using these searching tips should help you weed them out and make them more available to you. Happy Searching!!

The Different Styles of Pink Hats

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Pink. It is a color that stands at the forefront of femininity. In most of its shades, it adds a degree of elegance unmatched in or by any other color. Looking at the color pink inevitability stirs something deep within a woman’s heart. This is especially true when looking at the elegant pink hats of former fashion.

It was not just the pink hat that lent itself to the elegant look of former ladies fashion but the dress that complemented those pink hats. Pink hats were elegant, and emphasized the female delicate spirit like nothing else. No matter what shape or size the woman was, there was something put together and elegant about her when she wore a pink hat. If you have ever tried one on yourself, you know as well how lovely, elegant, stunning and refined you feel while wearing a pink hat.

Hats come in all different shapes and sizes and often times, the only difference is the color. There are pink hats full of decoration, like the hats of yesteryears. Prime examples of these yesteryear style hats are the ones you might have seen in the movie, My Fair Lady. Pink hats in those tall, eye catching styles would be sure to make a lasting impression.

Or you might find a pink hat that is a little less eye catching but no less stunning, more to your liking. A pink hat should be decorated with something that expresses the personality of the wearer. For example, some might find a pink hat decorated with a streamer of ribbon down the back to their liking. Or perhaps a pink hat that is styled more like a bonnet, with a set of ties for under the chin. If the styles of former years, don’t appeal to you, there are other options.

Pink hats can be a baseball cap that supports a women’s cause. Pink hats can be the visors typically wore by vacationers and golfers. For those women who live out west, they even make cowboy hats in pink.

Now you can have protection from the sun in a color that declares you’re feminine. No matter what you do. No matter whom you are. If you are a woman, there should be at least one pink hat in your closet. Even if that pink hat is there for no other reason than because seeing it makes you feel feminine.

Pink hats, they come in all different styles and sizes. Pink hats, may have decorations, or may be unadorned. One thing, however, is certain no matter what your style, or what your preference, there is a pink hat that will suit you to a tee. If you don’t already have a pink hat, consider getting one. Or if you are unsure, try on a few pink hats and see if you can find the style of pink hat that sets you above the rest.

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