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"I can't dispute the fact that, no matter how expensive our shoes are, they can also be uncomfortable.

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South Africa's only female dedicated vehicle insurance company, 1st for Women, agrees that women's shoes can be hazardous on the road.

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Farrell says they conducted a mini survey to see how South African women feel about driving in boots and high heels and most think it's a breeze!

"One woman did admit to losing control of her car due to inappropriate footwear and some said they usually swop their fashionable footwear for flats when driving," says Farrell.

The UK study goes further and warns against heavily-padded jackets, which could hamper movement while driving.

Hand gloves have also been sighted as they could cause a driver to lose traction on the steering wheel.

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Summer is finally here and I can put my boat to use. What are some helpful tips if I want to enjoy a day of fishing.

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Chalk: Fencing class a lesson in humility

That's what I got when I took the eight-week adult beginners' fencing class through Three Rivers Fencing Club in Midland this winter.
Humble, as in being defeated by fencers much younger than myself.
And respect, as in seeing that age and gender are often irrelevant in fencing. Experience, wits, and courage are the most important factors in this sport, which is often called "physical chess."
My athletic background consists mainly of playing 10 years in the Midland Soccer Club while growing up, and running in several road races in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
I was inspired to take this class while reading a book called My Year with Eleanor by Noelle Hancock, a memoir in which the author does one thing that scares her every day for an entire year.
When I showed up for the first session on a Monday night in mid-January, I was the only true "adult" in the class, which was for anyone aged 13 and above. The other three students were boys in their early teens, while I am 41.
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Another, more difficult, lesson in fencing is this: Don't worry about being hit by your opponent's blade, as long as you have the right of way.
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Reese Witherspoon, Leighton Meester & More Celebs Combat the Indecisive March Weather!

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ACC, Atlanta face a tough task this week

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Everything passes through Atlanta, and many things pass through Atlanta without causing much commotion. The 2012 ACC tournament opens locally as an irrelevant sideshow, evidenced by agonizingly slow ticket sales and the painfully graphic decline of Georgia Tech's program.
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There were no public ticket sales from the 1960s until 2007, when schools that couldn't lure enough donors to the only Tampa tournament quietly peddled their leftovers at the hockey arena's box office.
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NZ Fashion Festival: Friday

Who's who at this year's festival of fashion? Some of New Zealand's top designers and well-loved labels will present their autumn/winter collections at the New Zealand Fashion Festival, with nightly runway shows showcasing the latest trends and what's available in store. What to expect on the runway? We find out the details of each designer, and a little about their approach to the season.
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Top winter style tip?
Warm up your winter with some neon.
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McQ debuts in London with magical techno fairytale

Alexander McQueen launched the autumn/winter range for its McQ label in London on Monday, flaunting military-inspired twists on British design classics as a fairytale cottage pumped out techno beats.

For its cheaper, more wearable sister line McQ, the British fashion house teamed thickly belted trench coats with black furry neck mufflers, and English tweed overcoats with tartan and big army boots.canada goose parka

US Vogue editor Anna Wintour and Hollywood actress Salma Hayek were in the front row to see the diffusion line's first ever catwalk show, one of the most hotly anticipated events of London Fashion Week, which closes Wednesday.

Chunky leather belts toughened up feminine, A-line dresses in tulle and brocade for the women.

Layers of lace and netting, heart-shaped necklines, elbow-length gloves and skirts covered with embroidered flowers created a fairytale look echoed by a dreamy closing sequence.

Autumn leaves drifted under the spotlight onto a lone model in white tulle, who bent down to pick up a rope lying amid the wood chippings covering the catwalk.

As she followed the cord, the back wall of the minimalist venue rose to reveal a floodlit woodland scene featuring real trees and an ancient-looking cottage -- which proceeded to pulsate with strobe lighting and a throbbing beat.

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A few gold chains glinted from their hips, but in a manner more suggestive of a dangling gentleman's pocket watch than of grunge rock.

Apart from a sequence of black dresses covered in multi-coloured flowers, the palette stayed muted, ranging from camouflage tones of brown and khaki to crimson and black brocade and forest greens.

There were also a few flashes of Black Watch regimental tartan, including a kilt teamed with a military jacket and a pleated sleeveless dress underlaid with lace.

The glitzy showmanship could not have contrasted more with McQueen's understated creative director Sarah Burton, who shuffled onto the catwalk in jeans at the end to give a sheepish wave.

Alexander McQueen himself committed suicide in 2010, but his designs remain hugely popular -- particularly since Burton designed the wedding dress of Prince William's bride Kate Middleton last year.

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Chabad at Mont-Tremblant moves to new home

Mont-Tremblant is known worldwide as a ski centre and après-ski hot spot, but this famous Laurentian Mountain resort is actually a popular holiday destination year-round.

The rolling mountains and picturesque lakes and rivers provide an ideal setting for summer activities such as cycling, hiking, golfing and canoeing.

About 90 minutes north of Montreal, the resort village, with its many hotels, spas, boutiques and dazzling mountain-top casino, caters to international tourists that include Jewish visitors from around the world.

It's not uncommon to see some of them attending Shabbat services and holiday celebrations at Chabad of Mont-Tremblant (819-681-0337), a Jewish centre, which used to be housed in a condo in the resort. The centre recently relocated to 110 Chemin Desmarais, which is a two-minute walk from a ski hill.

Rabbi Yisroel Mockin and his wife, Liba, who have been running Chabad of Mont-Tremblant since its inception six years ago, say they are thrilled with the centre's new home and very appreciative of the generosity of their supporters.

"People have opened their wallets," she says "It's been overwhelming.

"Like most Chabad centres, we are not funded by Chabad headquarters. We have to do our own fundraising."

According to Rabbi Mockin, it was a challenge to find a new home within walking distance of the resort. "We found a humble house on a humongous property. It's 1.3 acres."

The resort did not permit display signs for the centre, he says. "Now we can have a sign and be more visible."

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"When people go on holiday, they're more relaxed and more open to meeting people."

The centre has also become a place for networking, he says. "I've experienced people making business connections."

And younger people are also connecting he says. "We've had teenagers meet at Chabad, and they stay in touch through Facebook."

The centre also attracts Jews of diverse religious backgrounds – from people who attend shul weekly to those who are non-observant, he continues. "We've had people coming to shul on vacation who don't normally go to shul when they're not on vacation."

Chabad tries to help families staying in the condo units "create a home away from home," he says, pointing out that kosher food can be ordered through their website at www.chabadtremblant.com. It also has details of hotel discounts through Chabad.

The centre is the brainchild of Rabbi Mockin, a member of the Chabad community in midtown Montreal.

He was running a summer camp for some 400 boys just north of Tremblant when he came up with the idea of setting up a Chabad centre at the resort. He was encouraged to proceed by his father, Rabbi Berel Mockin, head emissary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Quebec.

The Mockins – they also have a 20-year-old son, Peretz, and an 18-year-old daughter, Chaya – divide their time between Montreal and Mont-Tremblant.

The couple had a busy winter holiday season because this year Chanukah overlapped with Christmas.

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All good things come to an end

As an audience in Milan was applauding the finale of their D&G line show last September, designer duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were putting the final touches to a press release that would announce its closure after 17 years.

"We have a lot of new projects to start in the same way as many years ago, when D&G was born," they said in the statement released immediately after the event, much to the surprise of an industry that had come to love the pair's more blinged-up, youthful line.Men's ralph lauren hoody is the the necessary coat for any handsome man in both spring ang autumn . "D&G will become part of Dolce & Gabbana [their mainline range], giving even more strength and energy to our collections."

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Dolce & Gabbana's D&G range encapsulated all the wit and hyperbole of the pair's main label, but at a fraction of the price, and bore all the brash bravura and glamorous gusto that the stereotypically loud and proud Italian fashion industry is known for. From logo-tastic denim for the conspicuous consumer to short and skimpy cocktail dresses and sex-kitten winter knits, D&G was clever and cartoonish, eye-catching and immediate.

"D&G was something of a fashion journalist's dream," says Alex Fury, fashion director of SHOWstudio.com. "A single theme,Shop popular stores to find moncler outerwear on sale. served straight-up with no muss or fuss. Colour, glitz, lots of bling, plenty of logos, too much shredded denim. That kind of energy and exuberance really feels as if that's what the best of Italian fashion is all about."

Stefano Gabbana says of his main label: "For us, Dolce & Gabbana is the dream. Our roots. Dolce & Gabbana is the Mediterranean, Sicily..."

"While D&G represents what we live now," finishes Domenico Dolce. "Very much influenced by music and by the street. The collections did share some elements, although they were two separate worlds which started to become closer."

What the lines have in common is a similarly irreverent treatment of icons and the popular myths around femininity: while the mainline has reflected everyone from glamorous widows to wide-eyed ingénues, the D&G line once took Queen Elizabeth II as its inspiration, with models in silk headscarves and long tartan skirts. It was quite a departure from the usual clubbers' vibe but somehow entirely fitting according to the designers' flamboyant minds.

"D&G changed a lot throughout the seasons," continues Gabbana. "When we launched it in 1994, fashion, the economy, everything was quite different from today. People wanted fun things,Do you need any sell canada goose winter jackets supply and demand information? a kind of fashion that would be a crossover of styles and inspirations, with no age restrictions. D&G allowed us to free our creativity in a completely different way compared to Dolce & Gabbana."

Design signatures such as ocelot prints, graffiti tags, gold chains and hyper embellishment were not so much a by-word for extreme glamour as a billboard advertisement for it, and the final collection stands a joyous synecdoche for a label at which too much was just enough. For its swansong, models dressed in garments made from the twisting, pinning, knotting and ruching of classic foulard scarves, printed with everything from psychedelic paisley to porcelain and nautical emblems, strutted along the catwalk to a remixed soundtrack of Prince's "Kiss" and James Brown's "Sex Machine". High camp indeed.

"Corsetry dresses, lace, ocelot and, of course, scarf prints are incredibly iconic to the brand," says die-hard D&G fan Lauren Stevenson, who is head of communications at My-wardrobe.com – where an exclusive capsule of D&G pieces has just launched, in celebration of its final collection. "Every season, they feature these elements within the collection, which give you a chance to buy into classic D&G pieces with a twist of the trends of the season... The panic is starting to set in."

The designers plan to assume the D&G spirit into their mainline label, meaning that prices are higher and pieces perhaps less overstated, but they are keen to promote the closure of their second line as a beginning rather than an end.

"What we have been trying to do is to introduce the young generation to the sartorial soul of Dolce & Gabbana," explains Stefano Gabbana. "Next to the classic signature jackets and trousers you now find new shapes which are close to the D&G spirit, yet speaking the Dolce & Gabbana language."

"The D&G logo will not disappear," Domenico Dolce assures the insignia's fans. "We did show on the Dolce & Gabbana men's runway belts and T-shirts bearing the D&G logo.canada goose jackets This is just the first season – in the future this merging will be more clear."

And the message too is clear: D&G has grown up. And a generation of shoppers will proudly watch as it takes its first steps as a new concept at the Milan womenswear shows next month.