2012年3月18日星期日

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My first, and really only parka was from the Sears Men's department, it was the only thing warm enough in my price range when I was starting out in my early 20's. I still have it, and have worn it as recently as 2 years ago. However, it doesn't fit well and is really heavy. I have a down jacket from MEC which I usually wear. It's halfway between jacket and parka, and it's warm enough, but doesn't really have good face protection.
I've always coveted a Canada Goose parka, but could never really justify the expense when I already had an ugly but serviceable parka. I'd heard rumours that sometimes, rarely, they had sales, but I'd never managed to catch one.
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I clicked the ad and went to the Canada Goose site. No, really, it is the Canada Goose site. The only thing is, it's been copied and lifted from the Canada Goose internet address and placed at a similar-sounding one. I didn't suspect I was on a counterfeiter's site.
The price was not outlandishly cheap, the coat was still $350, a bargain for a Canada Goose coat, but well within the realm of what a decent down coat would go for, especially on sale.I am happy to report that Cheap Arc'Teryx Outlet Sale have managed to take a few resident geese. I wrote to the customer service department for help in choosing a style for extreme cold conditions. They promptly replied and said all the sale coat styles were suitable, I could just select the one I liked best. I did so and paid with my credit card.
The coat arrived promptly via Canada Post. I took it out of the mailing bag… it was a little loose in the stuff sack.

Spring Weather Takes Over the Day in Eastchester

Maybe it was the luck of the Irish that brought beautiful weather to the area Saturday.
Children played soccer and basketball in shorts — sweatshirts and jackets lying on the ground forgotten — as afternoon temperatures hovered around the 60-degree mark.
Taylor Erdman, 8, and her 3-year-old sister Madison played catch with their father Tom, as mother Rene looked on at the playground behind Anne Hutchinson School in Eastchester.
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While Saturday was glorious, the National Weather Service predicts cloudy skies on Sunday, with a decrease in temperature and a chance of rain.
"I think we may still see a peek or two of winter before we are officially into spring," Kent said.

2012年3月15日星期四

The Liu Wen Express

Slipping into a pair of blue Marc Jacobs pants in the back of a rented van in Yongzhou, China, the model Liu Wen was feeling an unusual degree of jitters. Changing clothes on the go is standard practice for models shooting on location, and she liked the look: “It's tomboy style,” she said. “I feel it's my style.” And under most circumstances — long travel, bad weather, unexpected wardrobe glitches — China's first bona fide supermodel has a reputation in the industry for being gracious and professional. But as the van pulled up to her old middle school, she peered worriedly out the curtained windows at a waiting crowd: hundreds of frantic teenagers in white uniform jackets, spitting images of her recent former self. “It's getting crazy here,” she said. The students were chanting, “Liu Wen, Liu Wen” and were armed with cellphone cameras and notepads for autographs, eager for the return of their school's most famous alum. “I'm not that big a celebrity,” she said. “I'm just an ordinary person.”
At 24, Liu is not so far removed, in years, from her time at Yongzhou No.3 Middle School. She grew up in the southern province of Hunan, most famous as the birthplace of Mao Zedong and as a powerhouse of domestic pork production.Discount Woolrich Arctic ParkaBack then in Yongzhou,cheap canada goose population 5.7 million, there were “no fashion stores, not even fashion magazines,canada goose jacket discount” she said. “Our sense of the outside world came mainly from South Korean soap operas.” About the only widely recognized Western brands in town were Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonald's. Her modest five-story school has long open-air corridors leading to cramped classrooms lined with old-fashioned blackboards. On the walls hang portraits of Chairman Mao, Vladimir Lenin, William Shakespeare, Hu Jintao and other inspirational figures. In winter, to conserve electricity, students and teachers wear coats inside to keep warm.
It was, in other words, hardly fated that a girl from China's pig country would go on to become, as Liu has, the first Asian model to be the global face of Estée Lauder, the first Chinese model to walk the Victoria's Secret runway and one of the most booked Asian runway models in the world. She has learned to wear stilettos (“I never wore high heels in my hometown”) and taught herself English. She moved to Beijing and then to New York City. Perhaps the only thing that remains the same is that she is single. “I have never had a boyfriend,” she told me. “In my school days, everyone thought I'm too tall for a Chinese girl. And now, I travel so much. Maybe in 2012.” It was her first time home in more than a year, and she was reflective about how her perspective had changed. “Twenty-four is still young in New York, but in Hunan most of my friends are married.”
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In a little room upstairs, Liu had lunch with several of her old teachers, surrounded by laminated posters of beach scenes and palm trees — exotic places few of her peers have seen. With the heating off, everyone huddled around a circular table in sweaters and dark jackets, save for the principal, Mr. Liu, who wore a gray suit with a purple tie for the occasion. On the table was a plastic dish full of sunflower seeds.Cheap Pants Sale The teachers uncorked two bottles of red wine, a treat, and offered rounds of toasts, standing up and clinking glasses in the style of a Chinese banquet. Liu, who does not drink alcohol, raised her cup of green tea and offered a personal motto: “Be a good student and enjoy your life. You never know the future.”

World Mastercard Fashion Week: Soia and Kyo

While the temperature in the Fashion Week tents and outside were reaching balmy highs for the month of March, the Soia and Kyo womenswear and menswear runway presentation reminded us exactly how we would have been dressing with the usual frigid March weather and how we should have been dressing these past winter months, with a collection of jackets and accessories sure to keep any Canadian fashionably warm.
With an opening video of a snow covered forest and howling winds, Soia and Kyo focused on winter's wrath (even though this winter has proven to be a mild one) setting the crowd to look forward to next season's outerwear. Set to Lykke Li's upbeat I'm Good, I'm Gone, the models made their way out dressed in a series of jackets and sweaters set in grays,Online The North Face Outlet Shop dark olive green and fall browns,canada goose jackets ranging from dark to creamy; from muted yellows to deep reds.men canada goose parka for cheap The jackets were eclectic, including fall-appropriate blazers, thick puff jackets, and wool jackets with a crisp cut-line.
Male models were clad in pairs of dark and khaki chinos and rolled up jeans, paired up with Doc Marten combat boots while female models walked down in long sweater dresses, cinched at the waist with belts,Cheap Down Pants Sale short cream-coloured shorts for the more weather-defying woman and brown boots with a chunk wooden heel.
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2012年3月14日星期三

Sid Neigum dresses Tara Gill for his fall/winter 2012 show at Toronto Fashion Week

Sid Neigum showed his collection in the sunny studio space at the Toronto Fashion Week tents yesterday afternoon,You are really handsome wearing the authentic moncler jackets womens. with guests that included fellow designers Ashley Rowe and Amanda Lew Kee (sporting a neon yellow Cambridge satchel), hair stylist and fashionable gent Tony Pham and shopgirl Jaclyn Genovese. The room was well lit, but not so bright that it required sunglasses—we spotted at least five guests (including Robin Kay) wearing theirs indoors.Even functional Cheap ArcTeryx Alpha Clohings Sale can be sleeveless. Neigum's look is fairly typical of what you might expect to see on a dude (or woman) in Berlin or the Lower East Side: asymmetric zippers, long tunics and slim-fitting leather jackets.
His pieces are so unisex, he even had Canadian model Tara Gill (in town for the Holt's show) walk down the runway. There were ivory cardigans and charcoal zip-ups among Neigum's more avant-garde pieces, but our favourites included a black wool coat with leather patches and leather laces at the wrists, a black collegiate jacket and a Henley with a covered placket and suede shoulders.Every people wants to buy authentic north face jackets but with best quality. We were impressed with the collection,Shop popular stores to find wholesale canada goose outlet on sale. but couldn't get behind a pair of drop-crotch pants (when will designers realize they look ridiculous?). Though Neigum is based in Toronto,canada goose parka are available from selective retailers all across the world. our seatmate, makeup artist Robert Weir, bemoaned the fact that he doesn't actually sell in Toronto stores. Hear that, retailers? Toronto creatives are just as outré as an artist co-op in Berlin or New York.

Darker tone for day two at Toronto Fashion Week

Maybe it was the contrast of Canadian-climate coats and Toronto's early spring weather, or it could have been the bevy of black pieces that ran through collections, but the second day of World MasterCard Fashion Week felt a little somber.
Sister duo Chloe and Parris Gordon showed a mix of floaty feminine pieces for their Toronto-based Chloe commes Parris label, which juxtaposed with heavier studded leather tops and jackets.
Furthering their growing reputation for fine prints were tissue-thin blouses and maxi dresses and skirts in earthy swirls of sand, dark blues, grey and brown. Slim leather pants in a steely ink blue with a double line of studs down the centre of each leg evoked the dark punk feeling that accented the collection.
Martin Lim, whose designers Danielle Martin and Pao Lim earned a runway show as part of their Mercedes-Benz Start Up competition prize, was heavy on the colour-blocking,Perhaps designers are taking a cue from Cheap Leaf ArcTeryx Sale and increasingly mild winters. with four-sided shapes of mauve, salmon, light teal and fuchsia breaking up monochromatic separates. Several dresses and skirts ended with loose hems of vertical panels that bounced as models walked.
Montreal-based Soia & Kyo showed a unisex collection of wearable wool, leather and puffy coats that were easy on the embellishments, save for some jaunty leather elbow patches, handy pockets and a few belts.
The no-fuss coats came in autumnal colours that would fit easily into wardrobes, with such hues as khaki, dark brown, sand, black and charcoal, and a couple of red and mustard options for those who want to stand out.
Wearable and chic, Canadian prestige brand Lundstrom Collection gave a showing of the simple and sophisticated women's separates they're known for, much of which was in grey and black, which lend a stand-out factor to its nubbly mauve and ice blue jackets and skirts. The 37-look parade ended with three gowns in black and deep blue with wonderful bulbous skirts that had us wondering why the label doesn't show more eveningwear.
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2012年3月13日星期二

Canada's Fashion Brands Bring High Fashion to the Masses

Fashionistas and designers alike flock to Toronto annually in March to partake in celebrating the upcoming Fall and Winter 2012 collections. High fashion is on everyone's mind this month due to World MasterCard Fashion Week occurring March 12th through the 17th.
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Canada Goose
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When it comes to those cold winter months, Canada Goose has the Canadian advantage. Named after a nation that sees some seriously cold temperatures, Canada Goose manufactures authentic extreme weather gear while based in Canada and has been since 1957. Tried and tested, Canada Goose makes sure its product can withstand anything. The company has participated in field tests that included feedback from Canadian Arctic Rangers and the US National Science Foundation researchers in Antarctica.
Offering consumers truly fashionable while functional outerwear, it's no surprise Canada Goose has seen global success.
Lululemon Athletica
Even though exercise usually leads to less than fashionable looks, Lululemon is trying to help consumers combat that with their highly fashionable athletic line. Based in Vancouver, BC, Lululemon got its start in 1998 after Founder Dennis Wilson noticed a lack of women's durable yoga wear made from technical athletic fabrics. Lululemon's initial success is a direct result of yoga instructor feedback from testing the new clothing line while teaching classes.Shop popular stores to find wholesale canada goose outlet on sale. Implementing fashionable designs has taken the company from one store in Vancouver to an International successful athletic clothing brand.
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