Top Mix Havaianas are an increasingly popular style of Havaianas and in 2011 there will be a new range coming out. I’ve also made my own style of Top Mix by getting 2 pairs of differently coloured Top Havaianas and swapping them over. One of the styles that looks great is swapping over the black [...]
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It’s time to start thinking about the Havaianas 2011. I can’t wait to see their new styles and add a few more pairs to my collection. I’ve been wearing Havaianas since 2006 when I got my first pair and they are now the only ones I wear. As most people know Havaianas are not just [...]
The trend for comfort in fashion rather than an indicator of individual or group identity was helped when trainers became fashion items in their own right away from the athletic track and sports field. Puma, and in particular Adidas, were the well-known manufacturers to start this trend, soon followed by Reebok and Nike. Men began [...]
Wearing fashion and accessories from a specific decade is popular because you can suit your personality to an appropriate decade. The Edwardian women (1901-1910) would not dream of running (very unladylike) so mid-calf patent leather boots were the fashion and worn with a low to medium heel. These were both fashionable and supposedly comfortable.
In the [...]
As consumers it is not too restricting to shop for fashionable styles of clothes because nowadays ‘anything goes’. If we want we can wear designer-label garments with period pieces, or an ethnic outfit with a high street bargain. The accessibility of fashion on the Internet and mass production gives us all the opportunity to enjoy [...]
Throughout history, the fashionable manner of dress has been distinct from occupational dress because of its ephemeral, short-lived nature. In Henry VIII time there were even laws stating what sort of clothes you were allowed to wear, similar to present day dress codes, and it was wrong to rise above your level in society by [...]
If we think of shoes symbolically, we associate them with movements and journeys or travel. Distinction in wealth and status of wearers is not easy to make, except perhaps when the designer-logo is clearly showing.
At the time of the Classical period in Ancient Greece, the typical footwear was a sandal, a type of footwear with [...]
Beach sandals were once the domain of the platform but by 1954, platform soles had finally disappeared to make way for the the rubber flip flop on the beach.
In the late 1930’s to mid-1950’s, the platform sandal was worn on the beach with the idea that the platform would sink into the sand, keeping the [...]
The London Shoe Show of 1979 brought recognition to the humble shoe and succeeded in raising its profile to an art-form. There is no better example of this transformation than if we consider the simple flip flop which in the 1970’s was finally regarded as a high-end work of art.
Previously, we had relegated the flip [...]
Shoes for women today fall into 3 categories: heels, flats and boots, and each category houses an assortment of styles. Heels include stilettos, platforms and wedges; flats cover sandals, flip flops, loafers, ballet pumps, slippers and plimsolls; boots refer to knee-highs and ankle boots.
Heels have the desired effect of making you look taller, and because [...]