Posted by admin on Mar 4, 2009 in
Fashion Comfort, style, mixing, and matching styles become the key aspects for men’s fashion this spring-summer season. To beat the heat this summer, a dark tone vest with buttons in the front with a v-neck shirt in light colors will be one of the perfect ways. Thus, we will give you some key words.
· In spring- summer season, we recommend you to choose accessories that reflect your personality. Blending bracelets, necklaces, and sunglasses will give you the perfect cool look that is much needed in these scorching days. Moreover, the satchel style bags complement your clothing. Scarves and handkerchiefs make a comeback this spring for the final addition in your look.
· This season you can find short shirts being matched with the business suits on many designer collections. Pants with straight cuts are in trend. You should mix and match the wild coloured pants with printed cotton t-shirts to get the rebel look. But, when you choose choose the graphics printed on your t-shirts, you should not wear a t-shirt with gigantic flowers imprinted on them, because they are out-dated. The present styles is wearing T-shirt with smaller prints in grey, purple, or blue color. For example, the Hawaiian printed shirts should be worn only with beach Bermudas.
· In this season, the main focus is grey and peal whites, pastel pinks and oranges are also bak in vongue.
· Do not forget to choose the right type of fabric for this season. Linen, tropical wool, cotton gives you a fresher and cooler feeling in spring-summer season. Not to forget the versatile Jeans, this will never go out of fashion
All you need to do is follow the type of cut within the season and the trends.
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Posted by admin on Mar 1, 2009 in
barbie When I was eight years old in 1978, Barbie was forbidden. Barbie was the big influence my feminist mother was worried about. Barbie was too sexy. Barbie was unrealistic. I was not allowed to have a Barbie.
So I went over to my cousin’s house to play with her Barbie. She had several, along with a Barbie townhouse, a Barbie camper van, and a Barbie Super Vette. My cousin named her favorite Barbie Crissy after the Suzanne Somers character in Three’s Company. To me and my cousin, Barbie and Crissy represented glamorous adulthood. Crissy the Barbie had this gauzy three-piece yellow and white outfit. There was a puffy overshirt with a camisole and a sheer, sweeping skirt. Very sexy.
The sexy was what my mother was worried about. She was worried that if I played with Barbie I would want to have big breasts, feet that were frozen into position for wearing high heels, and lots of sexy yellow clothes. She didn’t want me to want the glamorous adulthood that Barbie portrayed. She was so worried about this that she banned Barbie in our house. She dug up something called The Sunshine Family for me to play with. They were Barbie-sized dolls – a mother, father, little girl and baby boy – but the mother had flat feet. Instead of a Super Vette there were directions for making your own baby crib out of those green plastic baskets strawberries come in. My mother spent a lot of time supervising Sunshine Family craft projects. I think she felt that if I spent enough time on them I would forget that I wanted a Barbie. If I forgot that I wanted a Barbie, I would forget to want big breasts and high heels and sexy clothes when I grew up.
Almost 30 years later, I have a daughter and Barbie is still Barbie. Barbie still has big breasts and arched feet and sexy clothes. I want all the same things for my daughter that my mother thought she could give me by banning Barbie. I want my daughter to have a good body image. I want her to feel powerful because she is smart and accomplished, not because she is sexy and she drives a cute car. I worry that she will hide her real personality to get people to like her. I worry that she will think people will like her for the way she dresses. I worry that she will want to be sexy when she is too young to understand what sexy is.
When I do all of this worrying — and I do a lot of it — Barbie is the least of my worries. I don’t think that the meaning of Barbie has changed in the last 30 years. But up around her have grown so many other influences on girls that the power of Barbie has been diluted. Barbie represented a host of sins to my mother’s generation of feminist mothers. They didn’t want us to play with a toy that had sexy clothes. But when I go shopping for my toddler daughter, I am not thinking about the clothes her dolls might wear. I’m concerned about the clothes that are in her size but seem to be meant for a sexy Barbie doll.
Check out the size-2T shirts with sparkles and butterflies and the word “Juicy!” written right over the place where her breasts will grow — 10 years from now. She could wear them with the matching hip-huggers — over her diapers. She could try out the leopard-print tights or the jeans with “Sweet” written over the butt in rhinestones. It’s hard to find little girl clothes that aren’t saucy or sexy or overpriced. A big topic on the playground circuit is where to find affordable little girl clothes that look like they are meant for little girls, not little Barbies.
There are so many ways that kids are sexualized these days that my mother’s Barbie ban seems sweet and quaint. I didn’t see it that way at the time. I thought she was being cruel and unfair. I was jealous of my cousin and her trunk full of Barbie clothes. Now my cousin’s oldest daughter is five, the new target age for Barbie. My cousin said that she got out all of her old Barbies recently. Her daughter played with them a little but she just wasn’t that interested. She is very interested in sparkly shoes – especially flip-flops – and Disney princesses.
When it comes right down to it I don’t think my mother’s Barbie ban was as effective as she’d hoped. I went right ahead and played with Barbies every chance I got, just not at home. I got a lot of other messages about women and sexuality and dress from my mother, especially when I watched her dress and put on her make-up. What I didn’t have in the 70s – and that my daughter has now – are all of the commercials and video games and pop-up ads pointed right at her and the sexuality she doesn’t even know she has yet. I couldn’t ban all of those things even if I wanted to. I have to hope that she will watch me getting dressed, just like I watched my mother, and I hope she learns from that, too.
The power of Barbie has been diluted, for mothers and for daughters. If Barbie symbolized every antifeminist attitude my mother held dear, for me she’s just one of many toys that might teach my daughter a message I find distasteful. If Barbies represented the apex of grown-up cool to me and my cousin when we were kids, Barbie is just another doll to our daughters. They can wear their own sexy clothes if we let them. They don’t need to pretend with Barbies.
by Sara Sarasohn
Tags: barbie, barbie games
Posted by admin on Mar 1, 2009 in
barbie I was browsing through some news websites last week and I came across the link ‘Barbie Turns 50’ on the ABC News homepage. Despite the fact that it was pitiful news for a large news network to be featuring, I was drawn to the link…who cared??
I have never owned a Barbie doll, and neither has any one of my friends…at least, close friends. Of course that shouldn’t surprise many, given my conservative background; but I have come across numerous other anti-Barbie fans who are not Muslim or conservative – the most recent being the super model Lauren Hutton in the ABC video. The basic reason: their exaggerated form (and provocative dress at times) establishes an unrealistic standard for girls. Not to say that Barbie must be blamed for makeovers, anorexia, and the like, but why give young girls a toy with shady subliminal messages?
As I said, my family steered clear of that: no Barbie dolls. Not for me, and not for any of my four younger sisters. Instead, we played with Play Mobile. Modestly dressed with forms more conducive to innocent play, my sisters and I built a mini-world around them: from kitchen utensils to bathroom sinks to dresser accessories.
In 2003, the Arab world came up with a Barbie alternative. The name was Fulla.fulladollwaving1 Fulla looks just like Barbie – even down to her figure. But, although her body is similarly shaped, the Fulla Doll is not about her figure. Fulla comes fully covered. Her wardrobe includes a variety of modern wear, but in the “public” she is always wrapped up in her scarf and long coat. In this way, she represents modesty and maintains a sense of Islamic identity, without losing much of her girly and dress-me-up appeal. I can’t say that I would have owned a Fulla doll had she existed when I was younger, but she has done an impressive job of providing a more wholesome ‘role model’ for little girls. So, for all those young fashionistas out there who think it’s all about skin, go get a Fulla doll. There’s nothing to lose.
Tags: barbie, barbie doll, barbie dress up
Posted by admin on Mar 1, 2009 in
Other The Commonwealth of Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world’s smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania and a number of other islands in the Southern, Indian and Pacific Oceans. The neighbouring countries are Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the French dependency of New Caledonia to the north east and New Zealand to the south east. Australia is a vast nation, as big as the United States, but with just 20 million people. Parts of the continent are very sparsely populated, think of the Outback, its climate inhospitable to all but the hardiest creatures but its cities are modern and buzzing and as Australia is a coastal country with most people living 20 kilometres or so from the water, by the seaside. Australia consists of six states, two major mainland territories, and other minor territories.
The states are New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia. The two major mainland territories are the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory Ties between the UK and Ireland and Australia are strong and go back hundreds of years to penal colony days. Its a magnet for families catching up with far flung cousins, for young families exploring the national parks and Crown lands as well as enjoying the beaches. The popularity of soap operas such as Neighbours and Home and Away has whetted appetites for sunshine, barbecues, and the easygoing gregariousness of Australians. We have our winter while they are in summer so a holiday in Australia could be the cure to the start of the year blues. Public transport is poor, so if you can afford it hire a car to make sure you can see the unspoilt environment in all its glory. In some major cities, you can find rent a wreck style hire companies that allow you to hire a second hand car very cheaply, though mileage limits might mean you may not be able to get as far away from the city as you need. The Commonwealth of Australia is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of government. Queen Elizabeth II is the Queen of Australia, a role that is distinct from her position as monarch of the other Commonwealth Realms. If the thought of a banger on the barbie sounds delicious, remember that beef, rather than pork sausages in Australia are the norm. It’s unusual to find pork sausages. Be very careful when disposing of cigarette butts in the country, most of which is national park or Crown land. The vegetation is so dry that the smallest spark can start an inferno and land you in jail.
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Posted by admin on Feb 20, 2009 in
Cooking I appear to had forgotten just how unreasonable a vindaloo is a few hours after you’ve eaten it. It’s like an incredibly attractive female, who, after you’ve “enjoyed” her, tells you she’s got herpes. It sits there, staring at me, begging to be eaten, and so owing to my great incapability for saying no, I eat it. Savouring every last beautifully cheap and greasy mouthful (the curry, not the attractive female), I’m too deep into the heavenly taste, that I don’t think about the consequences of these actions. I go to bed satisfied. A few hours later, and I wake up feeling like someone is about to blowtorch my arse. I’ve wondered recently, what heaven is. What it’s like. Who it pleases. Who decides what universal perfection and happiness is. I mean, I understand that Heaven is the perfected perfection. It’s also very Conservative, in that it doesn’t like change or social progression. God spits at the Gays! Like an angry redneck scared that the sanctity of his second marriage to his second cousin may be undermined if we let the “fags” marry. It’s also very undemocratic, what with one guy ruling the entire place, very heavy handedly I might add, Bush will be invading heaven before January, I assure you. If, as Christians tend to suggest, no homosexual person, or no person who questions Christianity, or no person who hasn’t accepted Jesus as “their lord and saviour” exists in heaven, then I do not want to go to Heaven. If the Christian heaven, void of anyone who happens to have a different view of life exists, then it’s indeed a very good advert for going to Hell. Hell seems much more diverse and accepting. A Christian at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park, once told me that unless you accept Jesus into your life, you are destined for hell. I asked him, “what would happen to an Aid Worker in the Sudan, who dedicates his life to helping others, all his money goes into helping orphaned children live a better life, but is Atheist, and Gay?” The Christian, told me that man would go to hell for being a non believer. Yet this Christian stood in front of me, aimlessly condemning good people to hell, will be going straight to heaven? This same Christian, who will act morally, purely to appease his God and maybe get on the path to Heaven, whereas that Gay Atheist aid worker, acts morally, because he wants to do good, he has no one to impress, no God to appease, he does the right thing, for the sake of humanity, is going to hell? I think that’s a brilliant advert for hell right there. Surely Heaven is different for everyone? My idea of the perfect eternal World will be entirely different to that, for example, of a White Supremacist. Their idea of heaven, may very well be void of all black or Asian people. Whereas, my idea of heaven would include every ethnic grouping, every coloured skin, every sexual orientation, every Nationality, every class, and every walk of life on the planet, living in a place without a whisp of fear or bigotry. The idea of the perfect World for a Priest, may not include sexual salacious bliss, or may only include sexual salacious bliss for couples who had married in the material World. This, is my idea of hell. Everyone is different. A Vegetarian may find that his or her idea of Heaven, is never having to find another restaurant that actually caters to Vegetarians in a respectful maner. A table full of beautiful Vegetarian dishes. Whereas, my only edible wish for Heaven, all I ask of God, if he truly is merciful, would be a Vindaloo that doesn’t set my arse on fire.
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http://www.game-article.com/article/-Making-a-hell-out-of-heaven-s_192.html
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Posted by admin on Jan 23, 2009 in
Cooking On the Internet there are many free cooking games for kids, but are they as fun as the real thing? It doesn’t matter if you have children that are fussy eaters or if your children will eat just about anything that is in front of them, cooking is something most children like. That is why there are so many free cooking games for kids online. For more help visit to: www.chef-123.com. You can put your child in front of the computer and let them play a free cooking game for kids, or you can take some time and truly start cooking for and with your kids. It is the perfect way to combine your love for food and your love for your children.
In the free cooking games for kids, there are games where they are shown how to cook breakfast, they need to stir the eggs and so on. Cooking with kids in real life can be done whether it is for the morning meal, the evening meal, or for those many snacks in between. You can use the free cooking games for kids as an excellent way to get the kids involved in real cooking as well so this can be used as a valuable teaching time for you and your little ones.
When children get themselves involved in the free cooking games for kids, they are more likely to help you cook and they will eat what was made more quickly. This can be very beneficial for those who have children who are difficult eaters. Starting with free games to take on cooking for kids is also an excellent way to get in ingredients that you would normally wont get them to eat, you can dress up the ingredient as something fun and exciting. Many parents find cooking for kids an excellent way to get nutrients into their children, and the free cooking games for kids can help them with that.
Where do you find these free cooking games for kids?
First you find a recipe that you would like to make for your kids and then you go find the cooking game on the internet, 99% they are free, pick one out yourself, that is related to what you are going to cook in real life, there are so many that it should be easy to do.
There are probably millions of recipes to choose from because parents and daycare workers have posted their recipes and ideas on the Internet so you can start cooking for kids.
The free cooking games for kids, For more help visit to: www.delicious-candy-recipes.com. are often in some kind of Asian language (Japanese), but that is really no problem, most of the games are so intuitive and simple to understand that your children wont even notice that they are in Japanese.
by gurujithree
Wambie
Tags: Cooking, cooking games, free cooking games
Posted by admin on Jan 11, 2009 in
dress up Every girl likes to plan for her wedding and what better way to pretend than by playing wedding dress up games? In wedding dress up games, you have the chance to pick your own wedding dress and veil and in some cases you can even pick your bouquet of flowers to hold.
Of course, these kinds of wedding dress up games are online, but there are some who go even farther and head to bridal boutiques to play the real-life version of bridal dress up games. Girls that like to play these games head to the bridal stores and try on dresses just to see how they look.
Often girls who play wedding dress up games are in a serious relationships and are planning ahead to when they get to actually dress up for their wedding. Others just wish they were in love and in the meantime are going to have a good time trying on dresses and flouncing about in front of the mirrors. Some even take pictures so they can remember the dress later. http://www.xuxu.tv
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Posted by admin on Jan 11, 2009 in
dress up My favorite scene in any Christmas movie is Randy, the little brother in a Christmas Story, getting ready to walk to school. The warm winter clothes went on him followed by an extra sweater. Then the one-peice snow suit was pulled over it all and firmly zipped. A thick wooly hat went on his head and a scarf was wound about his face. At the end of it, Randy couldn’t raise or lower his arms as they were stuck in the thick suit and he could only waddle in his snow boots.
I think snow makes the perfect backdrop for dress up games. Where else do you get a chance to pull on so many layers? Start with long-underwear over your regular underwear. Then add a warm layer of shirts and pants before pulling on another sweater or sweatshirt. You might then slide into your own snow pants or at the very least pull on some snow boots.
If you wear jeans to play in the snow, your pants will get wet which might take some of the fun out of the day, so consider wearing a snow suit or snowboarding pants as part of your dress up game. Add a bulky snow jacket on top of everything and you’re almost there. Now you just need boot if you haven’t put them on already, gloves, scarves, hats and – if you’re like me – hand warmers tucked away for extra warmth. Online or in real snow, dress up games have great appeal.
Tags: dress up games, snow
Posted by admin on Jan 11, 2009 in
dress up In 2009, I firmly believe that every girl should make dress up games one of her New Years Resolutions. I’m not picky enough to state whether the games are online or off, but there isn’t a single girl who wouldn’t benefit from a few rounds of dress up games once a week.
Dress Up Games Keep Things Light
When you dig in your closet or help dress up a model on the computer screen, you can’t be taking life too seriously. You should be enjoying yourself and this is a good way to do it, so dress up yourself or a doll and lighten up!
Dress Up Games Keep Fashion Fun
Fashion should be fun, but sometimes it seems more like a lot of work as you try to look good. Keep it simple and fun by practicing the kinds of outfits you like online or with the clothes already hanging in your closet.
Dress Up Games Teach New Tricks
When you play dress up games, you stand to learn something new every time. You might learn how to pair up certain items or you might learn about a new combination that is hot in fashion magazines ands stores. Always look for the lessons you and your wardrobe can benefit from.
Tags: dress up games, fashion 2009