Fashion Book Blog

If you are going to choose fashionable clothes to wear you mustn’t let a bad hair cut or style ruin the whole outfit and so what are the hair styles that are most in fashion in 2009?

Well as always there will be a variety to choose from depending on the length of your hair and whether you want to gain a look that is sleek, feminine or a style that is just easy to keep and look after yourself..

To start with, the women who have long hair and want to keep it long, have the ever popular straight and sleek look which is relatively easy to manage and especially if your hair is naturally straight. It is also a very popular trend for this year as it is more versatile than short hair and can be worn in various different ways like pinned up, in braids, in a low bun etc

There are also two other variations on wearing long hair which are for volume to be put into the style so that hair cascades down your shoulders rather than just plummet. And the other is for pronounced waves, starting from about the ear-line, with a side parting.

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This is an item that is so easy to find in the shops and most women will have at least one in their wardrobe already. It can be made out of cotton, linen silk or even viscose and is a very versatile piece of clothing.

But maybe sometimes one doesn’t know of the other ways that it can be worn other than the very normal one which is tucked into a skirt or a pair of trousers or jeans.

Well firstly, you could wear it without tucking it anywhere and put a wide belt loosely around the hips. This could be worn with trousers or a pencil skirt.

It can be worn loose again over trousers and with a waistcoat on top of it so that you see the shirt hanging out from underneath the waistcoat.

In the summer it looks good with a pair of jeans and instead of doing up the last few buttons at the bottom you get hold of both ends of the bottom of the shirt and bring them together in a knot, or if it is a really long shirt and there is enough material, into a bow.

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At the beginningsof February 2009, in Luanda city in Angola, Africa a magnificent fashion show event took place. The top local designers of the country showed their latest trends and also new beauty queens on the runways. For more than two hours the designers demonstrated on the catwalks, the best of their collections for the public to air their comments. This being one the West African countries, where the famous kitenge or chitenge garment designs are common, no one would have smelled European flavor on the way.

The local designers displayed items that exposed a combination of European and Africa fabrics because of the devastating effects of global economic crisis. As anyone familiar with these parts of Africa would imagine seeing on the runways, these local Angola fashion designers presented the typical African kitenge attires, silky robes with elegant patterns and variety of colors. Others displayed satin a garments, with variety of colors.
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Today in the spotlight, is a true story of one of those Asian countries forging right ahead when others have been very much affected by the merciless global economic crisis. In Bangladesh, the textile statistics for its exports to the United States shows a radical ten percent increase from last year to June 2009. Bangladesh is one among the many countries that depends on exports not vastly devastated by the recession problem.
Her apparel exports are actually booming while her sister countries such as Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia are equally hurt as some European countries and the US. Most specifically, Bangladesh supplies knitwear and woven outfits. These seem to have increased by almost forty two percent and thirty six percent for the last month of the year 2008, in contrast to the previous per annum figures, according to the current statistics. The fact that, many clients from the countries whose purchasing power have declined, due to effects of global economic crisis, are looking for low cost final textile products, gives Bangladesh an upper hand.

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