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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