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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

2011 Fashion of Arctic fox fur Features in the World

In the new season 2010-2011 there are: caps and hats, shawls and scarves, headbands and cowls, and caps and berets. What to choose? It depends on your style and preferences. There is a large number of varieties, which have different design, sewing and prices, so everyone chooses to wear whatever he likes. One of the fashion trends this year is represented by female downy fur hats and caps, which have a fairly large amount, made from real fur of mink, arctic fox, and fox.

For those who like hats, but do not want to stay behind fashion, there were designed new cap from fur. Autumn-winter 2010-2011 periods proved to be quite various in matter of hats selection. We can say that women are lucky because they are avid fashionable.

The collections emphasize the elegance and chic. The main colors are: black, red and gray-pearl. Are fashionable hats with a rounded crown and slightly curved margins; they are highlighted by a decoration or a brooch with rhinestones. Designers recommend wearing such hats with leather coats, umbrellas, walking sticks, chiffon scarves. As you already understood, now is fashionable the lady image.

The renowned designer Salvatore Ferragamo introduced, at his new collection in Milan, a variety of men hats styles of beige and gray tones. Most of them are designed in a business style that is often used to create models for youth. These hats are very versatile and can be used at absolutely any style.

No less world-renown designer, John Galliano, in Paris surprised the audience with its collection, which presents a very large hat, and it also has a bigger height. Frankly, it is quite difficult to imagine such a hat in the new season 2010-2011 in everyday life.

For those people who do not like the usual hats, their replacement will become the cowls. This season there are fashionable big cowls, made from fur.
New idea, presented by Jean Paul Gautier, is a fur hat-scarf. The color scheme, in which was presented this type of hat is gray and beige. This version is pretty fine, as fur hats for women are expected to be extremely popular this winter.

A great popularity obtained the berets from Paris collections of Jean Paul Gaultier. They combine a mixture of styles such as the Military and bohemian chic. They are worn asymmetrical; such headgear especially combines with a hairstyle arranged to one side. These berets have mainly outstanding bright patterns. The same mixture of styles have hats with ear flaps, they have quite bright colors. These hats are warm, and most importantly, are comfortable. Designers recommend wearing them with the usual classic coat; it does not disobey the strictness of your attire.

The Arctic fox is an extremely resistant animal of the polar regions of the northern hemisphere, able to live when temperature drops to -50C. Its fur is white or, sometimes, Grey-blue in winter to camouflage into the snow and, when the season changes, this fur is replaced by a Grey or brown shorter coat that allows it to hide among stones and soil of the tundra.

- Its dimensions are rather small: 46-68 cm (18-26.75 in) for the head and the body, plus 35 cm (13.75 in) of tail and its weight is about 3-8 Kg (6.5-17 lb)

- Its main physical adaptation to polar climate are little and round ears, a short muzzle and furry soles to minimize heat dispersion from her little body.

- The Arctic fox is less long living than a dog or a cat, with its lifespan of only 3-6 years, but the site of Blue Planet Biomes reports a maximum lifespan of 15 years, besides the value of 3 years of average life.

- Its tail fur is particularly thick and it can help the fox to better balance during running and, above all, it is a soft and warm cover against the cold.

-Habitat:

The Arctic fox is diffused in all the northern polar regions occupied by the tundra, where trees can't grow anymore; from North America to northern Siberia.

- Food:

The Arctic fox seasonal colours help it very much in hunting rodents, birds and their eggs and chicks, insects and even fish. Rodents (mainly lemmings and voles) are abundant, but they frequently hide underground and under the snow in winter, where they dig their dens. So, the Arctic fox, helped by its acute hearing and smell senses, must dig to catch them, just where it feels their movements.

During the long winter, this kind of food is too scarce and the Arctic fox is ready to become a scavenger. So, it must follow (at respectful distance!) polar bears, the top predators of polar regions, patiently waiting the right moment to profit of the leftover parts of bears' preys. In any case, the Arctic fox is omnivore and, frequently, it eats berries and seaweed, when meat is scarce. On the opposite, when food is particularly abundant, it buries it for later in the frozen soil of permafrost.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Some Features of 2011 Apron dress Fashion Worldwide

Most people who make Viking era costumes are aware that wool is an easy fiber to dye with natural vegetable dyes. They, therefore usually choose to wear wool dyed (either by vegetable or modern chemical means) in various vibrant shades that can be achieved with natural dyes: reds, blues, yellows, greens, oranges, even purples. I have done so myself.

But proof that our forebears could have done something in a particular way is by no means proof that they did things in that way. As I learn more archaeological textile evidence comes in from Scandinavia, and from northern Europe in general, I wonder whether clothing colors weren't more stereotyped than most costumers and refractors would like to believe.

Consider:

The two largest apron dress fragments known (i.e., the pleated fragment from Køstrup, and the folded one from Pskov) were both the same color--blue. (The fragment appears lighter today; apparently the chemical process by which woad dyes fabric partially reverses itself when the fabric is buried under the right conditions.
The next largest fragment, from Hedeby (though not so definitively identified as part of an apron dress), was dyed brown.
To the extent she could identify color in the Birka textiles, Inga Hägg found only two colors: brown and dark blue (as discussed in Hilde Thunem's article in progress about the evidence for Viking apron dresses).
Viking age finds made in the Baltic areas (Latvia, Lithuania) show a pattern; white undergarments (shirts, women's shifts) over which clothes are worn in...dark blue and brown. This is particularly true of Latvia, where testing has revealed that overdresses and tunics were dark blue and other garments were either made from unbleached linen or from undyed wools. Colors other than white, dark blue, or the browns and grays of undyed wools (red, yellow, green) appear only as accents, e.g.,, as stripes and other motifs found in woven belts.
Most of the apron dress loops that survive are of undyed linen (whether or not any other surviving portions of the garment were also of linen).

Not all of these textiles have been analyzed for the presence of dye, but some have, tending to confirm the trend.

There are certainly archaeological textiles that were dyed in other colors, such as the reds of the Evebo find. But it is striking that all of the finds that are likely to have come from apron dresses or similar overdresses seem to have been either blue or brown. This restriction may be due to the limitations of our samples and other information, but it might reflect genuine information about such garments. Were apron dresses blue or brown because they were *supposed* to be--just as Victorian men suits were typically black? Maybe Viking women didn't wear red? Maybe green was too difficult to get right, or yellow insufficiently high-status to use in such a garment?

Most of us already know the importance of aprons - to keep our body as well as our clothes clean all the time. This utilitarian outer garment can also be used for identification purposes. In other countries, aprons are not only kitchen companions but a part of their traditional costumer too. But aside from these mentioned practicality of aprons, don't you know that they can be a fashionable wear too? That's true! Maintaining that fashionable looks while cooking is no longer impossible these days. Trendy styles of kitchen aprons created by renowned fashion designers are now widely available in the market and even through online stores.
Aprons are said to be handy and cheap. However, if they are designers aprons, for sure this piece of outer clothing is expensive. And this is probably one of the reasons why customer would choose unfashionable yet cheap aprons. But don't you know that you can still look fashionable while wearing one of your low-cost cotton aprons? And that is through customization. All you need is to take some little effort so as to transform your boring cheap aprons into something that is fashionable to wear.
There are so many options in order to further improve the styles of your cheap aprons. You can embellish your apron with several dazzling accessories that you no longer use. Embroidering beads, pearls, quills, or sequins on your aprons can also make the garment look amazing. For a more colorful and creative cotton apron, you can design it using ink, bleach, or fabric paint them sprinkle some glitters for a little flavor.
You can also restyle your white cotton apron or other solid aprons by topping it with flower printed garments. Don't worry as to how you can do it because there are lots apron patterns available online, which you can download for free. Most of these apron patterns come with easy to understand instructions and illustrations, making it possible for everyone to create their own style of kitchen apron.
Another option in order to come up with a distinctive and fashionable outer garment protector is to look for a reliable online apron sale store that does not only cater cheap aprons but also low-cost screen printing and custom embroidery services.