In the ’70s you had your bellbottoms and in the ’80s your tight designer jeans. In the ’90s, you went from distressed grungy to dressy denim, and then came the skinny-jean revolution in the noughties.
Read the rest of the post here:
New denim trend? Take your pick
This week: Deep discounts on lightweight luxury knits from Autumn Cashmere, chic frames for a song at Alain Mikli and sexy skinnies at James Jeans’ showroom sale.
More:
This week’s sample sales and shopping deals: June 6 – 13, 2011
The Gap partners with the Cotton. Blue To Green campaign to recycle old jeans.
View original post here:
Donate Your Old Jeans To Keep Others Warm (Tonic)
Seventeen-year-old Billy Peaty saunters reluctantly into the kitchen and slumps down in a chair at the glass dining table next to his adoptive dad, Graham. In his baggy jeans, he studies his fingernails to avoid making eye contact.
Read the original here:
Wanted: single men to serve on the fostering front line (Times Online)
And so The Apprentice returns to our screens with Sir Alan Sugar looking more and more like some sort of Don Corleone from Hackney, sitting at the head of the family table with the fate of his charges in his hands.
More:
What bankers should wear on Wednesday: jeans (Times Online)
You have to wonder what the Afghans will make of Vicky Blakeman. She has penetrating blue eyes and blazing red highlights in her hair. She wears tight black jeans and Tiffany jewellery.
More:
Meet Afghanistan’s new prisons boss — Vicky Blakeman, from Blackpool (Times Online)