| Bridgeport students turn shopping bags into fashion statements
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. --Sione Hardison, 16, a fashion major at Bullard-Havens Technical High School, can probably design clothing in her sleep. But using paper bags for the material that was a challenge that called on teamwork and a lot of creativity. The result -- a little outfit Hardison and teammates called "hood and lace" -- was one of 10 creations students fashioned last week out of Lord & Taylor shopping bags. Part of a competition sponsored by the upscale department store, the outfits will be shipped to the Stamford Lord & Taylor to go on display with other entries from about a half-dozen high schools in the region that have fashion programs. Some of the outfits students from Bullard-Havens designed consist of nothing but shopping bags that have been scored, pleated, braided, woven and cut to look like something any model would be proud to wear.
School Overseas Targets Sagging Pants
Sagging pants might be an issue in some parts of the U.S., but others across the world are jumping on the bandwagon as well.
The latest place to try to minister fashion standards on the youth is a school in Stockholm, Sweden, who recently mailed out letters to parents demanding that students pull up their pants.
At stermalmsskolan, a school in one of Stockholm's most exclusive neighborhoods declared that displaying rear cleavage as a result of low sagging pants is out of order.
"Lots of people think hanging pants don't look nice, and this is actually the children's place of work. It's not terribly hygienic either," Agneta Zetterstrm, headmistress at the school, to local paper stermalmsnytt.
Despite the schools' concerns, some parents don't feel the issue is important.
The Body Shop is not just tattoos
She offers a permanent price of $18 to high school students for special occasions such as proms, formals and graduation. Gel nail fills are always $20 with no extra charge for glitter tips or French manicure and says there is 'never, ever' a charge for repairing shortening or repairing a broken nail. Pedicures are $25 or $15 for French pedicures. "I can also permanently alleviate in grown toenails and nail fungus," said Torres. "I can't begin to tell you how many toenails I have saved for women over the past 20 years. I can save any toenail and I love doing it." Body jewelry prices at the new shop start at $5, big gauge and fashion jewelry prices start at $10 and Torres sells 'real, not knock off' Italian charms starting at $6. Joining Torres in business is local tattoo artist Ben Edwards.
Pakistan Now Under State of Emergency
Quite a welcome all right. Chilling to hear that news - and to think of what is happening in a place as truly beautiful and idyllic as Swat. What will the emergency change in people's day to day routine, if anything? And is the Chief Justice effectively kidnapped now - how on earth does that contribute to overcoming extremists? .
More Obama substance!
You'd hope that even Dems who don't agree with the DLC-ish sentiments behind #2 would insist on #1. But, yes, Obama could do #1 without #2. Has he done that? A few weeks ago, Obsidian Wings catalogued Obama's "wonky" efforts.** He's against loose nukes, avian flu and unregulated genetic testing! That's impressive, but follows a standard good-Senator's path of picking off a chewable, discrete problem and pushing a rifle-shot, programmatic solution (typically involving creation of a small new federal office to control nukes, prepare for avian flu, or establish gene-testing standards, etc.). It's not the same thing as confronting deeper, bigger, less easily addressed problems: How to structure the health care system, how to pay for entitlements, how to confront the terror threat, the rise of China, the problems of trade and immigration, the increase in income inequality at the top.
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