Summer dresses and summer clothing 2012

Summer dresses and summer clothing 2012

The warm summer season is wonderful for so many reasons. The lovely warm days and evenings, beautiful flowers in the gardens, hot days on the beach, and the beautiful summer clothing. This summer update your wardrobe with clothing from The White Company. With so many trousers, shorts, tops, blouses, cardigans, dresses and tunics to choose from you will be spoilt for choice.

Summer is always a great season for dresses and tunics. Include the White Company’s pretty dresses and tunics in your wardrobe this summer and never run out of something to wear. A little white dress is an essential item of summer clothing for your wardrobe. The White Company have various white dresses for you to choose from. The Pleat Neck White Linen Dress is simple and yet so wonderfully elegant. This sleeveless shift dress is cleverly designed with really flattering box pleats, which make it so easy to wear for every occasion. The Sequin Trim White Linen Tunic is one of our spring and summer favourites. This little white dress is perfect for a little summer shimmer with tiny clear sequins that sparkle as they catch the summer sun.

Looking for a dress that can be worn to a more formal occasion? The Lace Yoke Silk Dress is so very simple and yet so incredibly beautiful. The cotton-lace yoke, front and back, finished with a scalloped edge which lies over the elegant, pure silk crepe de chine body makes this dress perfect for almost any occasion. The maxi dress is very in trend this summer. Choose the Pleated V-neck Maxi Dress for Grecian, dramatic and really flattering shape. Made from our wonderful viscose jersey material that drapes so beautiful and feels so wonderful to wear, you will love how you look and feel in this dress.

Where do UK celebs go to party?

Where do UK celebs go to party?

Celebrities are always out and about in the UK. There are many well known celebrities that either live in the UK or visit the UK regularly for business or pleasure. It would come as no surprise then that celebrities are often spotted at some of the best restaurants, bars or clubs in the UK. We often see them in the tabloids looking rather dishevelled outside a local bar or club. If you are interested in spotting a celebrity you may want to know where the A-lists choose to party. It comes as no surprise that there are many celebrity clubs in London where you can rub shoulders with the rich and the famous.

Celebrities are a lot like birds, they flock together. This is not so much the case during the day, but at night if you see one in a popular nightclub you are likely to see another. So where do they go?  Locations such as West End and Mayfair are central and known to have attracted the wealthy. As many celebrities would like to stay out of the spotlight the best celebrity clubs in these areas are members only and are very discrete when it comes to its famous guests. On the other hand you do get certain clubs that are not so discreet and like to advertise their guest list. Clubs known to have had a famous guest visit include; The Ivy who has seen celebs such as the Beckham’s, Elton John and so on, JuJu Chelsea in London has had guests such as Cheryl Cole and Frank Lampard. 

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Designer Brands Plus-Size Models ‘A Joke’

Fashion designer Julien Macdonald is well known for designing dresses for women up to a size 20. However, where he was once considered a bit of a champion of the plus-size mode, the Welsh designer’s recent attack on the fuller figured model has shaken his support. As a judge on reality TV programme “Britain’s Next Top Model,” Macdonald is highly thought of in the British fashion industry but in branding models who are bigger than the ‘norm, ’ that is, bigger than a size six or at the outside, an eight ‘a joke’, his stock in the industry is plummeting.

As someone who has been awarded an OBE for services to fashion, some feel that there is a certain expectation for him to take a responsible role in nurturing young models and designers. This is surely the essence of his position on the programme.  Repeated in the first paragraph

Seen by many as a simple grab for ratings and a controversial means of boosting viewer figures, Macdonald’s contentious comments have coincided with a number of changes to the programme. Naturally, the comments are sure to generate some publicity but it will also grab the attention of those people who are campaigning to see greater variety and a better representation of real-world women on the catwalk.

The number of plus-size models on the catwalk has definitely increased and there have been several, high profile magazine campaigns that have centred on the curvier model. This has been seen as a response to the ongoing debate around the ethical example set by the industry’s use of size zero models, primarily the result of the British Fashion Council’s Model Health Enquiry that was released back in 2007 to examine the health of catwalk models at London Fashion Week.

In their most recent show, Paris fashion house Chanel employed the plus-sized supermodel Crystal Renn. At a size 16, the American model is a firm believer that the catwalk should be representative of the street and should therefore portray woman of all shapes and sizes. She also feels that it furthers the stigma surrounding the size that models are categorised according to weight.

In an interview with The Independent, she called for a grass roots change to the fashion industry. The terminology that is associated with this issue doesn’t help things either; even amongst those who are campaigning for the plus-sized model. Renn feels that such terms are damaging as they can be isolating and exclusive, rather than confidence boosting or reaffirming.

Where Macdonald, once a creative director at Givenchy, wants to discourage a move towards more buxom models, the presenter of America’s Next Top Model and former Victoria’s Secret model Tyra Banks strongly disagrees. Having once crowned a size 16 girl America’s next top model, she is keen to develop the idea that you don’t have to be a size zero to make it as a model… Something to which Banks and Renn can both bear testament.

Passion for fashion costs over £500 a year

British shoppers are the second biggest spenders on clothes in Europe, according to a new report.

The report by Verdict, the market analyst, says that each Briton spends an average of £556 on clothes a year, up from £518 in 2001.

While the Italians remain Europe’s biggest spenders on clothes, the UK is catching up. Italians splashed out an average £602 each last year – down from £622 five years earlier.

Britain, Italy, Germany, France, Spain and the Netherlands account for £4 of every £5 spent on clothing in the EU, the report says.

But spending across these six countries collectively rose by just 3.9 per cent in the five years to 2006.

The new EU member states are experiencing a spending boom. Estonia saw its average annual spend per person almost double from £106 in 2001 to £209 last year.

Clothing sales across the 10 new EU member states jumped by more than a fifth to £7.7 billion over the same period.

A Verdict spokesman said: “The EU’s population is finding more attractive alternatives to spend its hard-earned cash on than clothing, and competition between the various clothing retailers of Europe is intensifying.”

The report says the biggest clothing retailer in the EU is Inditex – whose labels include Zara – followed by H&M and Marks & Spencer.

What is vanity sizing?

Vanity sizing is not just an American phenomenon; British stores have caught onto the trend and many stores now display smaller numbers than before. This is because fashion, for women at least, comes fraught with many perils: vanity, fear of old age, and a desperate desire to be young and skinny.

So many fashion retailers have decided – consciously or subconsciously – to cash in on this fear that seizes so many women: they change their designs or their sizing to camouflage the fact that their customers are not as skinny as they would like to believe.

This can cause confusion among women who have become used to wearing a particular size, though most often, it may cause elation – which is probably the original intent. It is indeed a pleasant feeling to fit into a smaller size pants than before. Or to remain the same size for years. And this without any exercise or dieting. This means that many women tend to frequent stores that flatter, ie, stores that make them feel physically smaller than what they really are. But a growing number of women are railing against this. They want to order clothing online with no hassles. They want to know that their favourite clothing store’s sizing be consistent.

These are the women who enjoy shopping at  for the ease-of-use and comfort of knowing that their size will not vary from one day to the next.

Most other stores alter their measurements but their sizes ‘shrink’. This means that a woman who has picked up weight over the last 2 or 3 years might be oblivious to that fact only because her jeans’ sizes have remained the same, though the measurements have changed. So she remains a size 12 though in reality her hips are closer to a size 14 or even 16.

Companies such as Merimondo uses consistent sizing charts that do not fool women into thinking they are smaller than what they really are. This is a far more honest approach to marketing and appeals to the more mature women who sees the world – and especially herself – for what it really is.

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