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Going Tahiti-style fashion for the holidays

FINAL CUT

Edsel-Thadeus O. Lorete

11/16/2007

The holiday shopping season is on! The intermittent hot and cool weather hitting the metro, however, dictates the need for practical but fashionably branded clothing to sport this Yuletide season. Final Cut, as a style arbiter, suggests going light and fancy while still retaining that festive colorful Christmas mood.

What one decides which brand or clothing to buy is, of course, a matter of taste. The practical solution to this nightmare is to pay closer attention to what fashion season closely resembles the current.

Summer seems definitely it! It is a colorful period, and it is as jolly as the Christmas season. Choosing this path, one would look for alternatives to what is typically on display at shopping mall windows.

Offering an entirely different shopping experience is Hee-Nalu, a small boutique selling surfing fashion apparel imported from Tahiti. Their items are a far-cry from those made in Hong Kong and Thailand. They are made of high-quality materials sporting creative designs that guarantee optimal quality even for the most sophisticated Asian wearers.

Hee-Nalu, a cool Tahitian term for “wave sliding” or “surfing,” exerts all efforts to capture the surfer’s lifestyle. The materials are tough enough to sustain the rugged sport of surfing. It has a standard of quality most Pinoy shoppers tend to look for in Holiday trips abroad. The store offers five excellent surfing apparels ranging from board shorts, T-shirts, sleeveless shirts to collared shirts and the original Tahitian thongs, which is the Tahitian island term for “flip-flops.”

The designs Hee-Nalu projects, all guaranteed original and machine printed to perfection, offer choices unmatched even by those widely sold in cheap bazaars. They come in fresh floral designs blended with an array of cool comic caricatures. Picky shoppers will have fun matching these lively designs that complement both urban day and night apparel.

The feet thongs or flip-flops, on the other hand, are exceptionally crafted with the finest rubber materials typical of leading sports shoes manufacturers. They are soft on the heels and fit the smallish Asian foot size.

Hee-Nalu, located at the back of the Nike shop at the Tri-Noma mall, is a convenient one-stop shop for both men and women with its timeless choices of practical leather Sperry shoes ideal for all occasions. It also sells its own line of imported swimming gadgets from goggles to flippers. Why go for traditional holiday fashion when you can go light and practical with the finest fashion surf wear?

Classic Dockers launched at Rockwell

The classic Dockers all-khaki get-up returns this holiday season. The selection, which compliments the re-opening of the Power Plant Dockers San Francisco Store, heralds Dockers’ impressive tribute to its fashion roots.

“We conceptualized the collection with insight of a local, not a tourist,” said Bobet Romualdo, Dockers San Francisco brand leader. The Rockwell Dockers outlet, now lucratively equipped with a floating glass signage, was launched with a powerful lineup of its cotton, fit and layered premium Dockers men’s shirt paired with signature soft khaki pants and leather backpacks. The store, in contrast to its old and traditionally Western look, now features a lifestyle lounge area furnished with leather seats, Moroccan leather pillows, a Scandinavian pierced drop light, scented pouches and a Sisal carpet.

A 24-hour diet drink that works!

Who says supplemental diet drinks do not work? I used to banner to diet freaks that the only way to lose weight is to catch a flu or reduce the body’s carbohydrate or fat intake gradually.

The Hollywood 24-Hour Miracle, the famous and frequently advertised miracle juice diet taken by Hollywood celebrities, could not have offered a better time for Final Cut to prove its miracle weight-losing claims. Enriched with vitamins A, B6, B12, C (which is a natural anti-oxidant), D and E, this oral anti-weight solution, which tastes like sweetened tamarind blended with sugar cane juice, actually works simply by overriding your hunger through the mixed vitamins you have ingested. The vitamins practically supplement the normal body’s food intake without disrupting the stomach’s digestive functions.

The product requires a specific eating regimen I would compare to a health meal normally suggested to compliment a light adult work out. The formula, which I suggest should be taken as prescribed with water and no sugar within a period of four hours in one day, substantially rids the human body’s system of elements that contribute to weight gain. It should not be confused for a laxative agent because this product does not induce bowel movement. What it does, based on experience, is help your system manage or deal with impurities stuck in your system by flushing it out the way undigested solid or liquid food is normally released. This is why upon taking this diet juice on a particular time frame, the dieter is advised to take eight glasses of water. This supplements the entire process of effectively losing weight. It is recommended that the product be used twice a week and with substantial eating plan and exercise, regularly.

The Hollywood 24-Hour Miracle Diet is fortified with healthy acai and garcinia cambogia, two natural herbal component proven useful in supplementing a healthy diet plan.

Beowulf and The Hitman hit metro theaters

Two great Hollywood films, Beowulf and The Hitman, one an epic the other based on a graphic novel, are currently screening in Metro theaters. The Hitman (Tymothy Olyphant) is the story of a genetically produced elite (bald) assassin code-named Agent 47, a lethal killing machine who takes pride in committing senseless murders. Things change when Agent 47 develops a conscience.

On the other hand, Tom Ripley’s Ray Winstone plays Beowulf, a mighty warrior who falls for a mysterious seductress played by sexy mom Angelina Jolie in the latest Hollywood film adaptation of the Anglo epic. The new computer-animated fantasy features Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins as the cursed King Hrothgar, John Malkovich as the naysayer Unferth, Robin Wright Penn as Queen Wealthow and Crispin Glover as the monster Grendel. Beowulf is available on I-Max 3-D. Must see only in theaters!