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Handbag
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* Watch
* Apparel
* Sun glasses
Handbag
You can tell a lot about a person, not only from the clothes they wear, but also from the accessories they have, including the handbags they carry. It is hard to believe, but you can find out a number of things about a women's personality just by the type of handbag she has. Below you will find a number of handbags styles and colors as well as what each specific type of handbag says about its owner.
Styles
Under the Shoulder. Handbags that have handles but are smaller and fit tightly underneath the shoulder indicate class and sophistication. A women working in an upscale office or someone of high stature might choose this form of handbag.
Big and Bulky bags are casual and are often associated with younger girls. They are generally used for individuals who carry a number of things (folders, books etc) and require a lot of space. Down-to-earth, lower-maintenance women might carry this type of handbag.
Designer handbags often cost an arm and a leg and therefore are usually associated with high-maintenance females. Females who are confident and like top of the line accessories will settle for nothing less than a name-brand designer handbag, with matching purse. People - watch out for these girls, they can be a handful!
Leather with Buckles and Pockets - Women who choose leather bags with lots of buckles, tassels and Pockets are leashing out their wild sides. These women tend to act before they think and are always ready for a good time. The extra buckles and pockets tend to signify a bad girl image.
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Colors
Bright Colored handbags like hot pink, purple, bright blue and green indicate that the woman is fun, friendly and approachable. Women who are out-going and sociable will tend to choose these colors. This is the type of woman who will strike up a conversation with a complete stranger.
Black and Brown - Women who choose black or brown handbags tend to be more reserved and are often mistaken as being snobby or restricted. These types of handbags are often associated with down-to-earth women, who are shy at first, but open up after a while. They tend to exude a shy confidence, which is sometimes mistaken as someone who thinks she is better than others are.
The style and color of your handbag says a lot about you. Choose your handbag very carefully and remember you can choose more than one style. You may feel like being reserved one day and the centre of attention another. It is natural to want different things in life!
And it is very important to take proper care of your new handbag in order to have many years of beauty (and use!) from the handbag.
Immediately treat your handbag with a leather protector in order to prevent stains. The leather in your new bag is not treating so that it may age gracefully. This aging process is one characteristic that makes your handbag distinctly yours!
Be careful to keep your bag away from makeup, food, and especially anything that is oil based.
Follow these few simple steps to ensure the beauty and durability of your brand new handbag!
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All women love their handbags. It is the most visible fashion accessory. A fashionable designer handbag makes a statement for the woman carrying it but being in style and staying in style costs a fortune. Most women simply cannot afford to buy all of the handbags one would need to keep current with the ever-changing styles.
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Shoes
How to Choose a Pair of Shoes
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Whole and half sizes and a choice of fittings
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A shape that follows the contours of the foot
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Built-in space around the toes
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Quality leather uppers
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Leather dyed right through to maintain good looks
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Light, flexible soles
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Close cut soles to prevent tripping
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Cushioned ankle support
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Fully adjustable fastenings
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Shoe Tips
Using the following shoe tips as reminder to make sure footwear gives you the wear you expect.
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From time to time let your shoe have a "breather".
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Always loosen laces or closure before removing shoes. In addition, use your hands to take shoes off - never tread on the heels! Use a shoehorn when putting shoes on - this stops you ruining the heel counter.
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Never place a pair of wet shoes on a radiator. Fill them with newspaper or something similar and let them dry at room temperature.
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Brush dirt off with a dry brush before it becomes ingrained.
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Water proof and brush new shoes before use.
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Brush shoes at least once a week. Work the polish well into the leather - and do not forget to get right into the stitching.
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The good old method of polish and hard work is still unsurpassed. Newfangled "easy-shine" products are no substitute.
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Select brushes, shoe cream, waterproofing agent etc. with care. Always use the products recommended.
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To make sure your shoes retain their shape it is a good idea to use a shoetree when allowing your shoes a "breather". One made of untreated sandalwood is recommending because it also absorbs moisture from the leather.
Generally, Shoes to look out for are tighter than normal fit (the foot should not shift), compatibility with the pedal system, and a thick and molded (not flat) sole. Make sure they are not too tight though, or your feet go numb. Avoid excessive padding that can take forever to dry after in the rain. Boots that are pulling over the shoes have two functions: they keep the feet warm, and in wet weather, they keep them dry (not completely, especially if holes for pedal cleats are cuts into the soles, but dry enough to stay warm). Boots work better in the rain if long pant legs are pull over them because the pant leg otherwise acts like a wick. They come in many variants.
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Shoe Material Care
Calfskin
Use a conditioner or cleaner to remove surface residue and to keep the leather soft and pliable. Apply a coat of shoe cream or polish with a cloth or horsehair dauber and allow to air dry. Remove excess polish by brushing with a horsehair brush and buff to a desired shine.
Napa Calf
Use a conditioner or cleaner to remove any foreign residue and to restore leather's natural softness and durability. Use shoe cream or polish to match color and maintain luster and allow to air dry. Remove excess polish and wax by brushing with horsehair brush and buff to desire finish.
Shell Cordovan
to remove any residue in areas where the shoe flexes, and to maintain the good look of the leather, simply brush with a horsehair brush or wipe with a soft dry cloth. Polish occasionally using cream to maintain a rich, dark color.
Tumbled Grain
Tumbled Grain Leather can be clean by using a soft damp cloth to remove dirt and residue. Finish with an application of shoe cream and allow to completely air dry.
Suede & Unbuckle
The suede cleaner spray bar and suede brush are ideal for removing dirt and restoring the nap to suede and unbuckle leathers. Use a suede combo brush for spot treating and detailing. For maximum water protection, apply a suede-protective spray.
Patent Leather
Use a mild soap and damp cloth to remove any residue. Follow up by buffing the shoes to a brilliant shine with a soft dry cloth. The Tama patent leather care can be use.
Exotic Leather
To maintain moisture in exotic leathers, apply an exotic leather conditioner and regularly wipe footwear cleans with a soft flannel cloth.
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Watch
Mechanical Watches
Mechanical watches are the traditional "wind-up" or analog watches with numbers or marked dials and moving hands. They are power by a mainspring and operate via a series of interlocking wheels and gears. To set the gears in motion, mechanical watches must wound either automatically or by hand. The automatic watch wound continuously as the owner wears it: when the wrist moves, a rotor, or weight, inside the watch drops by the force of gravity, causing the mainspring to wound. Since the mainspring of an automatic watch maintains full tension for a longer period than a hand-wound watch, it has greater consistency of power and, therefore, greater accuracy.
Electronic Watches
An electronic quartz watch is a battery-powered watch that contains a tiny quartz crystal that vibrates to measure time. Usually the crystal is synthetic quartz and vibrates over 32,000 times per second. This high number of vibrations gives quartz watches extraordinary precision--many are capable of accuracy to within one minute a year. Quartz watches have fewer moving parts than mechanical watches and are less likely to break down over time.
Quartz Watches
The quartz digital watch displays time using numerical digits in an LCD (liquid crystal display) instead of moving hands. A battery causes the quartz to vibrate and a computer chip translates these vibrations into the display. These operate with the same accuracy as electronic quartz watches.
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Water Resistance
Most watches on the market are water resistant. A watch should be marked "water resist" to confirm its level of resistance to moisture, as there are several degrees of resistance. Water-resistant: It is wearable if water is being splash, but it should not be expos to any water pressure. It is protect from perspiration or accidental immersion in water.
Gray-Market or Unauthorized Watches
Gray-market watches are genuine watches from the original manufacturer that were acquiring from an unauthorized dealer or reseller prior to customer purchase. Manufacturer warranties are not valid for these watches.
Watch Care
Watches can easily be soiled by sweat or dirt. To keep them clean, wipe the face, case, or band regularly with a soft cloth, paying special attention to the back of the case. Leather bands should be wiped with a soft cloth, but metal bands can be cleaned with soapy water and a soft brush. Watches should not be left in extreme temperatures, as this could damage the watch or shorten the lifespan of its battery. If your watch is an analog quartz watch, do not expose it to magnetism--it may temporarily stop working or show a time loss or gain. To sustain water resistance, have your watch checked regularly and maintained according to manufacturer instructions.
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Apparel
Pants
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Shorts some made from flexible material sewn together from multiple panels, sometimes with different colors. The seat and front is padded with leather (hard to find and not useful) or synthetic chamois. Sometimes the padding contains gel cushions, but this is a bad idea because they do not let sweat evaporate to the outside, and they do not even improve comfort noticeably. Shorts come in male and female versions that are cut differently, and have different padding.
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Regular pants may constrict your thighs (which expand when you ride), and they will chafe the inside of your thighs where they rub against the saddle, especially if they are loose fitting because they bunch up. If you are concerned about looking geeky, there are versions with an outer part that looks like regular shorts, with invisible inner shorts.
Make sure that the waist and leg whole size fits. Shorts must fit tightly but may not constrict the waist or the thighs (sometimes leg holes are far too small). Waist straps are useful but not necessary. The legs should have rubber threads sewn in at the leg ends. It usually looks like multiple thin white rings stitched into the inside. Do not buy pants that just have a single rubber ring sewn into a fold, they slip.
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Long pants come with and without padding. The ones with padding are like shorts with long legs, and the ones without are worn over regular shorts. I prefer the latter because I don't need as many of them, because I can take them off when it gets warmer, and because I have found the padded variant to slip easily. Pants must be close fitting, and must be long enough to pull up at least over your navel (you don't do that normally but if you can't they will slip). I prefer pants with a cord at the waist that keeps them up better. (I have found such cords to be unnecessary in shorts.)
Long pants have the same advantages over street clothing as shorts, with an additional one: in wet weather street clothing becomes heavy, inflexible, and clings to the skin.
Long pants come in various thicknesses, from the thin material used in shorts to thicker with a fuzzy inside, and as fleece. I have them all: the thin ones for warm weather down to about 10 degrees C, the thick and fuzzy ones for temperatures above freezing, and the thick fleece ones for anything lower than that. (Fleece does not work well in rain.) Some of them have zippers in the lowest part that makes them easier to get over the feet (or even shoes); the material is flexible but pulling too strongly will tear the seams.
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Rain pants go over long pants and are made from waterproof material. They are very uncomfortable on skin because they are basically sturdy plastic bags. All the ones I have tried begin to leak after a few minutes, and they get in the way when riding. I recommend against them. The only marginal advantage is that the spray from rear wheels without mudguards does not soak the back of your pants but I have found it to be almost as effective to stuff a plastic bag between shorts and long pants.
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Shirts
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Some special shirts made from lycra or other synthetic material. They come in long-sleeved, short-sleeved, and sleeveless variants.
Although it may sound unpleasant to wear a plastic shirt, the big advantage of T shirts is the fact that they transport sweat from the skin to the outside very efficiently. It takes very hard effort, while a T shirt would be soaked very quickly. This is especially important in wet weather because a soaked shirt feels much colder. The sweat transport is less effective for very thick jerseys, so it is important to choose the right one and not ``overdress''.
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Undershirts are a very effective addition to jerseys. They can be worn underneath in cold weather, which works better than choosing a thicker. The material is amazingly thin, which means they can be rolled up to a very small bundle and carried in a jersey pocket. They do not work so well if worn without a jersey over them, and they need more frequent washing because they soak more easily.
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Jackets work well in cold weather. I have never found a combination of undershirts and a fleece jacket to be too cold even below -20 degrees C.
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Rain jackets come in cheap plastic bag versions that seem to get as wet inside as outside because of sweat. The Gore-Tex version is worth its price because it keeps one dry if one does not ride too hard. The cheap plastic bag jackets work better when they have slits in the back, and if they are smoothly rubberized inside and not just tightly woven because otherwise they only last for a few minutes in the rain. Good rain jackets reach very low in the back so you can sit on them to protect from spray from the rear wheel.
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Fabric and clothes
The maintenance of the clothes made of synthetic fiber and blending fabric
First, wash it in plain water. Then use the weak basic detergent with the water temperature under 40 degrees centigrade. Dry it by hands gently instead of using washing machine. Straighten the clothes and hang it in cool and well-ventilated places. Don't expose it in the sun. The ironing temperature should not be high (the Fabric containing chlorofibre: under 70 degree centigrade; the Fabric containing acrylicfibre: under 100 degree centigrade.) If it is a bright-colored fabric, the ironing temperature should be lowered moderately. Don't use much force when ironing the clothes and keep the electric iron moving constantly. Pad is needed to prevent the fabric from softening.( The Fabric containing vinyl on can't be ironed with water) Store it after drying and cooling.
The maintenance of the clothes made of silk
Wash the Fabric and clothes made of silk with neutral detergent. Wash it gently by hand instead of using the washing machine. Dry it in the cool places. Never expose it in the sun. When the clothes are dried practically, iron it with a white cloth pad. The ironing temperature can be a little high but don't squirt water on it in case that watermark will be left. Dry it before you store it. Don't put moth-ball in the light-colored bleached fabric for fear that it will make the fabric yellow.
The maintenance of the clothes made of the cotton
After washing the clothes with the weak basic detergent, rinse it in plain water. Don't brush it forcefully in case that it will pill. Don't expose it in the sun too long. The ironing temperature should not be high. You'd better put a white cloth pad on the clothes when ironing. Store it after drying and cooling.
The maintenance of the clothes made of Wool fabric
Wash it with neutral detergent in the lukewarm water. Don't soak it in the boiling water. Wash it by hands gently. Then dry it in the well-ventilated places. Put a wet pad under when ironing. The Fabric containing chemical fiber shouldn't be high-temperature ironed or ironed repeatedly. When you store it, please keep it dry and moth proof it. You'd better hang it up.
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Sun glasses
Glasses protect the eyes against the wind, sun glare, and small objects such as bugs, and sand and gravel kicked up by other riders or cars. Try to get some where you can attach different glasses to the same frame, you may need both gray shades and clear ones. I do not like orange or yellow ones; they are supposed to increase contrast but I have a hard time judging whether that is oil or water on the road in front of me. The brown color filters the bright blue sky somewhat. Do not buy lenses coated with ceramics. True, they have no static electricity problems, but they scratch easily, are very hard to clean because they grab the cloth, and they become less clear with age. If you wear prescription glasses, your options are severely limited.
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