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What We V Wednesday Honor & Integrity Week 2010 Drop in Dialogue: Thurs, Feb. 12th, 11 am -1 pm 2nd Cate * Bring iunch and join in a discus sion on academic integrity, Honor Councii process, piagarism detection, and more! Sponsored by Honor Council & SAF . 'Amy Hruby "1 Actmties: Writing Letters - With * tcchnolog>' taking over the world, I find myself communicating more and more through email and text messages. I rarely even make phone calls, and I'm sure most Meredith students feel the same way. But somehow, an anti-evolution of sorts is occurring, and letter-writing is coming back in vogue. Suddenly, stationary^ lines are becoming popu lar again, and paper goods stores are popping up around the country'. 1 now write weekly letters to a few of my out-of-state friends, and I’ve started doing a lot of stationary' shopping online. Here ai'e a few of my favorite lines: DESIGNdesTROY (destroy.etsy.com), cute.n.boot, (ktolve.etsy’.com), hellotenfold (hel- lotenfold.com), kikki-K (kikki-k. com). Clothing: TOMS - Founded by- Blake Mycoskie, this shoe com pany's claim-to-philanthropic-fame is that for each pair of shoes y'ou buy from the company they will donate a pair of shoes to a child in . need. Since the start of the compairy /, i|L2£w6, TOMS has donated more 400,000 pairs of shoes—all funded by customers. But not only- arc these shoes charitable, they're also beconring a fashion trend across the nation. Featured in Vanity Fair, Time, People, Vogue, Glamour, and most other popular- fashion and news outlets, TOMS are best known for aesthetic and com fort appeal. Made of simple canvas (with vegan options available), they come in all colors, including hand-painted versions. Person ally, I’m coveting the gold glitter- pair, and I hope to be wearing them this spring. Maybe other Meredith women will be appealing to their fashionable and charitable sides and joining me? Holidays: Valentine’s Day - I have always had mixed feelings about Valentine’s Day. Having been single and dating on the Februar-y I4ths of various years, I’ve always had similar experiences: chocolate and candy, a dinner with friends or a significant other, maybe even flower-s (whether I've bought them for myself or not). This year, I have scoured the internet and racked my brain for some fun, semi-off-beat, out-of-the-oi-dinary' things to do on Valentine’s Day. Enjoy: 1. Have a pink confetti fight. Who hasn’t always wanted to throw tiny strips of paper around? You can buy it or make your own. Just get a few people together and start throw ing! (And keep a vacuum nearby for cleanup.) 2. Make heart shaped cookies and top them with red frosting, then use white tubes of frosting to draw portraits of the people (and things) you love on the cookies. - , 3. Buy red cellophane paper and cardstock and make red-tinted glasses to w-ear for the day. Eveiy--^ . ; thing you see will seem full of eithe'fx extra love or extra rage. Maybe trj: watching your favorite chick-flick oijjH your favorite slasher movie with th^B glasses on? 4. Buy fabric paint and plain t- ; S shirts and create your own Val- • j cntinc’s Day tees. Maybe they'll j say (insert name here) 3s (insert name here)...or maybe they’ll depiyf ^ bleeding hearts and daggers. It’s up ’ to you! 5. Wear a pink tutu and be the Val entine’s Day Faiiy. Enough said. Turquoise; A Trend in the Making Erin Etheridge, Staff Writer Most individuals’ first reaction to the word “turquoise” involves a mental image of skillfully crafted Native American jewelry. However, according to the fashion industry, such a response needs to change to clothing this season. Numerous fashion houses are revealing fanci ful creations, including handbags, blazers, and evening gowns, that are making turquoise the color of the season. Despite the hue’s recent popularity, the turquoise trend has been around for decades, slowly gathering momentum to become a spring 2010 fashion phenomena. In actuality, the tendency to wards turquoise began over half a century earlier in 1956. According ’ to the online article “1956: Retro Fashion History,” turquoise was one of the year’s most desirable colors. The trendy and slim Em pire designs of the period focused attention upward to the head. where huge hats of exotic colors, especially turquoise, proved the perfect finishing touch. Turquoise tweeds also became a must-have in outerwear. The turquoise fad continued into the eighties, as reported in a 1985 Montreal Gazette article titled “Did you rate among the year’s fashionable?” Specifically, the Newshouse News Service explained that turquoise was one of the year’s colors of choice because of the suspender-wearing protagonists of the popular television show Miami Vice. Wanting to appear like Sonny and Rico, young men began to don brightly-colored suspenders, par ticularly turquoise ones. I am sure that we would all love our signifi cant others, male friends, and male relatives to revive this trend! The turn of the millennium also prompted a resurgence of turquoise high-end fashion pieces. Cathy Horyn of the New York Times confirmed such a turquoise revival in her July 16, 2000, article, “Couture Days: Saint Laurent’s Perfect Score.” She purposefully referenced French designer Chris tian Lacroix’s fall 2000 couture collection, which featured mink and motorcycle-inspired leather pieces dyed turquoise. A decade later, the turquoise trend has reached new heights. For instance. Pantone, a prominent design industiy color company, named its 15-5519 Turquoise the Color of the Year for 2010. Pantone Color Institute Executive Direc tor Leatrice Eiseman observed that “In many cultures. Turquoise occupies a veiy special position in the world of color. It is believed to be a protective talisman, a color of deep compassion and healing, and a color of faith and truth, inspired by water and sky.” Most recently. the Grammy Awards, which took place on January 31, were aglow with the fashionable blue hue. Lady Gaga, whose Giorgio Armani tur quoise leotard was complete with matching boots, demonstrated just how far the turquoise trend has extended. Clearly, the fashion industry’s fascination with turquoise for spring 2010 comes as no sur prise. Turquoise pieces have been a fashion staple for decades. So, even if you think you are sporting tqrquoise to appeal to the latest fashion trend, watch out! You are really donning a piece of fashion history. 7
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