Women’s Wallets – Different Styles for Different Lifestyles
When a woman changes handbags the first thing she does is grab the wallet out of the first one and put it in the second. It’s important that a wallet be roomy, compact, versatile and organized. Fortunately there are many types of women’s wallets and each woman can choose the ones that will work best for her and her lifestyle. Or if you’re thinking about a gift for your mom, sister, significant other or even a friend, consider their personality before making your selection.
Credit Card Wallet: Some women don’t like to carry cash or a checkbook. They buy everything using credit cards. All they need is someplace to keep the cards safe and organized. Or some women find it practical to have one wallet for cards and a separate one for cash and/or a checkbook. She can carry them both in a purse or just take one depending on the occasion.
Checkbook Wallets: While most of the world has become increasingly card-centered, some women still need to have a checkbook handy. The best way to carry a checkbook is in a checkbook wallet. A good one will have a compartment where the checkbook will be protected as well as slots for credit cards and a drivers license. There might also be a space for a pen as well so you don’t have to rummage around or ask to borrow one when it’s time to write a check.
Fabric Wallets: A fabric wallet is fun. You can get them in all sorts of colors and patterns. They can coordinate with your purse, your outfit, or your mood. Fabric wallets tend not to last as long as old fashioned leather wallets but some people don’t want things to last forever. While some women will carry the same wallet for years, others enjoy a change. Moving the credit cards and ID’s to a new wallet might seem like a reasonable thing to do on birthdays, holidays and major sale days. It can be a pleasure if the destination is an exciting new wallet in the latest designer fabric.
Travel Wallets: A travel wallet has a lot of work to do. A woman who travels internationally is going to need her passport, plane tickets and boarding passes within easy reach. A good travel wallet will provide designated spaces for each of these as well as for a drivers license and credit cards. A nice touch is two or more separate compartments for different currencies.
Clutch Wallets: A pretty clutch wallet can carry all the essentials. It can be tucked into a purse during the day and can be used as a clutch purse for an evening on the town. A clutch wallet is designed to be seen.
Coin Wallets: Coins can add immeasurably to the clutter in purses and pocket. Unless coins are kept someplace secure they have an unfortunate tendency to fall out of things and scatter and roll around. A coin wallet with a good snap enclosure that coins can’t slip past is good. A zipper is even better.
A wallet is not just a practical essential – it is often seen as a fashion accessory. There are so many types of women’s wallets so each woman can find one that is large enough or small enough, with more cash or card space, made of leather or fabric. Choose the one that’s right for you. Or buy one as a gift for someone special.…
Custom Jeans As a Status Symbol
In case you hear the phrase “jeans are the most democratic piece of clothes” once again be sure the person who said it is hopelessly behind the age. Of course, back in 1880 jeans were considered to be clothes for workers and their price never got higher than 22 cents, afterwards they used to be worn mostly by students and represent an indispensable attribute of picnics in the country, but all this is past now. Today jeans can be seen ar cocktail parties, in offices and even on the Red carpet. Together with high quality watches, luxurious cars and jewelry custom tailored jeans have become to a symbol of status, which importance is not dependent on world fashion trends.
Their way in the world of high society started probably in the 1970s and 1980s with the help of Calvin Klein and Gloria Wanderbild, who created the first expensive and skinny designer jeans. However, the real “jeans revolution” happened in Japan. Evisu and 45rpm brands made an accent on the unusual quality of denim, its finishing and indigo dying process. Selvage denim is today the most demanded type of jeans fabric among the world’s most established brands. Some of the pants manufactured from it cost $300 to $1.500 and their production lasts up to several years.
The trend was later developed in Europe and America. Chanel, Tom Ford, Gucci fashion houses as well as many others started to design custom jeans – with cuts, feathers and African beads which cost $3134 for a pair, A Guinness Book record back then. Of course, today the prices grow further.
American brand A.P.O. Jeans makes custom jeans on a by-order basis ad their prices are above $4000. These jeans are sewn from high quality denim manufactured in India, back pockets are embellished with satin with printed customer name and the number indicating exclusive nature of the jeans model. This principle is known in exclusive jewelry manufacture, where you can find the owner of a jewelry piece by model number. The zippers of A.P.O jeans are polished and covered with gold, and buttons and rivets are made to order from silver, white or yellow gold or platinum, or are even encrusted with brilliants. Another recordsman is Escada fashion house which manufactures luxurious $7000 jeans under Escada Couture trademark. The most expensive model costs $10.000 and is totally covered with Swarovski crystals.
However, let us leave the Guinness Book of records and just look 5-6 years back to see the establishment of numerous small companies specializing on manufacture of jeans. Of course, the companies come and go, but the trend stays. Remember the excitement about Juicy Coutire and Seven for All Mankind? Today these Californian brands are nearly forgotten, for each year new jeans labels appear. The most popular for today are J&Company, Getwear, True Religion, Cheap & Pepper, Paper Denim & Cloth, Notify, Citizens of Humanity, Acne Jeans, Gold Sign Jeans, Kova, Earnst Sewn.
Buyer of Parisian boutique Colette Sarah Lerfel where made to measure jeans from Europe and America occupy a very important place believes that such interest towards jeans is explained by tiredness of too complicated and sophisticated clothes. Jeans are simple, elegant and sexy. However, simple doesn’t always mean cheap.…