Cloggs, the UK shoe retailer, has voiced its approval of recent actions taken by the Metropolitan Police Force, shutting down hundreds of websites selling fake UGG Boots.

In an effort to crack down on bogus UGG Boots websites (either selling fake UGG Boots or fake websites that were purely designed to conduct identity fraud), the Metropolitan police have shut down over 400 illegal UGGs websites in recent days. This ensures that legitimate sellers like Cloggs.co.uk are left to sell real UGG Boots on real websites, and that the consumer’s pockets are protected.

However, even though the Metropolitan police have taken this drastic measure, this doesn’t mean to say that there won’t still be bogus websites out there. Whilst this will cause concern amongst potential buyers, Cloggs.co.uk knows just how to identify genuine UGGs websites from fakes. In association with Consumer Direct, the government service for advice on consumer issues, Cloggs.co.uk has produced a checklist on its website that consumers can use to check sites for legitimacy before they part with their hard earned cash.

Cloggs.co.uk meets all of the criteria specified on the check list, so customers can rest assured when they buy from Cloggs that the UGGs are genuine and that the website is legitimate.

Nick Thomas, Cloggs.co.uk Director, said: “As UGG boot sales continue to rise year upon year in the UK, so do the number of fake UGG boots websites, which mostly originate from criminal gangs in Asia that buy up .co.uk domain names. All these websites are designed to do is make money illegally - either by selling fake products or using the website to gain identity information that will be used illegally elsewhere. Cloggs.co.uk applauds the efforts made by the Metropolitan police to protect UK consumers this Christmas and is glad to support this effort by promoting a handy website checklist to ensure that consumers don’t get stung when buying UGG boots in the future.”

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H.Samuel has announced the launch of Chamilia jewellery, one of America’s most popular personalised jewellery brands. Chamilia promotes the tag line, ‘Your Life Your Style’, encouraging its customers to be creative, adventurous and express themselves, their mood and lifestyle through their jewellery. By introducing Chamilia H.Samuel is leading the trend this year for beads and charms.

The Chamilia collection is available online and in selected stores. The collection includes high quality Chamilia beads made of 14ct gold and sterling silver and features a wide range of fun and fashionable designs including crown-wearing frogs, Mother’s day beads, Disney beads, and many more including beautiful Murano glass.

With up to 200 bead designs and a variety of chains, clasps and spacers, Chamilia jewellery offers customers bracelets and necklaces that can be endlessly mixed, matched and personalised to commemorate an event, occasion, relationship or friendship. The breadth and depth of designs and creative possibilities gives the customer an ever-changing feast of design options so they can customise their jewellery and always be fashionable, for less.

Chamilia jewellery features:
- High quality beads: 14ct gold, sterling silver and Italian Murano glass
- Exclusive Disney© Designs: all your favourite characters
- New designs: new beads are released through the year
- Up to 200 bead designs: Chamilia charms give customers the freedom to express themselves

About Chamilia
Chamilia was founded in New York in 2002 by Killian Rieder and Jeff Julkowski. Killian Rieder had previously designed for Ralph Lauren Polo, and wanted to allow women to customise their jewellery to a mood, moment or memory, in the same way a chameleon changes to fit into its own environment.

About H.Samuel:
H.Samuel is the nation’s favourite High Street jeweller with more than 350 stores and a retail website at www.hsamuel.co.uk.

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In the spirit of the celebration of our nation’s independence this month, Ventura Tan, a leader in natural, organic airbrush tanning and sunless tanning products, is proud to declare independence from the hazards of sun damage with a variety of products for the summer tanning season. Ventura Tan prides itself on offering the best quality products for those seeking an authentic tan without the harmful rays of the sun. Satisfied customers include celebrities, models and movie studio make up artists.

“July is all about independence, and with the summer tanning season in full swing it’s time for serious tanners to declare their independence from the hazards and negative health effects of sun tanning,” says Sheila Brown, marketing director, Ventura Tan. “Ventura Tan’s sunless airbrushing is not only a safer alternative to conventional tanning, it also offers a more natural, lasting tan than conventional spray tanning techniques. No summer is complete without a perfect tan and Ventura Tan offers just that, without the health risks of long term sun exposure.”

According to the FDA, traditional sun tanning carries a variety of risks and health issues. These hazards run from aesthetic issues such as sunburns, wrinkles and leathery skin, to serious health problems such as skin cancer and cornea damage. Founded in 2004 as a way to give customers a natural looking, painless tan without the health issues associated with beach tanning, Ventura Tan offers a wide range of organic and all natural products that helps customers achieve and maintain the perfect tan.

Ventura Tan offers tanning equipment and supplies to both salon’s looking to add sunless tanning to their business as well as individuals looking to get a summer tan in the privacy of their own home. These include a variety of organic and all natural products from the Organic Princess line, which features sunless tanning spray, body wash, tan extenders, Pineapple Dew Exfoliant, Vitamin E Butter and more. The Princess Line also offers Ventura Tan’s all natural “Tan In A Can” which delivers a nice, even tan without the unsightly orange coloring that other tanning lotions leave. “Tan In A Can” is available in “Beach” and “Natural” coloring and can be applied without visiting a salon.

Featuring a full line of retail and wholesale products that imparts a natural, year-round summer tan, Ventura Tan uses state-of-the-art technology and equipment that results in a superior sunless tan. The organic, all-natural products are created in FDA-approved laboratories and can be purchased online at www.venturatan.com and at authorized Ventura Tan salons and resellers.

About Ventura Tan
Founded in 2004, Ventura Tan offers state-of-the-art sunless airbrush tanning products and equipment for salons and consumers. Ventura Tan believes strongly in a business model based on strong moral and ethical business standards, backing its products 100 percent while offering one-on-one training and support for salon owners. Ventura Tan’s owner purchased the company after being diagnosed with skin cancer, perfected Ventura Tan’s product selection and business model at her own salon in South New Jersey. Ventura Tan quickly became a leader in the sunless tanning industry. To learn more about Ventura Tan wholesale or retail products, please visit http://www.venturatan.com or call (866) 545-8133.

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Toronto Canada gets a new modeling agency, Styles Model Management inc. Mike Disney, owner of Styles Model Management was owner of an entertainment agency in Chicago for 18 years.

Due to a failing American economy & a desire for a fresh new career, Mike looked to his own home town, Toronto Canada for prospects. Mike has a love of fashion & creative people. He saw many modeling schools that provide crash courses in becoming a model but non that help develop a model’s skills over a long time. Modeling agencies are busy booking established & experienced models. Mike saw the need for a modeling agency in Toronto with a friendly, mentoring aproach. Modeling is a skill that is developed with lots of practise over time. Thus Mike opened Styles Model Management inc. Free seminars are provided to the models. Models are also introduced to test photographers & stylists to spend much time practising their skills & getting posative feedback from industry professionals. As Mike says ” A day not in front of the camera is not a good day.”

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The trend now is for maternity wear to have a breastfeeding capability as well. Spokeswoman for Fertile Mind, a supplier of maternity clothing, Christine Kininmonth agrees.

“The popularity of nursing clothesgenerally has risen tenfold in the last two years, but the new trend is for pregnancy clothing to be suitable for breastfeeding as well.” she says. “We have stores demanding dresses and tops that are long enough to cover pregnant bellies and that can stretch back to be worn after the baby is born PLUS have a breastfeeding design feature. Ruching at the sides is particularly popular, as it flatters a pregnant tummy and hides a post-baby one.”

Christine says maternity dresses such as Mothers En Vogue’s Dana dress are the way of the future.

“The Dana dress has the stretch for maternity and the discreet breastfeeding openings for nursing. Pregnant women get hot easily, so the dress has 50% cotton. There is also plenty of Spandex for stretch and Modal for softness.”

Fertile Mind has been in the maternity wear business for more than 10 years. “We saw the rise and rise of breastfeeding clothing and the trend towards fitted clothes that sit tight across the pregnant belly. Now the two have combined, and there is a demand for fitted clothes that you wear for a lot longer than nine months.”

The Dana dresses are available at www.fertilemind.com.au.

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The kit that turns normal clothes into maternity wear has been tweaked to be even better for early pregnancy. Inventor and founder Christine Kininmonth says the change is only the second in 10 years.

“We listed to feedback from our customers and heard that women wanted to wear Belly Belt earlier in their pregnancy,” she said. “The changes we’ve made in our maternity kit mean you can now wear your trousers, skirts and short the moment you can no longer button up your fly.”

Belly Belt is an Aussie success story. The maternity kit is now sold throughout the world.

“We have a lot of enthusiasm for Belly Belt in many places, but Burma is probably the most exotic,” Christine says. “If I think back to the early days, I would never had imagined we’d be selling my little Australian invention in Burma!.”

The success of Belly Belt led 10 years ago to the formation of the company Fertile Mind. Christine and her business partner Peter Hooker now employ six staff and have a warehouse filled with maternity dresses, maternity jeans, breastfeeding tops, nursing pillows and maternity accessories.

“We’ve diversified into a range of maternity wear and nursing wear,” says Christine, “so we’re probably one of the growing players in the Australian maternity industry.” Fertile Mind is a family-friendly workplace, so most of the women selling maternity wear are mums themselves.

‘It’s important for us to sell only maternity wear and breastfeeding clothing that we would have bought for our own pregnancies,” emphasises Christine. “We’re mums a few times over so we’re pretty picky.”

While Belly Belt is one of the more successful of their maternity accessories, it’s getting a run for its money by the Milkbar Portable Nursing Pillow.

Christine enthuses, “This pillow has just taken off. We are sending out mountains of these to our maternity store and baby store stockists, they are selling so well.”

The Milkbar Portable Nursing Pillow was invented by a Sydney mother to ease back and shoulder strain when breastfeeding a baby.

“It’s wonderful to see inventions such as Belly Belt and The Milkbar gain a following, as it’s a credit to mother-inventors,” says Christine.

Maternity stores and baby stores will be receiving the new Belly Belt kit from today. Christine hopes it will make the Belly Belt more popular that ever. “Pregnant women in Australia have been very supportive. They may be cautious spending as much on maternity wear in a recession, so Belly Belt has its place in a flat market.”

Belly Belt maternity kit sells for $29.95 and can be found at www.fertilemind.com.au.

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The Headshop Wigs Online is turning heads with innovative, quality wigs and hairpieces for people. Individuals desiring a wig or a hairpiece have their own personal reasons for making such a choice. Some people buy these products to make a fashion statement, while others simply want something that will allow them to express their clandestine personality.

Another reason why people buy wigs and hairpieces is because they are seeking a way to combat medical hair loss. Many men and women suffer from genetic hair loss. Baldness is more common in men than in women, but both sexes can experience this problem. With these points stated, more and more people from all walks of life desire the use of wigs and hairpieces, and the Headshop Wigs Online is a great place to start.

The Headshop Wigs Online offers a wide variety of wigs and hairpieces for both men and women. Top-notch manufacturers like Henry Margu, Tressallure, Tony of Beverly, Revlon, Aspen and many more are ready to greet customers seeking variety and tremendous quality. Recent changes in the Headshop Wigs Online’s website now gives online shoppers even more options than before. Customers can take advantage of competitive prices and an international checkout feature. Wig lovers can also shop by category for human hair wigs, monofilament wigs, children’s wigs, and even for costume wigs! There is also a hairpiece by style section on the website that breaks down the different types of hairpieces offered.

Other special features from the Headshop Wigs Online include a wig care products and accessories section, along with a color match help section that gives customers great options on how to select the right color that fits them best. There is also a color chart and rings section to further aid customers in the color selection process.

Quality and good pricing is what the Headshop Wigs Online strives to give its customer base. No matter what the reason is for a wig or hairpiece purchase, this dynamic online retailer is here to assist and educate on all wig products. For more information on the Headshop Wigs Online, go to www.theheadshoponline.com.

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Ernest Jones, the diamond and watch specialist, has announced the UK launch of a new and exclusive collection of designer necklaces, earrings and bracelets, called Gorgeous Gold. Created around the design philosophy of ‘When you look good, you feel good and when you feel good, you look good’, Gorgeous Gold features a collection of glamorous and affordable jewellery that is both classic and fashionable.

Speaking on behalf of Ernest Jones, Head Buyer Jennifer Dean commented: “The Gorgeous Gold collection is an innovative yet timeless range of jewellery that celebrates the allure and beauty of gold. Featuring a combination of yellow and white gold with smooth shapes and delicate chain detail and enhanced by stunning gems, the collection creates in you a desire to feel, touch and put them on and so we just had to have it for Ernest Jones.”

The Gorgeous Gold collection combines the natural shapes of pine needles and pebbles in two-colour gold with black onyx for a truly luxurious finish. This is a classic collection that evokes a glamorous indulgence of days gone by, whilst embracing modern trends and design.

Consisting of a mixture of drop earrings, drop pendants, multi-strand bracelets and necklaces there is great scope for customers to mix and match their Gorgeous Gold jewellery across a variety of looks. This means that this is not only a glamorous collection, but also a versatile one that can be worn for any occasion, with any look. Gorgeous Gold jewellery also covers a wide price range, with something for every budget, ensuring that customers don’t need to break the bank to afford this collection - despite the luxurious designs and materials.

Gorgeous Gold is exclusive to Ernest Jones and demonstrates a customer focused approach that stays one step ahead of fashion. Gorgeous Gold offers Ernest Jones customers desirable, affordable and luxurious jewellery, perfect for those looking for fashionable bargains in the current economic climate.

About Ernest Jones - The Diamond and Watch Specialist:
Ernest Jones, the Diamond and Watch Specialist, has over 200 stores and a retail website. Featuring a wide range of leading brand watches, diamonds and high quality jewellery, Ernest Jones also has a stunning selection of gifts for all occasions. Ernest Jones is part of Signet Jewellers Limited, the world’s largest speciality retail jeweller.

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Due Maternity, specializing in designer maternity clothing and accessories, launched its newly redesigned web site and social network. Due Maternity offers active, casual and dressy maternity clothes as well as nursing accessories, diaper bags, skin care and even baby clothes and baby gifts. Its online community is a forum for expecting parents based on the idea of a social network.

“We are truly excited to unveil our newly upgraded web site and community, which has always been a unique part of our operations,” said Shannon DiPadova, co-founder, Due Maternity. “In store, we have established a wonderful tradition of pampering moms-to-be and now at DueMaternity.com, we celebrate pregnancy by providing not just a place to shop, but a community in which to share, learn and engage. Today’s expectant moms are embarking on an life-altering experience and our web site offers customers a way to express themselves like never before.”

Due Maternity’s online community engages visitors with the ability to create personal page with baby’s due date, gift registry, next-generation photo and video sharing, guest book, baby due date calculator, baby astrology, and even a way to create custom announcements, baby shower and birthday party invitations. Due Maternity podcasts range from parenting tips to the latest pregnancy styles and trends.

Working with SEOWhat.com to design and produce the new site, Due Maternity enhanced its web site’s organic search engine optimization and search engine marketing. The web design and engineering teams at SEOWhat.com developed Due Maternity’s social web presence as part of the evolution of commerce sites that are becoming sources for education, entertainment and sharing via online communities. This concept brings friends and families together wherever they are.

About Due Maternity
Due Maternity retail stores and online shop featuring the highest quality merchandise and unparalleled customer service, was born out of necessity. While visiting family in Santa Barbara, expectant former publicist Shannon Raffetto DiPadova and her husband, Albert DiPadova, an advertising veteran, noticed an absence of maternity clothing stores among Santa Barbara’s bevy of boutiques, and thus — Due Maternity was conceived. Dedicated to celebrating the pregnancy
experience with beauty, style and a sense of well-being, Due offers one of the largest selections of designer maternity clothes, maternity tees, maternity dresses, accessories, skin care as well as prenatal and lactation classes. For more information, please visit www.DueMaternity.com or call 1-866-SHOP-DUE (1-866-746-7383).

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Tuesday 10th February saw the launch of another series of Coleen Rooney’s successful ITV2 show ’Coleen’s Real Women’. In the very first episode, Ashley Holden, 24, from Preston, Lancashire beat thousands of competitors to be the face of high street jeweller H.Samuel.

Chosen from 5,000 hopefuls, Ashley - a real woman, having slimmed from a size 18 to an 8 - impressed Coleen and the jewellery team so much that she will be starring in H.Samuel’s national press advertising and in-store signage over the Valentine’s period in over 350 stores.

“Ashley had a very warm, natural look,” explained Jennifer Barre H.Samuel’s marketing manager, ”We launched the search for our Valentine’s girl with Coleen in the first place because we wanted a beautiful, yet approachable woman to represent our real jewellery sets. Giving and receiving jewels on 14th February is all about sentiment and emotions, which Ashley clearly demonstrated.”

Young mum, Ashley, daughter of a market stallholder, always harboured dreams of being a model, but never imagined she would be jetting of to Paris on her very first photoshoot.

“I’d never been to Paris before,” said Ashley, still in shock over making it as a model, ”I was over the moon to appear on the programme, but to win the job as well, wearing beautiful jewellery in the city of romance, was a dream come true.”

As Ashley’s own fairytale romance comes true in print, she’s finalising plans for her own wedding in May - something she discussed with Coleen, sharing ideas about dresses and styles. ‘Coleen had plenty of tips; at the time we were filming she was launching her ‘Real Style’ guide, which was a great help for me.’

Surely a great future in modelling awaits this new face of the nation’s largest high street jeweller.

About H. Samuel:
H. Samuel is the nation’s favourite High Street Jeweller with over 350 stores and a retail website at www.hsamuel.co.uk. Featuring an incredible range of branded watches, H. Samuel also has a stunning range of jewellery, collectibles and gifts for all occasions, offering something for every taste and style. H. Samuel is part of the Signet Group, the world’s largest speciality retail jeweller.

H.Samuel has over 350 stores in the UK with over 140 years’ experience within the jewellery market, starting in 1862 with a small store in Liverpool

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Why is it that most of of our talented home grown jewellery designers are finding themselves struggling to make a success of their businesses and is it right that we just stand by and do nothing to support these wonderful creative people?

Britain’s got talent? Well of course Britain’s got talent and its not just our popstars, actors and entertainers but also those from the design lead industries and in particular the jewellery trade. But what is it really like these days to be a young fresh jewellery designer just having left jewellery school or a reasonably established one for that matter?

Should the UK consumer be concerned about these issues? Why should we care in this day of imported mass produced goods that is virtually available in an instant? Its not yet a crime to be English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish but to buy British is becoming increasingly more and more difficult as a our home grown goods are squeezed from the shelves in our high streets. As a nation we are not readily offered the choice to buy British goods and therefore we are manipulated by the large retail companies to blindly support the system of mass foreign imports. This obviously affects all our designers very hard and many simply give up trading due to the lack of support and help from companies that in all reality could change this very unfair consumer driven retail industry.

There are however small glimmers of hope if shoppers were to look a little harder. Websites supporting local talent do exist but again are not always easy to find due to the struggle between the retail giants and the limitless number of bargain style websites selling low cost imported goods.

“We are increasingly receiving more and more compliments from our customers buying from us and who are concerned over the fact that the UK shopper is limited to the same high street designs with no individual choice whatsoever.”say Love2Have Ltd., a recently newly established UK based website who solely and passionately believe in selling jewellery made here in the UK by UK based designers. “Our customers understand that they may have to pay a little extra for something unique or individually handcrafted but it is the high quality that counts.”

“We simply need to support these designers before the industry disappears altogether. It would be a tragedy to lose such an important part of the British identity that is so much part of the UKs heritage that dates back to the time of the Celts. We have experienced ourselves a demise in the number of jewellers that can readily promote themselves successfully due to the cost of trade show exhibitions that once again do too little to really help our talent by charging exorbitant prices for exhibition space and jousting them against large multinational companies in the same arenas. This obviously affects all our designers very hard and many simply give up.”

Britains’ got talent? Well of course Britains’ got talent.

Love2Have Ltd truly believe in supporting our home grown creative talent so to find out more why not give their website a visit at www.love2have.co.uk and help keep our jewellery industry thriving by buying your jewellery from UK based designers. You will find a range of UK made mens jewellery for both men and women including wedding rings, engagement rings, diamond rings as well as huge range of necklaces, bracelets, cufflinks and earrings.

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Customers at Rose Mortem are more likely to discover gowns reminiscent of Cyndi Lauper than Cindy Crawford, and the company is jubilant about its latest direction. The Rose Mortem bridal line features pristine whites in traditional bride-to-be fabrics of lace and satin while still remaining true to the label’s trademark alternative flair.

“We’ve focused on making fashion that feels like the music,” said Rose Hemlock, CEO of Rose Mortem. “There is no reason that shouldn’t apply to special occasions. Releasing a non-traditional bridal line that’s actually tuned in to the times – and making all the gowns available in black or white – was a lot of fun and made sense.” Ms. Hemlock has a right to be pleased. At age 28, with a staff of 6 and a glass-walled studio filled with the sounds of heavy machinery and David Bowie, the formerly Denver-based artist and widowed mother of two is the picture of creative success.

The company is already familiar to most black-inclined fashion enthusiasts. Launching in early 1998, the Rose Mortem label quickly made a name for itself by sponsoring and joining US tours of several European alternative music artists. Among them are German synthpop favorites Wolfsheim, South African rock icon The Awakening, and UK gothic rock legend The Mission UK. Today the music continues at Rose Mortem, with the company hinting at the pending acquisition of an established independent record label before year’s end.

Rose Mortem was most recently featured at the Gothic Cruise fashion show sponsored by Holiday Media / Gothic Beauty magazine and in the magazine’s December issue. Designs are available online at the company’s website and at various retailers throughout the world.

About Rose Mortem:
Rose Mortem is an independent fashion label based in Chicago, Illinois. Launching in Denver, Colorado in early 1998, the Rose Mortem fashion label quickly became a staple source for unique and dramatic custom clothing. Today the label has evolved to offer standard sizes and sells to stores worldwide. The company also specializes in custom fashions for musicians, independent films and theatre productions, and coordinates fashion and art shows featuring musicians and artists from around the world.

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Toronto’s premier wedding boutique is excited to announce the opening of a beautiful second location in Etobicoke. Best for Bride specializes in the sales and rental of wedding supplies and accessories, including designer bridal gowns, bridesmaid’s dresses and jewellery. The luxurious new location is sure to make every bride feel like a princess as she shops for her big day.

Best for Bride, Toronto’s premier wedding boutique (http://www.bestforbride.com) has opened a second location at the corner of Dundas and Kipling in Etobicoke. The new convenient location is easily accessible by public transit, as it is right by the Kipling subway station. The new store’s lavish decor will certainly make brides and bridesmaids feel rich and pampered as they browse through the huge selection of gorgeous wedding dresses and accessories. Pictures and map of the new location are viewable here: Bridal Store in Etobicoke (Mississauga).

Best for Bride sells top quality wedding and formal wear at reasonable prices. Their bridal gowns are made of designer fabrics and feature fancy embellishments. Best for Bride’s dresses are created to fit every bride, from petite to plus-size dresses and come in a variety of sizes and colours. Aside from offering dresses for sale, Best for Bride also rents out wedding dresses and accessories, allowing brides to have a wedding of their dreams regardless of budget.

Presently, Best for Bride is offering an amazing special for the rental of bridal accessories (veil, crinoline, tiara, jewellery set, headpieces, gloves, fur cape and shawl) at the price of only $100. More information about this special, as well as prices for the rental of individual items is available here: Rental of Wedding Gowns and Bridal accessories.

Recently, Best for Bride has begun selling wedding invitations and wedding favours to fulfill all wedding needs for their clients. Now, brides and grooms-to be are able to get their wedding outfits, bridal party wear, wedding cakes and invitations and accessories and favors all in one convenient location.

“We are thrilled to be opening our new store in Etobicoke,” said Olga Pomeransky, manager of Best for Bride Bridal Boutique. “This location is spacious and beautifully decorated and we are looking forward to serving our customers here.”

For additional information on the news of this release, visit www.bestforbride.com, or email sales@BestForBride.com Best for Bride Bridal & Evening Wear Boutique is a one-stop bridal store, with two locations in the Toronto, Ontario area to serve and advise their clients.

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Sandbox Couture, a popular online children’s boutique retailer of baby clothes, girls clothes and baby gifts, today announced the arrival of new holiday designs from the high demand clothing line, Biscotti. Leading the holiday line up are the adorable and festive Biscotti dresses as well as many other top brands promoting the best in holiday apparel for little boys and little girls.

Sandbox Couture brings the top picks from fashion favorites to online shoppers offering specials on Holiday Dresses, Holiday Event Dresses, Thanksgiving Outfits and Christmas Gifts for little boys and little girls.

The boutique online retailer has developed a reputation for offering couture fashions that parents and children both appreciate. From unique designs to the hottest trends, Sandbox Couture’s collection of designers offers shoppers the ability to shop wisely and benefit from online savings.

The newly added styles of Biscotti Holiday Dresses are just a preview of the many fantastic items within children’s apparel and holiday clothes for babies and children available at SandboxCouture.com. In addition, many items in the holiday boutique are on sale. As a special thank you, the online retailer is offering shoppers an additional 10% off by entering in coupon code HOLIDAY10 at checkout. With the value already in place at Sandbox Couture, customers can experience as great as 70% in savings.

Representing this season’s top fashion picks and celebrity favorites, Sandbox Couturehas carved out a niche following among couture shoppers. Known as the source for quality childrens clothes and couture fashions for babies and children, Sandbox Couture has provided busy parents a convenient outlet for quality, value and fashion savvy designs for little boys and little girls.

“Holiday shopping is monumental for both shoppers and retailers. It’s not just about slashing prices and pushing inventory. Customers want quality and value, especially in high fashion children’s clothes,” stated Sam Brown, spokesperson for Sandbox Couture. “From fashion trends to the latest designers collections, our goal during the Holiday Season and all year long is to present the best designers at realistic prices,” Brown concluded.

To take advantage of  Sandbox Couture’s Holiday Apparel Collection, please visit http://www.sandboxcouture.com.

About Sandbox Couture
Sandbox Couture is an online children’s boutique retailer, providing designer baby clothes, designer childrens clothing and unique baby gifts. The company takes pride in hand selecting products from top designers, thereby ensuring quality and contemporary style. Sandbox Couture’s philanthropic contributions and socially conscious business practices are at the forefront of the company’s ideals and corporate culture. Founded in 2005, Sandbox Couture is privately held and headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA. For information about Sandbox Couture, please visit the company’s web site athttp://www.SandboxCouture.com

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Coast, one of the UK’s leading women’s occasion wear retailers, has launched a brand new virtual shopping service called “Fitting Room by Coast” available online at the brand’s new transactional website.

The new service includes the new Coast Stores Fitting Room, a virtual shopping tool which enables the user to choose pieces and accessories and style them together to create outfits for any occasion, all with the click of a mouse.

The Fitting Room features the world’s first group shop facility that enables users to share and discuss outfits and shop with friends, using an instant messaging service in the customer’s own assigned virtual fitting room.

Whether users are a group of friends shopping for a party or a bride planning bridesmaid dresses for a wedding, Coast Stores new group shop feature will enable customers to meet with friends to discuss outfit options, all from in front of their computers.

The easy to navigate Coast website offers all the services of a premium e-tailer, such as numerous product images shot at different angles and a zoom facility enabling users to see close ups of fabrics and details.

As occasion wear specialists, Coast’s approach is to give all products an unrivalled attention to detail. From beautiful in house designs that the brand creates, to the service and environment of the stores, the Coast philosophy is to make the shopping experience a special and trouble free process, a fact supported by the new virtual Coast Fitting Room.

The Fitting Room is live at www.coast-stores.com now.

About Coast:
Since being founded in 1996, Coast has become a leader in women’s occasion wear, dedicated to creating and providing beautifully designed, quality garments for the special times in customers’ life. Coast collections have won several prestigious awards from the UK fashion industry including being named winner of Best Premium Collection at the Ariel Fashion Awards 2006 and the Winner of Best Premium Collection at the LK Today High Street Fashion Awards 2007. Coast was also the Official Women’s Stylist for the 2007 BAFTA Television Awards.

With 52 stand-alone stores and 185 concessions in the UK and Ireland and 60 worldwide, the Coast journey has taken an exciting new step with the launch of the company’s transactional website – another wonderful way to browse and enjoy the very latest Coast collections.

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Official Pro Sports, a leading retailer of professional sports apparel and equipment today announced the addition of many new lines of MMA clothing including top brands such as Chess Game Fight, Extreme Pain. Representing a collection of up and coming contenders in the world of Mixed Martial Arts, Official Pro Sports has captured the essence of what makes the ultimate fighting industry so engaging for fans of all ages and backgrounds. From Triumph United and ADX to Extreme Pain and Sprawl, Official Pro Sports brings forward the hottest brands in MMA clothing and a MMA Gear. You can find MMA shirts from The Pain Factory and Chess Game Fight wear among others.

Featuring top fighters such as Kimbo Slice from EliteXC, Mayhem Miller WEC Fighter, Rampage Jackson UFC Fighter, Team M, Tiki WEC Fighter, and Sokoudjou. The addition of these new lines provides competitors and fans with a variety of comfortable styles and quality threads to practice, compete or simply represent. Official Pro Sports seeks to be the source for professional sports apparel and like many of the fighters of MMA today, the online retailers has quickly made a name for itself among its competition. As part of its low cost shipping policy, Official Pro Sports offers five dollar shipping on all United States orders and seven dollar shipping on all Canadian orders.

“Adding to our selection of MMA clothing, a MMA Gear, and MMA Shirts, has been a continuous effort. We aim to stay ahead of the trends and bring style and value to world of MMA,” said Keoki Kaine, spokesperson for Official Pro Sports. “Offering competitive prices on top brands, we seek to bring the underground world of MMA clothing to the masses. We couldn’t be happier with the recent activity revolving around MMA gear,”Kaine concluded.

Official Pro Sports offers the benefit of one stop shopping for MMA gear and MMA clothing supporting a variety of fan gear across the professional sports and mixed martial arts arena.

As a multidimensional supplier of sports apparel and equipment, Official Pro Sports carries a number of brands in MMA clothing, UFC gear, NFL, MBA, MLB, NHL, Elite XC and motorsports apparel, gear and equipment. By providing low cost shipping rates and competitive prices, Official Pro Sports provides everything you need to “keep it official”. For more information on Official Pro Sports, please visit http://www.officialprosports.com.

About Official Pro Sports
Official Pro Sports is a leading online retailer, providing professional sports apparel and equipment for MMA, UFC, WEC, NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, Elite XC and motorsports. The company takes pride in being a single source for athletic apparel including MMA clothing, a UFC Gear, fight & sports apparel, as well as many other items offering serious athletes official apparel and equipment to compete like professionals. With headquarters in Murrieta, CA, Official Pro Sports is a privately held company. Founded in January, 2008 Official Pro Sports has quickly become a key player allowing customers to “Keep it Official with Official Pro Sports.” For information about Official Pro Sports please visit the company’s web site at http://www.officialprosports.com.

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Leading high street jeweller, Ernest Jones, has announced a new exclusive partnership with premier American watchmaker, the Ball Watch Company. A market leader in design, style and heritage, the Ball Watch Company has a long history of producing stylish, rugged and accurate watches which are historically famous for keeping America’s massive railroad network running on time and are trusted by global explorers and adventurers for their durability and consistency.

As the UK’s leading nationwide diamond and watch specialist, with well trained staff whose expertise are reflected in their customer care and product knowledge, Ernest Jones is perfectly suited to introduce this historic and timelessly fashionable watch brand into the UK.

Ernest Jones brand manager Stephen Gaunt is looking forward to the arrival of this prestigious watch brand from the US, “With one of the largest collections of premium watch brands on the High Street, Ernest Jones is delighted to announce this new partnership with Ball watches. The Ball Watch Company’s brand signature style of quality and durability fits well with the strengths of the Ernest Jones watch range and we are proud to introduce its strong heritage to the UK. We’ve already had a very positive response from our watch-enthusiast customers who appreciate the distinctive good looks of Ball watches.”

The Ball Watch Company was founded by Webster Clay Ball, an American jeweller and watchmaker. He was the first watchmaker to use time signals and in 1891 established precision standards and a reliable timepiece inspection system for US Railroad chronometers. At the end of his career, Webb C. Ball was overseeing 125,000 miles of rail tracks in the U.S.A., Mexico & Canada, having greatly contributed to the security of all railroad systems, using his knowledge of watches, timekeeping and his own, accurate timepieces to ensure that the trains ran safely and on time.

The self-proclaimed mission of Ball watches is to be on the wrist of every direct, no nonsense life adventurer in the search of his or her destiny. Single-minded in their commitment to this vision, the Ball Watch Company is focused on building superior watches that are designed for “accuracy under adverse conditions”.

Working in partnership with Ernest Jones, Ball Watches will bring a brand new spirit of adventure to the UK high street. Ball watches are available now at Ernest Jones.

About Ernest Jones
Ernest Jones, the Diamond and Watch Specialist, has over 200 stores and a retail website at www.ernestjones.co.uk. Featuring a wide range of leading brand watches and high quality diamond jewellery, Ernest Jones also has a stunning selection of gifts for all occasions. Ernest Jones is part of Signet Jewellers Limited, the world’s largest speciality retail jeweller.

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Can you imagine a diet (or regime, as the author prefers it to be called) that allows fattening foods and alcoholic beverages? Have you ever heard of “on days” and “off days” on a regular basis? That is what this unorthodox diet guru explains in the mini-book, “The $100 Diet; How Naughty Pin-Up Girls Stay Thin.”

“It’s about applying the same principal to eating as the average hard working girl applies to her job,” explains author Rachel Car Johnson, who herself has a 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. type job, constant business trips, but still enjoys her nightlife. “You can’t do anything seven days a week without cracking. I finally figured out how to balance it out so that the ‘binge and purge’ end of a yo-yo diet doesn’t exist.”

“The $100 Diet” is the first application based diet book to hit the unbelievably successful iTunes Apps store, making the book downloadable for iPhone users. With meal plans, recipes and exercise regime suggestions, having the book as an iPhone App makes it especially convenient, as users can take the book to the grocery store, restaurants and abroad. “If you are traveling you can still have reference access to what you would normally eat if you were at home,” says the author. “And it will be conveniently stored on your iPhone at the market as well to remember what you have to buy for your meal plan that week.” Don’t have an iPhone? The book is also available through the official website in both PDF and Word formats, which can be read on your home computer or transfered to nearly any smart phones.

Car Johnson has included the secret for getting and staying incredibly thin without starving and giving up life’s guilty pleasures, as well as simple exercise plans to keep a girl’s figure looking especially fit and trim without the backbreaking and time consuming effort. Can you have champagne? Why, yes. Can you have desserts? But of course! Is it easy to learn and to follow? Well, it must be if it’s kept its author’s fleeting attention span. “This book was written for today’s multi-tasker,” states Car Johnson. “We don’t have time to read our email let alone pour over a diet book that may help us brim with self confidence if we could possibly finish and make sense of it. That’s partly why I wrote the book to be purposely short. I have tried many a diet in the last few years and this is what has worked for me.”

Car Johnson grew up in Los Angeles, California — the land of the size 0, where girls are known for being small and petite, but often fall victim to the celebrity diet fads that constantly plague Hollywood. She accounts for the first time she was photographed for her recording artist career and had to worry about being in a bathing suit on film. ”That’s what started the whole thing,” Car Johnson says. ”I was okay, but had to worry about how I would look on film. I don’t have a naturally rail-like figure and had to work at what I did to begin with. But the first diet I was ever on was an extreme.” She began to investigate a plethora of diets soon after and melded a combination of several lifestyles to get the figure she was most proud of and felt passionate about it enough that she decided to write a book about the methods.

What’s the reason for the title? It’s pleasantly simple. Read the book and find out. The pin-up girl bit? Being in music, the author has had to pose for many a picture and has always admired the pin-up model from yesteryear. ‘They didn’t have fancy machines, specialty chefs and pre-prepared meals. They did not have personal trainers. They did it themselves, not having to rely on anyone or anything else.” This mini e-book is a simple, fast and fun do-it-yourself guide to get the classic hourglass figure that you desire and it’s having ladies feeling foxier than ever.

Ironically, Car Johnson is also in love with food. Being an avid cook and a never-ending connoisseur of food, this book also explores several recipes of what is decadently good on your “off days” in addition to tasty dishes on your “on days.”

The book has perfect timing for hitting the scene before the holiday season because the author feels confident that even the holidays can’t ruin it’s method for success. In addition, it will prove it’s worth by the New Year, leaving many a girl confident about keep their 2009 New Year’s resolutions.

To download the PDF or Word version online exclusively at www.thepinupgirldiet.com and also at the iTunes Store under the iTunes Apps Books category:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=294407667&mt=8

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