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If you’re willing to give others a try, the instructions strike me as thorough and detailed: you’re not going to get lost in the middle of project. Gotold clotheslaying around that you’d like to get rid of… responsibly? Sure, you can drop them off at a thrift store… if they’re in good shape. But if you’ve got jeans and shirts with holes or tears in them, they’re only good for the rag bag or the trash can… right?Those would be the options I’d likely see… fortunately, many folks are much more creative, and see all sorts of possibilities in that “junk.”

We’ve given a lot of space to the concept ofupcyclingover the years – our readers seem to enjoy these ideas – so whenFrances Lincoln Publishersoffered to send me a free review copy of their forthcomingReCraft: How to Turn Second-Hand Stuff into Beautiful Things for Your Home, Family, and Friends (affiliate link), I took them up on it the New Men's Ralph Lauren Slim Custom-Fit Nautical Polo.

Sewing is definitely the main focus here: nearly all of the projects featured inReCraftinvolve fabric, needles, and thread. Don’t let that scare you off, though: in addition to the projects themselves, the authors also share basic sewing practices at the beginning of the book. And if you just don’t want to go there, a handful of projects – the glitter cup candles, for instance, or secret compartment book – require no needles or thread at Ralph Lauren Slim Custom-Fit Crested Stripe.

polo shirt For projects requiring fabric cut in unusual shapes, the authors have even included templates in the back of the book. There’s still plenty of room for individual expression, though: the authors even encourage that early on, as they focus on working with what you’ve got in terms of material.ReCraft is a fun book that ought to spur the imagination of even the most non-crafty among us. It’s hitting shelves this week… if you decide to pick up a copy, let us know what you think.

Authors Sara Duchars and Sarah Marks are definitely among those who see the potential in those old clothes (as well as other second-hand items), and they’ve shared dozens of projects that will allow you to explore your crafty side.

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A crowd congregated outside the Grafton Street store at about 3pm to try to catch a glimpse of him, but only press and some menswear customers were allowed to meet the star.

polo shirt the clothes have been inspired by the style of his grandfather, Jack Farrell. “It’s the working-class peacock,” Williams said, describing the brand.

Farrell was from Kilkenny. “His parents were navvies that went over to Staffordshire. He was in the second World War and later worked in the pits and was a working-class man from a working-class family. He came from an era where the working class had their own tailors,” he said.

Williams was frank about his involvement in the clothing line.

“I’m not a designer. I’m not going to lie to you and say that I am. The thing I do for Farrell is DJ clothes. If a DJ goes ‘I like this record’ and he puts it on, people go ‘yes I like that record too’. In every piece there is a secret stash pocket. I don’t know what you’d put in there, but I wish I had it from about 1991-1997,” he added on the Men's Ralph Lauren Classic-Fit Big Pony Stripes Blue White.

He also revealed he’s found out about “a dirty little secret” in the fashion industry, which he shared. “It’s called ‘inspiration pieces’, which means we take an old piece of vintage stuff and knock it off.”

“You mean we make it better,” interjected fashion designer Ben Dickens, who works on the clothing line with Williams the Ralph Lauren Custom-Fit Flag Polo Shirt Spain Black.

Williams certainly knocked off some of Victoria Beckham’s vocabulary. “I know what [clothes] make me feel empowered,” he declared. This was redolent of the former Spice Girl turned clothes designer, who kept repeating that she wanted to “empower women” during her recent trip to Brown Thomas.

The fashion line includes shirts, sweaters, cardigans, blazers, trousers and coats, with prices ranging from €50 to €500. Plus I love the logo. I hate logos. But these are muted and cool.

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Universal Mind F**k (UMF), a clothing line founded in 2007 by Buffalo resident Acevedo, is unique in both name and purpose. Rather than looking for inspiration from larger brands that “don’t truly help anybody,” according to Acevedo, UMF wants people to look at its clothing and ask questions: What is that? What am I seeing? The brand wants people to ask questions and search for answers.

The name, like all UMF clothing pieces, doesn’t have a single meaning. There are layers and those layers contain “subliminal messages,” he said on the Ralph Lauren Classic-Fit Big Pony Polo Blue golden.

“It’s universal,” Acevedo said. “When you think of universal, you think about everything and essentially it’s what you’re supposed to think of: everything. And then ‘Mind F**k’ is the confusion that’s brought to you whenever you watch TV or whenever you go online, whenever you even talk to people in the street.”

The “Mind F**k” is the noise constantly thrown at you to confuse you, Acevedo said, the noise that takes you off your real thought process.

It was the name and the meaning behind it which sparked the attention of Jevin Gonzalez, senior mechanical engineering major at Buffalo State College and designer of UMF.

“Throughout my whole life, I thought of the universe,” Gonzalez said. “I thought of life in general as a whole big miracle, as a whole big experience that humans have to go through in order to be something greater than what we are right now, and [the name] is what sold me.”

About a month and a half after Acevedo had launched the company, Gonzalez – who learned of UMF through his girlfriend – contacted Acevedo and told him he was an artist. That wasn’t the first time Acevedo was approached by someone claiming to be an artist or a model, so it was only after Gonzalez came back with three sketches that their partnership began the Lacoste Women's Short Sleeve Polo Shirt Dark green.

Those sketches ended up being part of the following season’s collection, and Gonzalez and Acevedo have been working together nonstop ever since.

UMF has grown quicker than Acevedo expected.

In February 2011, the first T-shirt was sold. From selling to people on the Buff State campus and to his friends, UMF is now in multiple stores and on a various websites.

“I went from selling four T-shirts to 25 T-shirts,” Acevedo said. “From 25 to 90, from 90 to probably 150, and that was within the first six months of my company.”

Each season, UMF releases clothing based off a central idea. This past summer, the theme was patriotism, aliens and a universal take over.

Whether it’s a shirt featuring Uncle Sam with the words ‘brainwashed in the USA,’ a Health Ledger edition for the recently released Dark Knight Rises, a Mighty Ducks T-shirt or a childhood cartoon with his head cut off – each shirt has its own message.

Many of the designs are inspired by graffiti and urban artwork, something that sparked Gonzalez’s interest in middle school.

“[Graffiti], that’s just the roots,” Gonzalez said. “That’s where we started from the beginning of time. The cavemen writing on walls, from the Egyptians carving their stuff in the pyramid walls, and all of that is just straight culture.”

The purpose behind the company is not to get people to buy clothing; it’s about evoking thought. At the end of the day, it’s about showing the designs to people and allowing them to create their own opinion, according to Acevedo.

UMF is reminiscent of the early ’80s movement, when seeing art evoked feeling and drove people to act.

“Whether it be think, whether it be walk out and clean your streets, whether it be help a lady across the street, we’re just trying to get people to think differently from what they’re used to,” Acevedo said.

It was Gonzalez’s parents who instilled the values he has taken with him not just through his life, but that would be transferred into the message of UMF as well. “A mind is a terrible thing to waste” –his father told him when he was in sixth grade. They stuck with him.

The polo shirts to saying became his first priority in life, pushing him to become the first person in his family to attend college.

The Universal Mind F**k logo encapsulates the entirety of the company’s message.

The UMF logo, which features a brain with an eye and the UMF acronym, represents everything, according to Acevedo.

“It’s an enigma and a confusion,” Acevedo said. “But when you look at it closely, you will see the UMF in there, you will see the eye – which is your mind’s eye or your conscious eye – and the lines in it represent the paths that you might take. Everything is contained [but] it doesn’t really stop in there.”

Currently, the company is working on its fall drop, which will be a dark season as opposed to the bright, colorful pieces of its previous seasons. While attempting to fashion this to look rugged, the trim made it look like it was haphazardly sewn or sewn inside out. Ridiculous looking.

The shirt did not have the usual tidy appearance of a polo shirt. I suspect the collar would always look wrinkled. It was a return. HISTORY has a reputation as boring and irrelevant,'' says the executive officer of the History Council of NSW, Zoe Pollock. That is why Threads, the theme of History Week, is taking history ''out of libraries and museums'' to reach anybody who ever got out of bed and wondered what to wear.

Mens Long Sleeve Polo Shirts the history of clothing, our aim is to reach people who might not to go to a library or pick up a history book,'' Ms Pollock said.

There will be exhibitions and talks on what clothing says about Australian history. ''Everyone can relate to clothing,'' said the dress historian Margot Riley, a curator with the State Library of NSW. ''At some point of the day, we all have to make decisions about getting dressed, and that's very much relevant to the history of our daily lives.''

The council asked six fashion designers to design clothing using a historical figure as their muse. The snappy dresser who gave his name to Bennelong Point 200 years ago is the muse for a new blazer and tie by the contemporary gentleman's tailor P. Johnson to launch History Week.

Ralph Lauren Polo Short Sleeve and a lot of the indigenous men responded to Western dress,'' Ms Riley said. ''They didn't like trousers, so they'd picked and chose what aspects to take on. They definitely liked jackets, particularly their warmth, and they liked display features like fancy silk shirts. And they also loved hats.''

Jean Garling, a lieutenant in the army medical service during World War II and arts patron, was the muse for a khaki dress by Camilla and Marc. It has a skirt fit for a ballerina, and the top has epaulettes and an army belt.

Annette Kellerman, an Australian swimmer who in 1907 was fined for wearing a body-hugging one-piece on a Massachusetts beach, was the inspiration for the designer Zimmerman.

Polo Logo Shirts For History Week (September 8 to 16) events, see historycouncilnsw.org.au/history-week. The logo is a bit large but having monochromatic stitching helps keep it minimally unoffensive to the eye.

very comfortable. not your average polo shirt due to the exposed edges. its very difficult to find a long sleeve polo and this has an edge. Over the past decade, the Dutch house DJ Tiësto has emerged as an EDM scene leader with his finger on the pulse of its culture. Last year, he launched his clothing line CLVB LIFE, which featured black and white t-shirts with pastel graphic prints for men and women. Now he's expanded his fashion vision in a collaboration with the brand Guess for its Guess/Tiësto Nyt Lyf Collection, which you can check out in these exclusive first photos.

Set to hit stores on October 10th, the 22-piece capsule line includes button-down shirts, black and indigo skinny-fit jeans, leather and coated-twill jackets, graphic tees and more. Some of the clothes feature bright, striking blues and reds, while others display the Nyt Lyf logo in muted grays. The DJ worked with the designers at Guess in the goal that the clothing reflect the relationship that fashion has with electronic music.

Embroidered Polos the collaboration came about after Tiësto formed a friendship with Guess CEO and Creative Director Paul Marciano. "He is more than just a DJ," said the CEO in a press statement. "He is very multi-faceted and truly understands what it takes to build a brand." The latter sentiment rings especially true when considering all that Tiësto has put into building his own brand. In addition to releasing countless records of his upbeat, synth-heavy floor movers, the DJ has contributed music to video games, worked as an ambassador for the AIDS charity dance4life and toured the world repeatedly.

This fall is proving equally busy for the DJ. On Sunday, he will headline the main stage of New York's Electric Zoo festival, which also features the EDM heavyweights Skrillex, Diplo and David Guetta. After that, he'll embark on his Club Life College Invasion tour beginning in Syracuse on October 2nd, which will take him to 15 cities around the United States.

Tiësto sat down with Rolling Stone to talk about his latest foray into fashion, the style basics of the EDM world and his love for the road.

Why did you want to collaborate with Guess?
I've always had a lot of respect for Guess. I think their clothes are really well made and I like how they are a global brand, kind of like my music. The collaboration [with Guess] has given me a lot of creative inspiration, as well as really helped me understand how the fashion world works.

How did the collaboration come about?
It happened really organically. Paul Marciano and I became friends, and we both felt that it would be a successful adventure together. Plus, Guess are the perfect clothes for my audience. They are sexy, well-fitted, perfect for a night out at a club.

How will the line differ from what you offer with CLVB LIFE?
This collection is a lot larger than my first CLVB LIFE one. We focused on tees for CLVB LIFE. With my Guess-designed line, there are jeans, leather jackets, tees and more. They are both inspired by the same things, though.

What sorts of things?
It reflects a lot of elements around electronic music. A big part of the lifestyle is about looking sharp and dressing for the occasion. The line reflects that desire and is focused on the sorts of looks that I stand for.

Cheap Ralph Lauren Polo Shirts the How did you guide the Guess designers toward the looks you wanted?
I worked really closely with their team when I was in Los Angeles. My role was more of artistic direction: telling them elements that I do and don't like, cuts that I think work for my crowd, detailing the things that I'd like to include and the overall concept. They've got some incredibly talented designers there that were able to work with my ideas to create the line. I'm really excited about seeing how it goes down.

One thing that stands out about your clothes is the stark color combinations on the t-shirts.
With my collection, some inspiration was taken from the look of the LED screens at my concerts. The lights and video projections are an essential part of my shows. I want everyone at my show to have the best experience I can give them so they never forget it. The lighting, LED screens and pyro are all part of this experience, bringing another dimension to the show.

Speaking of playing live, you're embarking on your second Club Life College Invasion tour in October, around when the Guess line comes out. What are you looking forward to most about this installment?
The last tour was such a whirlwind. It was amazing to travel so rapidly through the States. Every city has a story and experiences attached to it, and the energy of the crowds was amazing. I'm excited to dig a little deeper into the United States. I had such a good time on the last college tour and I felt very connected to the people. The production we're taking with us is going to be bigger than any dance act has taken to a college market before.

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