Word: surfer
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...trend, however, encourages customers to take their time while shopping, to relax in an aesthetically pleasing environment. Taking one’s time is part of what these lifestyles brands are selling. You’re a yacht-loving preppy at Polo Ralph Lauren, and a carefree California surfer at Hollister...
...thudding Hulk; for every Shrek, a wildly off-orbit Treasure Planet. They also fret that with so many seen-it-before films clogging the May-June release schedule, sequel fatigue may set in. Pandya suggests this could hurt the June 15 opening of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, a follow-up to the 2005 film Fantastic Four...
...don’t translate. Exhibit A: finding an adequate Spanish counterpart for the word “jolly” (the closest we got was “bárbaro” – like “awesome,” but less painfully Californian surfer dude). Exhibit B: explaining the idiom, “to gird up one’s loins.” (My professor’s attempt: “Before battle, you secure everything here”—pats bottom—“so nothing falls...
...Ports 1961, a label based in Xiamen, China, showed a soft, pretty collection inspired by the gauchos of Argentina. And Diesel honcho Renzo Rosso pumped up the volume with his 1980s-style high-waisted skinny jeans and blousons - all in white and gold. Finally a trio of California surfer dudes who go by the name of Trovato presented their collection of preppy chic polo shirts and cotton canvas clam-diggers in a tableau vivant that was meant to evoke an estate auction. They sing their tune by way of telling elaborate stories that give the straightforward merch a sexier context...
...people, Biles is in tune with "what's me and what isn't." Take competing, for example. Though she took it up only when she came to Gerringong, she's now devoted to surfing. And she's good at it. Other beachgoers say she's probably the best female surfer in town; certainly the keenest. But when friends urge her to enter competitions, she just shakes her head. "Competition isn't me," she says...