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In the last months we witnessed a big increase in the number of outlet stores in whole Italy. Every region has got at least one of them. Near our cities we certainly watched the rising of one or two. But what exactly are they? What’s the deal in concrete?
Outlet store is a different kind of mall, specialized in retail sales of famous brand products unsold or already out of catalogues. This kind of shopping center is practically made up of a gallery of different shops, both mono-brand and multi-brand, all gathered together in the same place, with common services.
But in the last years, given the huge increase in the demand of outlet goods, some production lines are expressly dedicated to this distribution channel.
So there are not just last year goods, but real lines of clothing expressly produced for this final market sector.

In time of crisis, a lot of people don’t want to give up wearing fashionable and branded clothes, but not everybody now can afford this way of life. Buying clothes in the outlet stores has begun just to face exactly these problems, and this is also why they are expanding so fast. Here you can find branded clothes of the best fashion houses, but at very reasonable prices in comparison with boutiques’ prices.
There are already more than 200 outlet stores in the whole peninsula, an unequivocal sign that this is a strong developing phenomenon, in the both sectors of supply and demand.

Another characteristic is their architectural structure. Outlets, on the contrary of shopping centers, are often build up as small towns, with streets, seats, alleys, and shops along the roads and streets. Their design is much different than usual malls, which are closed spaces, with loud music coming out of the speakers and neon light that could hurt somebody’s eyes. Lately many outlet stores have been developed according to specific regional architectural themes, for example some of them adopted a neoclassical style in Veneto, the land where the famous neoclassical sculptor Canova was born, or they have been realized inspired by the Renaissance style in Tuscany. These solutions make the environment much more pleasant, so is much more comfortable to walk down its alleys, in comparison to close spaces with no windows of usual shopping centers.

Quietly walking down the lanes and the alleys, you can admire the windows of every shop, like if you would be walking in the city square, plus with no traffic. You can find any kind of clothing and accessories, from skirts, shirts and trousers to bags and shoes, always branded but always at sale prices.
Walking in this peaceful atmosphere, in ample and well-cared places, maybe with some trees, you have the chance to shop much more peacefully. Inside the outlet there are also a lot of restaurants and rest stops, where you can spend a pleasant break when hunger attacks. Or you can just sit on a seat when you are tired from walking.

The outlet phenomenon is rather new in Italy, but it is quickly and decisively getting a foothold in our lives.
Rather than fighting for sales price, that often are just last years left-over or clothes that we already rejected because really ugly, not to talk about having to fight to make some space among hundreds of other cutthroat customers, in these places you can find real offers during all year, good quality products at reduced prices.

These are all good reasons to go take a look and let you be captivated by these nice temples of fashion!

By Martina Meneghetti with support from clothing outlet stores for any information, please visit fashion district outlet or for more info visit factory outlet stores .

This is nature’s unbreakable rule the most breathtaking things in the lives of women are jewelry. No matter at what age. It is almost impossible to find any women without any jewelry. Be it casual or party women will always be busy buying jewelry, here are 3 articles discussing about the rules of jewelry shopping, bonded diamonds and designer watches.

RULES FOR PICKING THE SUITABLE JEWELRY

Rule #1.

Buy Jewelry only from respected shops:

The most important thing in the process of buying is trying on. When choose a ring, put it on your finger, and feel how cold metal is warmed by the heat of your hands. Look at it, turn it, and admire it, Check if the shape suits you and other important detail is – feel the gem. It must stir up only pleasant emotions and joy, and nothing else. There should be no disharmony and hesitation, If it clicks then it’s really meant for you.

Rule #2.

Determine the Shape:

Put delicate rings on the little finger one by one. Wearing some rings on the same finger looks cheap, even if one of the rings is a wedding ring.

Usually rings are worn with large gems either on the middle finger or on the index finger like fantasy rings with one huge jewel or with a bunch of small gems. Women with thin fingers should avoid wearing rings with large gems.

Long earrings-pendants are suitable for women with a long neck and exceptionally with smooth hair-dos. If you are on the fleshy side you may consider wearing massive jewelry and earrings-buttons.

Rule #3.

Get acquainted with new collections:

Since jewelry’s fashion often keeps changing. Designers want women wearing coldly-classical sets with diamonds or the most incredible combinations of gems. Naturally women should specify the need of jewelry and with what are you going to wear it.

Rule #4.

If you plan to buy a jewel with a name and genealogy, get acquainted with its history.

Do you know that, there are a lot of legends connected with the origin and displacement of great gems. Wars, arsons, robbery and murders – all these happens because of a comparatively small gem. Diamonds are eternal and who knows when one of the famous gems will rise from the dead?

Bonded Diamonds:

When for diamonds, consider dealing with a bonded jeweler. Bonded jewelers sell bonded diamonds, and there are very few bonded jewelers in the world. Buying a bonded diamond will cost more than buying a non bonded diamond, but when you look at what you get with the bonded option, you will see that it is well worth the extra expense.

Bonded diamonds have a breakage policy. If the stone breaks or chips, the bonded jeweler will replace it with a new one only once because bonded diamonds are natural and unprocessed.

A huge advantage in purchasing a bonded diamond is that it has a buy back policy for the life of the diamond. No matter how long you have had the diamond, you can take it back to the bonded jeweler and sell it back to him, for a 100 percent refund. Bonded diamonds increase in value. Once you purchase a bonded diamond you are well protected in case of market fall, the value of diamonds will definitely collapse but you will get a refund against the bonded diamond.

Bonded Jewelers are difficult to find in many areas.

Designer watches:

Designer watches are taking the watch market by storm, with designer options out selling many traditional watch brands such as Rotary, Seiko and Quartz.

In the yesteryears when watches were just simply practical and boring purchases today it has changed completely to a stylish and fashionable purchasing commodity. Today every person buys watches which is suitable to go with the right clothes and

Today there is a good growth of designer watches brands in the market. Brands such as Channel, Dior D&G, Emporio Armani have now been joined by Playboy, Miss Sixty and Marc Ecko.

If you want to look like a celebrity then the Navy by Police Watches have never been so fashionable and so affordable and readily available.

“Whom can you trust when your culture is the biggest enemy of your health? Can you trust your culture’s leading authorities? Can you trust your culture’s government? Can you trust your culture’s private industry?”

We asked those questions in 1995, at the end of our book, Dressed To Kill: The Link Between Breast Cancer and Bras. Before writing our book, we sent details of our research to the National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, President’s Cancer Panel, American Women’s Medical Association, National Organization for Women, National Women’s Health Network, and National Women’s Health Resource Center. There was no response. Not one. Given the lack of interest, we decided to publish our findings in a book, getting the information directly to the women who needed to hear it.

But are women getting the message?

It has been 13 years since our book was first published. Over that time, more than 500,000 women in the US alone have died from breast cancer, with another 2,000,000 having been diagnosed with this terrible disease — a disease that is in most cases preventable by simply loosening up or eliminating the bra. And yet, this lifesaving information has been actively suppressed and censored by the medical and lingerie industries.

Examples of Suppress and Censorship

A large public relations firm in New York City was willing and eager to help us release this information to the public. “My wife just had breast cancer, and I’m sure you are right,” the head of the firm confessed. A big media announcement and celebration were planned. Days later, however, the firm withdrew its offer to help, stating that one of their clients, a large medical center, objected to their working with us.

A Sydney, Australia public relations firm agreed to help publicize our work when we were doing outreach efforts in their country. But it, too, reversed itself. We had asked if they had any conflicts of interest, such as lingerie industry clients. They said they had none. But as it turned out, they did represent a pharmaceutical company that makes a breast cancer treatment drug, and the prevention of breast cancer and its treatment are in conflict, they explained.

The Intimate Apparel Council (which is the US trade association for the multi-billion dollar bra industry) threatened our publisher, Avery Publishing Group, with a lawsuit if Dressed To Kill was released. The publisher said the publicity would help spread the word. The lawsuit never materialized.

After the book was released, the NBC television news show, Dateline, was interested in doing a story on our work. We were extensively interviewed by a skeptical reporter who became a supporter. The story was then abruptly terminated. The producer confidentially explained that the policy of General Electric, which owns NBC, is to avoid airing news stories that can adversely impact on other GE interests. As it happens, GE is a manufacturer of mammography machines.

Women’s magazines, such as Glamour, Self, and others, ran critical stories condemning our work, and finding “experts” to encourage women to continue wearing bras. Elle magazine planned a positive story about the bra/cancer link, but was coerced into pulling the story by bra advertisers. In various newspapers around the world, such as the Guardian in the UK, stories were pulled prior to publication because of fear that they may “panic the public”, including their lingerie advertisers.

The British Fashion Council (which is the UK’s equivalent of the Intimate Apparel Council) published the Breast Health Handbook in 1996 to oppose our efforts. They announced the formation of the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Foundation, which was to receive donations from bra sales to fund genetic research into breast cancer. The book criticized our work, claiming, “The idea that wearing a bra encourages cancer by trapping toxins was recently put forward by researchers at the Institute for Culturogenic Studies (sic) in Hawaii. Researchers from more august establishments promptly dismissed it as claptrap.” Without any medical evidence or research, the book informs women that wearing bras is a health necessity, and should be worn as early in life as possible to prevent breast damage.

Our original publisher, Avery, was purchased by giant Penguin Putnam in 1998. The new publisher did not list the book for three years and refused to revert publication rights to the copywrite holders, Singer and Grismaijer. The book was virtually unavailable, and it was thought to have gone out of print. Finally, after repeated requests, the publishing rights were released to us in October, 2001. (ISCD Press has been keeping it in print since then.)

A television documentary was produced in the year 2000 by Channel 4 in the UK, called, Bras- The Bare Facts. In the documentary, 100 women with fibrocystic breast disease went bra-free for 3 months to document the effect on breast cysts and pain. Two prominent British breast surgeons conducted the study. The results were astounding, and clearly demonstrated that the bra is a serious health hazard. We were interviewed for the program to discuss the bra/cancer connection, which was considered highly plausible and important by the doctors interviewed. Some theorized that, in addition to lymphatic impairment, the bra could also cause cancer by overheating the breasts. The documentary made newspaper headlines in British Commonwealth countries throughout the world, but no mention of it was made at all in the US. The following day, headlines in the U.K. tried to suppress fears of the bra/cancer link, and the doctors in the study quickly distanced themselves from the cancer issue, telling women to continue wearing bras. Their research for the documentary was supposed to be published in a medical journal, but never was. And no further research ever materialized to follow-up on their work, which they said they would do. Extensive news coverage of the program was available on the Internet soon after it aired, but most articles were removed shortly thereafter.

No follow-up studies have been done to refute or confirm our research. None. While a Harvard study, published in the European Journal of Cancer in 1991, discovered that bra-free women have a lower rate of breast cancer, the results were not central to the research they were conducting and were considered unimportant and not followed-up. In fact, apart from our initial 1991-93 Bra and Breast Cancer Study, discussed in detail in Dressed To Kill, and our follow-up research in Fiji, discussed in our book, Get It Off!, there are still no other studies on the bra/cancer link. Not even a letter or discussion of the issue can be found in any medical journal. After decades of breast cancer research, the bra is still completely ignored as even being a potential factor for consideration. It’s like studying foot disease and ignoring shoes.

Keeping the Public Mystified

This lack of research, and the consequent ignorance, are then used by cancer organizations to justify further suppression of the issue. As the American Cancer Society states on its website, (ignoring the Harvard study), “There are no scientifically valid studies that show a correlation between wearing bras of any type and the occurrence of breast cancer. Two anthropologists made this association in a book called Dressed To Kill. Their study was not conducted according to standard principles of epidemiological research and did not take into consideration other variables, including known risk factors for breast cancer. There is no other, credible research to validate this claim in any way.” And they don’t seem interested in funding any such studies in the near future, either. There are other organizations that are similarly critical of the bra/cancer link for lack of research evidence, while at the same time discouraging any research on the subject.

Of particular interest is when breast cancer organizations antagonistic to the issue declare the bra/cancer link to be “misinformation” or a “myth”, without any scientific study supporting their claims. They say bras are important for women to wear for support, without any evidence showing bras are safe or necessary. They then encourage regular mammograms, cancer prevention drug therapy (not realizing that “prevention therapy” is an oxymoron), and even preventative mastectomies (which means that those who are high risk for breast cancer but who don’t want to get it can have their breast removed as a prevention strategy). Of course, it is better to remove the bra instead of the breasts, but bra removal is not a billable procedure.

Keep in mind that bras have been associated with other health problems, such as headaches, numbness in the hands, backache and other postural problems, cysts, pain, skin depigmentation, and more. And lymphatic blockage, which is the result of bra constriction, has already been associated with various cancers. Clearly, the bra/cancer link needs further research, while women take the precaution of loosening up.

Why the resistance?

What harm could there be in following our simple advice, or in even researching this issue? Why the defensive reaction?

There are three reasons:

1. The bra industry fears class action lawsuits. Many insiders have admitted to us that for years the industry suspected underwires were causing cancer. They know that tight bras cause cysts and pain. It is only a matter of time until a lawsuit is made against a bra manufacturer. As a defense, the industry is shifting the blame to the customer, claiming that most women are wearing their bras too tightly, and should get professional fittings. (How do you get a properly fitted push-up bra?) Breaking ranks with their industry peers, and trying to capitalize on the bad news, are several bra manufacturers that now offer newly patented bras claiming to mitigate the damage, including cancer, caused by conventional bras.

2. The medical industry is making billions each year on the detection and treatment of breast cancer. As mentioned above, there is a conflict between the prevention and the treatment of disease, especially if the prevention does not include drugs or surgery. The fact is that our treatment-focused, profit-oriented medical system is making a killing treating this disease, and has billions to lose if breast cancer goes out of fashion along with bras.

In addition, the bra issue will revolutionize the breast cancer field, embarrassing many researchers. Breast cancer research to date that has ignored the bra issue is seriously flawed as a result, which is why the “experts” are still unable to explain the cause of over 70% of all breast cancer cases. Career cancer researchers who have ignored the bra issue will have to admit this fatal flaw in their work, which they are not inclined to admit in their lifetimes.

3. Finally, there is the dogmatic, fearful resistance from some women who find their personal identity so connected to their bras that they would rather risk cancer than be bra-free (which some women have actually told us.) Women are cultural entities, and so long as our culture scorns a natural bustline, many women will submit to the pain, red marks and indentations, cysts, and even the threat of cancer rather than face potential public ridicule (which never really happens.)

There are also women who believe the myth that bras will prevent droopy breasts. The bra industry admits this is a myth, while it still promotes it to improve sales. In fact, bras cause breasts to droop, as the breasts become dependent on the bra for support and the natural supportive mechanisms atrophy from non use.

Despite the resistance, however, some women have gotten the message. And many health care professionals, who have also suspected bras for years, are now spreading that message. As women hear the news and discover that eliminating the bra also eliminates cysts and pain, the news further spreads by word of mouth.

There are now thousands of websites on this subject, many from health care professionals including medical doctors, naturopathic doctors, osteopathic doctors, chiropractors, massage therapists, lymphatic specialists, nutritionists, and others who care about women and helping end this epidemic. Grassroots efforts to keep this information alive and spreading have supplanted the traditional medical research approach, which has disqualified itself for lack of interest and conflict of interest.

When a disease is caused by the culture and its habits, attitudes, fashions and industries, there is bound to be resistance to change. Industries that contribute to disease will be defensive, and industries that profit from disease will be conflicted. However, the truth has a way of getting out, despite the resistance and suppression. Thank Goodness the truth does have a way of getting out.

Sturdy furniture lasts for a long time and some even are there for a lifetime. Making furniture requires lots of skill, knowledge and dedication and America’s largest furniture outlets know that. And now, let us go back in time and find out how they have all started.

Whether your concentration in furniture is its history and progress, the carpentry and influential skills involved in creation of fine furniture, or you are just simply looking for furnishings for your own home, then, you might well just visit a furniture factory outlet nearby. And there are lots of big furniture outlets all around the country that might help you with what you want. But, ever wonder how they have all started?

John Mathias Bernhardt, the founder of Bernhardt Furniture Company, became an orphan at the age of 13 when his parents died. He and his brother faced life together, but fate had different plans for them. They were employed in a local general store. His brother stayed in a retail business while John Mathias went to the west and soon secured work as a government surveyor. It nearly took his life assisting settlers at the frontier. Everything went well and he survived all the difficulties and he returned to begin an enterprise after three years at the frontier and soon his venture became one of the country’s top producers of commercial and residential furniture around. Today, this flourishing endeavor is one of the oldest family enterprises in America.

From the founder R.L Simpson, the name Simpson Furniture appears. He was a skilled furniture retailer and his venture started in1946 when he bought an old building in Cedar Falls and little did he know that it would be Cedar Valley’s biggest furniture business in the making. A fire ravaged his hopes and dreams in 1983 and the business faced many losses. No one knew whether Simpson Furniture would still rebuild in downtown or just relocate to another place. Simpson Furniture decided to stay and rebuild a new and even bigger store at the very center of downtown Cedar Falls in that very same spot where it started.

Furniture Affair started way back in 1989, on Bell Road in Phoenix Arizona, in just a small overcrowded room. Nancy Rhodes, the President and CEO of Furniture Affair, was a flourishing stockbroker. Since she was a born entrepreneur she got the idea by just looking at beautiful model homes which was her favorite pastime. As of today, her company is known to be the pioneer in the resale of discount furniture, furniture appraisals, interior design, model home furnishings, and installations.

The Woodstock Furniture Outlet, started in 1988, with the help of Jr. Aaron’s family; he established and opened the doors of Woodstock Furniture Outlet to the public. It is known for its customer friendly salesmanship and great deals of home furnishings. Starting with just about 6000 square feet building located on Hwy 5, the business continued to develop and the call for more space was unavoidable. So the Woodstock Furniture Outlet moved into a new location, at the intersection of Bells Ferry Road and Hwy 92 in a 25,000 square foot building. Since they have a wider area, there is a need for a furniture store and the Aaron’s anticipated the on going trend is increasing and they should meet every customer’s needs. It is a furniture store where everything you need is here to furnish your home. They offer a wide array of home accessories and a huge floral department brimming with floral designs, a living room and dining room models.

Other furniture factory outlets include the Webster Furniture that can be found on Route 1 near Rehoboth Beach, the CORT Putnam Furniture Rental that offers many selections that will fit the needs of corporations, students and professionals, the Hornell Furniture Outlet situated on Main Street in Hornell, New York, the Becker Home Center of the Huseby family that was founded in 1978, the Brownlee’s Furniture, a family-owned business which is located in Lawrenceville, Georgia, the Malouf Furniture that started in Downtown Greenwood, Mississippi, and the Furniture Outlets USA.