StyleShake: Your Personal Online Tailor

You create the design, StyleShake.com makes the dress for you. It is the new era of tailoring.

By a click of the mouse you can create your own dress or rather customize from available styles or choose from available completed designs submitted by other users like yourself.

If you would like to start from scratch, you can start by choosing your preferred fabric. Fabrics ranging from linen, cotton, silk and silk metallic, all of which will play a role in the final price of the dress. You can then proceed to choosing the styles for your upper body, neckline, sleeves, all the way down to the trimmings.

One tricky thing is, you have to take your own measurements. This will ensure you will get a perfect fit. For this, StyleShake has a "size guide" page with instructions on how to take your own measurements. After all that, if the dress still does not fit, you can send it back for a free alteration.

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Designer Labels at TheCorner

Earlier in March, TheCorner opened its door to designer-lovers, whose craving extends to the likes of Marc Jacobs, Viktor & Rolf, Etro, Rykiel Homme, Givenchy and Hussein Chalayan.

The online shopping website is brought by Yoox, an already successful shopping website based in Italy.

TheCorner launched with the Spring/Summer '08 Men's Collection by 20 selected designers, promising 20 more brands to join for Fall/Winter '08 collection.

Shoppers can expect a different shopping experience by browsing its exclusive virtual boutiques or "corners", furnished with digital look books, runway photos, and images from advertising campaigns.

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Colour-changing Nail Polish

We have been granted the pleasure of changing our nail colours since the invention of nail polish.

But if you would like to see your nails change colour right before your eyes, you will need a special nail polish for it, like the Del Sol's Color Changing Nail Polish, for instance.

"Reckless" is its best-selling nail polish that turns to a pink hue (right) when you are outdoor but will turn back to white (left) when you are indoor.

The secret is in the Spectrachrome® crystal dyes in Del Sol's products which reveal their colours upon exposure to the sun.

Other colour-changing products by Del Sol include jewellery, T-Shirts and accessories. Just a few more reasons to go outside in the sun.

• Color Changing Nail Polish - Reckless [Del Sol]
  

Yahoo! Shine for Women

Should you be in the need for advice or discussion of the daily life, head on to Shine. Not physically, virtually.

Shine is a new Yahoo! website for women to get together, connect and be informed.

The site features original blogs from its staff along with contents from major publishing partners including Conde Nast, Hearst and Time.

If you have the flair for writing, readers can also start their own blog that may end up featured on the site.

Shine promises to be different than other already abundant women-focused websites. Go ahead and take a look for yourself.

• Shine [Yahoo!]
  

UM Carry Bag

I just love it when things are not the way they seem to be but in actuality, functional and fashionable at the same time.

At a glance, this bag looks like an egg, a dinosaur egg. OK maybe I have watched too many documentaries or Steven Spielberg's movies. But you have to admit that it does not look like a bag, at least not at first.

When entirely unzipped, the bag opens flat for easy dry cleaning and storage. When zipped, it is a fully-functional dinosaur egg, I mean bag, that is stylish nonetheless.

What is interesting about this bag other than its ingenious design, is that it is made from excess industrial wool felt, that might otherwise get discarded.

The UM Carry bag, as it is called, is from the UM bags collection which comes in 4 shapes, Carry, Tote, Clutch and Hold.

• UM Carry [Branch]

Painted Art Shoes

How would you like to wear a piece of art on your feet? Something you would consider having on display rather than wear it. "Ndeur" shoes are exactly a piece of art you can tread on.

The shoes are painstakingly handpainted with various designs uncommon on regular shoes found in stores.

The perpetrator behind this brilliant concept is Mathieu Missiaen, a Canadian graphic artist who paints on, not only shoes, but almost anything.

Vintage shoes are often used for this venture, but upon request, those who prefer their own shoes, can also send in their shoes to be custom-painted.

Ndeur designs are modern, fun and what is categorized as street art. This is evident by the name given to each design, for example, Skank n Play (featured here), Screech and Brutus, and neo berlin.

• Skank n Play [Ndeur]
  

Wooden Bead Maxi Dress by Beaumont Organic

This simple yet interesting dress by Beaumont Organic has all the characteristics required by a woman who cares for her environment.

Looks simple yet stylish, this dress speaks "Nature" through its organically grown cotton fabric and wooden beads.

This beautiful, loose-fitting dress wears comfortably by itself or with a t-shirt.

• Wooden Bead Maxi Dress [Adili]