Unruly gusts of wind also account for the fact that hems of dresses are often weighted down. Other less predictable events are anticipated, too. The Queen might be asked to ride an elephant, as she was during an early tour of Pakistan, or be presented with unusual items of clothing, which will have to be incorporated into an existing outfit. We still love pink, and we have no plan to burn our bras. Women adore beauty, and it radiates from every woman's design. (Speaking of bras: We may give up the painful underwire version invented in the 1940s by Howard Hughes who wanted it on Jane Russell to emphasize her breasts in The Outlaw. Fans of other sports can be excused for finding this moralising a little grating. Other games have ethical codes that are at least as strict, if not stricter. That was true even when the phrase made its first appearance in the Times, in a report on the 1896 Varsity match at Lord's. Easter is next week and I actually pretty excited for it this year. It a pretty nice holiday: you wake up in the morning, eat some chocolate, go to church if you into that sort of thing and have some sort of get together with your family. The only issue I have with Easter is I never know what to wear (and sometimes my family gets on my nerves, but there no solving that problem). With a fresh take on modern ethnic wear, their African designs convey the new global attitude towards fashion. Their designs are modern styles made of beautiful African fabrics which gives each design an elegant look. Bernice Morgan works closely with Bertha Moniba and seamstresses in West Africa to design and incorporate all the latest trends in summer dresses with the glamour of high fashion. Nowhere is our love affair with otherness more romanticised than in our attitudes towards the cultures of east and west. Artists and travellers have long marvelled that on opposite sides of the globe, the world's most ancient civilisations have developed distinct forms of language, writing, art, literature, music, cuisine and fashion. As advances in communications, transport and the internet shrink the modern world, some of these distinctions are breaking down. "Lately, designs tend to be simple, some with fresh flowers. We also get orders for the very ornate. My most recent challenge was a 'Madhatter Cake," said Wilcox. seemed staggering to me that all of these people in my life were being forced to reinvent themselves and it wasn a nice privileged luxury of having a midlife crisis or, have an empty nest, let me start meditating, she said. was more like, suddenly the job I thought was secure was disappearing. It was job loss, foreclosures, divorce.