STYLE BUZZ: Scandinavian galoshes that fit over your regular shoes are being hailed as the Croc alternative. Practical and stylish! May we add that Crocs are neither practical nor stylish?

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1. Wet Weather Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Looking Ridiculous
2. Fancy Wellies You Can Carry Around in Your Bag
3. See Styles on the Official SWIMS Site
4. Those Nifty Norwegians Have Also Designed a Nifty Umbrella for Torrential Downpours

STYLE BUZZ: Dressing in drab prisoners’ garb (inspired by and produced by) is your ticket into Berlin’s fashionable in-crowd. We always knew jumpsuits were hot. These clothes have a utilitarian quality - miniskirts have hidden built-in drug-smuggling pockets!

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1. Convict Chic: the Latest Trend in Berlin Fashion
2. Prison Wear Store Opens in Berlin
3. Entrepreneurial Berlin Prisoners Are Encouraged to “Make It Work”
4. Prison is cool again: And it’s not Lindsay’s fault this time
5. Clothes Produced, Designed and Inspired by Prisoners Now Hip in Berlin
6. Victoria Beckham Opts for Prison Chic at Fashion Shows
7. The Wax Figure of Lindsay Lohan Decked Out in Black and White Stripes
8. In Russia, Clothing Factory Doubles as a Maximum Security Jail
9. Berlin Prisoners Open Online Fashion Boutique

STYLE BUZZ: Created by bodybuilders in the ’80s and having reached a sales peak of $30 million, the stretchy, zebra-print pants are groomed for a comeback. Now you’ll have the perfect pants to compliment your upside-down pear shaped figure.

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1. The Original Zubaz Pants: Style, Attitude and Comfort (Buy Now!)
2. Zubaz Pants Are Back In All Their Zebra Striped Glory
3. Everything You Ever Need To Know About Zubaz
4. First the Unitard, Now This?
5. Video: Zubaz Is Serious News
6. You Will Look Terrible in Zubaz

STYLE BUZZ: The male model of today is “an urchin, a wraith or an underfed runt.” And those are the ones getting work . The New York Times reports on this disturbing trend.

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1. Thin Dudes Are In, People
2. Men Jump on the Thin Bandwagon
3. Who Says This is an Attractive Look?
4. One Skinny-Ass Model
5. Male Anorexia, And Where You Can Get Help

STYLE BUZZ: Who says skirts on men can’t be practical? Nice to see that kilts have extended beyond the traditional plaid, embracing khaki, camo and even denim designs. It’s not too early to start ordering to make sure you get yours in time for the Spring 2008 renaissance faire season.

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The Best Links:

1. It Ain’t No Skirt, Ye Precious Thing!
2. Utilikilt Has A Pretty Funny License Agreement
3. Mockumercials - Win $2500 in Utilikilts For Your Best Homemade Kilt Ad
4. These Here Utilikilts Are American-Made
5. Freedom from the Tyranny of Trousers!
6. Flickr Group For Utilikilt Fans

CULTURE BUZZ: The most fashionable, sexy cult leaders are all wearing black turtlenecks this season. Nothing builds the loyalty of followers like turtlenecks.

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1. Cult Leader Steve Jobs On Official Apple-Cult Website
2. Turtleneck Wearing Tom Cruise Promoting His Cult (video)
3. The Leader of “WGA” Actors’ Cult Wears Black Turtleneck (parody video)
4. Young Cult Leader Mark Zuckerberg Would Be Even More Powerful if He Zipped Up This Fleece Top to Form a Turtleneck
5. Jerry Yang Tries to Become Cult Leader by Wearing Turtleneck, Fails

STYLE BUZZ: The recent Dress Up Against AIDS fashion show featured couture condom creations from over 30 designers. We don’t expect anyone to wear a dress made out of condoms or anything, but it’s the statement that counts.

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The Best Links:

1. Condoms Go Haute Couture
2. Students Create Outfits Made out of Condoms to Promote Aids Awareness
3. H&M Launches Designers against AIDS, Collection to Be In Stores by February 2008
4. A Multi-Colored Condom Gown for Safe Sex Cinderellas
5. Photos from the Condom Fashion Show
6. The Exhibition Is Running until March 11 at UCLA’s Fowler Museum

STYLE BUZZ: The Japanese “injured doll” fashion fetish. Add another style to the list. This particular otaku variant involves women donning gauze and eye patches to look as though they’ve been badly hurt.

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1. Ouch: Faking It To Make It
2. Tokyo’s Recent Fetish-fashion
3. Latest Akihabara Geek Fetish? One-eyed Virginal Maid Mummies
4. Kegadoru: Injured Idol Fetish
5. Fake Injury Cosplay Popular Among Geek Girls

STYLE BUZZ: Ashley Olsen, Kate Bosworth, and Lindsay Lohan are all dressing like lumberjacks this fall. Oversized plaid shirts will be coming to an Old Navy near you! Which spares you the trouble of sifting through the men’s racks at thrift stores for hours. (Thanks for the tip !)

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The Best Links:

1. WhoWhatWearDaily’s Spread on Plaid Outerwear
2. Bai Ling certainly lumbers well.
3. “Plaid Couture” at the Fall 2007 New York Fashion Week shows.
4. Fasshonaburu’s article on plaid / tartan for Fall 2007
5. Ashley Olsen, Queen of Plaid
6. Lindsay Lohan Wearing an Oversized Lumberjack Plaid Cardigan…as a Dress?
7. How to Dress like a Lumberjack
8. “It’s also for wrestlers, rock stars, gangsters, farmers, cold people and me”
9. Delia’s Is Selling a Buffalo Plaid Bag
10. Discussion: Will you be wearing buffalo plaid this fall?

STYLE BUZZ: We wonder aloud, will the Chanel ankle wallet translate into an everyday fashion accessory? Karl Lagerfeld’s take on the SCRAM anklet shows us that alcoholism can be cute and fun!

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1. Ankle purses appear to be some sort of tribute to the SCRAM anklet
2. Chanel Inspired by Criminally-Minded Celeb Clients
3. If Chanel says it’s chic, it must be
4. Poll: Would You Wear a Chanel Ankle Wallet? (95% say no)
5. Karl inspired by young Hollywood train wrecks for Chanel Spring/Summer 2008
6. Chanel’s Ankle Monitering Accessories Makes Rehab a lot Cuter
7. Dubbed “The Rehab Bag”
8. I’d rather wear these instead of Shants

STYLE BUZZ: Kids make the best mullet models. No, it doesn’t have anything to do with the Mullet Strategy , just unfortunate parenting. We’re expecting the arrival of LolMullets soon.

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The Best Links:

1. Gallery Of Child Mullets
2. Britney Spears’ Kids Have Mullets
3. “We got started early.”
4. A Boy, His Balloon & His Mullet
5. Kindergarten Mullet
6. ‘It definitely raises ethical issues.”
7. Random Kid Mullet

STYLE BUZZ: The latest in luxury pet products and fashion will be showcased this weekend at NYC’s Pet Fashion Week. We’re raising hell if we see another emaciated size 0 chihuahua strutting down these runways. (Thanks for the tip !)

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The Best Links:

1. Pet Craze Sweeps Affluent Society
2. Luxury Pet Goods are a $41 Billion Industry
3. Watch Barney Frank Avoid Outing Larry Craig!
4. Pet Fashion Week In New York
5. Cute Dogs Take Over Chelsea
6. ELLE picks the very best items for your pampered pooch.
7. There She Is, Your Overdressed Pet
8. Canine Fashion Industry Brings you the $200,000 Dog Collar
9. A Convention of sorts for Luxury Pet Vendors
10. Fashion Trends for Pets?
11. Dog Wigs - Featured on BuzzFeed
12. Festivities include a trade show, a runway show, symposiums, an art show, and of course PARTIES
13. A Preview of Some of the Cute Outfits You’ll Be Seeing

STYLE BUZZ: In London, women are wearing shoes so tall and high-waisted jeans so tight, they can barely walk. You’re not a true fashionista unless you’ve got permanent scarring from the waistband of your Cheap Mondays. (Thanks for the tip !)

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1. What’s the Craziest Thing You’ve Ever Done for Fashion?
2. Posh Dresses Up for Mundane Activities Like Shopping and Meeting with Real Estate Agents
3. Can You Relate: Hobbled by Hussein Chalayan, Burdened by Balenciaga
4. Olsen Twin Wears Footbinding Shoes
5. A Guy Discusses the Pains of Breaking In Raw Denim Jeans

STYLE BUZZ: New York Times profiles a business venture involving novelty briefs . Zany briefs - not just for gay guys anymore! There’s nothing worse than bunchy-boxer-butt on a guy wearing skinny jeans. (Note: thongs on guys are still pretty gay, though.)

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1. Not Gay, Just Going Underwear Shopping at American Apparel
2. Booty-Hugging Briefs “Not a Gay Thing”
3. “‘Styles’ Serves Up A Big Bowl Of Spotted Dick”
4. Big Chain Stores Now Creating Brightly Colored Boxer Briefs
5. The Choices in Men’s Underwear Stink
6. Man Goes Underwear Shopping, Discovers New Concepts in Briefdom
7. Get Some Zany Briefs at 10 Percent (E-Commerce)

CULTURE BUZZ: Models for Christ brings good-looking believers together to talk about the perils of the industry. Stumbling on the catwalk makes baby Jesus cry. Other things you can do in Christ’s name: crank calling, morning radio.

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The Best Links:

1. ‘Models For Christ’: The Name Alone Is Just So Damn Inspiring - Jezebel
2. Bringing Jesus to Fashion
3. Christian Fashion, WTF?
4. These Models Bring the Hotness
5. Models Pray to Baby Jesus to Keep Them Skinny

STYLE BUZZ: When will the jumpsuit stop being funny and start being fashionable? I’ve been wanting to do this trend forever, but it wasn’t until hearing Kanye is getting sued by Evil Knievel for wearing one that I knew jumpsuits had hit the mainstream. To the fashion gods, can onesies be the new Juicy velour tracksuit?

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1. Bulgarian Winter Fashion - AMAZING NINJA SUITS!
2. Runways Predict Shorty Jumpsuits to Be Big for Spring
3. Tokyo Street Fashion: “My top and pants are connected…It’s like a jumpsuit!”
4. Naomi Brings Back the Jumpsuit
5. Maggie Gyllenhaal Fugs it up in a Gray Jumpsuit
6. Channeling Disco Era in My First Jumpsuit
7. People in Jumpsuits at Some Nike Party (Scroll Down)
8. Kanye’s Vulgar Stunts in White Jumpsuit Makes Knievel Look Bad
9. Super-Cute Jumpsuits from Up-And-Coming Designer Fremont