Oh My Clog. Wood is Good.

Popular in the Netherlands for over 700 years. Can easily be hosed off if working in the garden, and allowed to air dry. When syncopated with foot taps, they form a special kind of dancing.

The clog has a great deal of versatility as a form of footwear, but this summer it has become more than a tourist’s souvenir. No longer fashion roadkill, the clog will have you hop, skipping and toe tapping your way onto the catwalk.

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Cool Your Jets

Some people are naturally equipped to deal with heat, others do not have this God-given facility. I am one of the latter. When it gets hot, I am perpetually melting. The only place where I become human once more is beneath a cold shower or in a lovingly air-conditioned building. When humidity strikes, and neither of these two options are available I am doomed.

The only possible solution to this scenario is to combat heat with devilishly nice clothes. Breezy lightwear is essential for the melting months, and though the oppressive warmth might make you feel like you need to look like a troll, the opposite is true.

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Party Tees

As Justice have perfectly demonstrated in their video for DANCE, everyone needs at least one or two interchangeable party tees.

There are few prerequisites for this genre of t-shirt, but for an unforgettable party entrance make colour, graphics and relativity your top priorities.

Chunk Clothing could arguably be the specialists in party wear. Their New York Sounds tee in cobalt blue is inspired by the New York subway map re-imagined into a pair of beat transporting headphones, to take you on the ultimate journey. Whatever subway sounds are like, it makes me want to hear them.

The subway never sounded so good

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Cambridge Alumni Merchandise Store

Cambridge Alumni Store Screen Grab

Indigo have built and launched a dedicated official merchandise store for alumni of Cambridge University at camalumni.co.uk. Products include earthenware mugs, a Case Logic netbook skin, a Slazenger gym bag, a Balmain umbrella and a beautiful 3-piece recycled leather travel set in Cambridge Blue. Indigo will be adding to the range throughout the year and has handled all aspects of the project including building the website, making advertising collateral and producing, storing and shipping the merchandise.

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USA World Cup T-Shirt

USA Soccer World Cup T Shirt

If you are looking for cool world cup t-shirts, look no further than Didi. They have t-shirts for most of the major teams. My particular favourite is this USA one, listing all top players as well as the hapless England goal keeper, Robert Green, who fumbled the ball allowing USA to draw 1-1 earlier in the month.

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Introducing……the best sunglasses in the world?

What is it about the Ray-Ban that makes everyone from the Men in Black to Sarah Jessica Parker slide a pair up their celebrified noses? And aside from the celebridoodles, a pair of Ray-Bans have become indispensable to the non-famous. Take a stroll around your nearest city and you’ll outcount your fingers by the number of Ray-Banners you see protecting the population from the sun’s glare.

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Oliver Hibert at LTD Tee

LTD Tee publishes a new t-shirt design once a week. After a week you can’t get your hands on it again!  You can use promo code “indigoclothing” to get 10% off too. This week their design is supplied by Oliver Hibert who LTD Tee interviewed. Re-published here to read at your leisure:

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Impressions from my first 3 weeks

Julia Wilk - Indigo Clothing Intern - Summer 2010

“Mama, mit meinem Praktikumsplatz haette es mich nicht besser treffen koennen!”

That is what I told my mother right after my very first week at Indigo as a new intern here. My name is Julia Wilk, I am from Germany, and it means something like, “There would have been no better place for a work experience.” I am enjoying my work experience at Indigo Clothing – I really am!

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Big Huge Bags. For all your stuff.

Mary Poppins was the ancient forefather of the practical bag. From her flowery zip-up she could produce anything, lamp stands, kitchen sinks, bottles of vino, probably people. Though if you’ve seen this version of Mary Poppins, perhaps you’d be more frightened of what she might bring out of her bag than before. True, the big bag can be dangerous. I always find that with a small bag I have the neceessities, I have a more wholesome, feng-shui approach to life’s essentials. Purse? – sure, keys? – why of course, phone? – yup, spare socks? – no, no, not really needed. When the big bag comes out however, the shoulder clutter comes too. The spare socks are in, along with a full size wall calendar: why not? Instead of a mobile I’d rather take the yellow pages and some coins for a pay-phone, and then comes the ‘second lining’, the most detrimental component of bag clutter. A swamp of cinema tickets, rail tickets, receipts, free breath mints, hair pins, lip balms, informational leaflets, flyers, copper coins. The list never ends. I have to keep my bags on the small side to ensure that my life remains in focus, but with a summer array of lovely bags for the buying, bigger is always better.

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