Summer Tones

It's tough to decide what to wear during the hot summer months. Well, women have a wider range of summer apparel to choose from.Oobe Earth Gear is a new range of casual wear for this season, offering everything from campus wear to club wear and anything in between. The Oobe range comprises mini skirts, knee length skirts, shorts, cargo pants, slip dresses, crop tops and jackets with interesting details like kangaroo pockets and drawstrings. Designed for young women, it is trendy and in a vast palette of colours from earthy beige, bark and olive to vibrant red, vermilion and mango. Of course there are also summery pastels like pink, mint, lilac and icy blue. They come in cool summery fabrics like soft twills, canvas, viscose, cotton lycra, piques and polyviscose.

 

To complement its Earth Gear, Oobe has a line of accessories comprising body bags, hip bags, baseball caps and flop hats. In beige, grey, black, navy these are are priced between Rs 150 to Rs 215. Available in premium retail outlets all across the country, the casual wear is priced between Rs 275 to Rs 700.

Fruity flavours

Nature provides the best _ be it food or fabrics. So why not bottled fruits in the guise of shampoos. McBride, UK has introduced its latest range of hair fruits shampoos and conditioners through the house of Indo Cosmesi. The acids in the fruits smoothen the hair, while adding essential oils and delaying the aging process.

Attractively packaged in handy plastic containers, the shampoos come in shades of forests, orchards and gardens. The floral and fruity tones help in gentle cleansing, moisturising and combatting common hair problems.

The shampoos come in three variants of whitegrape and jasmine, peach and sunflower and apple and honeysuckle, all priced at Rs 150. The conditioner is priced at Rs 150 and suits all hair types.

Keeping time

There is no dearth of quality imported watches in the country, but exceptional jewellery timepieces are still hard to come by. The First Lady from Delaneau is a beautiful accessory for every well planned wardrobe. It has different versions for different occasions and reflects superb Swiss craftsmanship. The sporty model is called First, which should fit in well for country outings, shopping sprees or simply lounging around. The Regular model on the other hand has discreet diamonds to set off all those designer clothes.

The dial is either pave diamonds, plain or grooved white mother of pearl or black onyx, while the strap clips are set with eight diamonds. A watch in 18 carat yellow gold on crocodile leather strap can set you back by at least

Rs 1,74,000 plus sales tax. Available at select outlets, the brand has been brought into India by Finex Distribution.