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Shopping for Pashmina in Kathmandu?
We've got a new article on Wandering Educators, the award-winning travel blog. If the article is no longer on the front page, you can find it archived here.
It's Honeysuckle!
Pantone's Color-of-the-Year for 2011 is Honeysuckle! Honeysuckle? What's that?> According to Wikipedia, there are about 180 species of honeysuckle found in North America, Europe and Asia. They come in a variety of colors, most commonly white or yellow, and they are big favorites of hummingbirds. However, the species alluded to in the Pantone color name is probably Lonicera sempervirens, or Coral Honeysuckle, a native of eastern North America. Fashion mavens say that this reddish-pink lights a fire to your senses and revs you up... a real strong color, but it's wearable for lots of skin types. It also works for a variety of ages and styles, from contemporary to upscale, casual to formal, in all seasons. It's a positive, strong, affirmative color, fine on its own or against white, and versatile as a complement to blues, greens and oranges. |
New How-to-Wear Link
One of our many many competitors, Very Pashmina, has a new YouTube how-to-wear-pashmina video clip. See it HERE.
Sherpa knife fight... yak nearly gets it in the neck.
Seth has two new articles on WanderingEducators.com. Return to Rolwaling recounts the ten days of a five-week trek he undertook this past spring. Here's the first paragraph:
This spring I returned to Rolwaling Valley for the first time since 2003. I had been working on a study-abroad program with the botany department at Tribhuwan University which would entail field work in Rolwaling as well as in the Khumbu and needed to update myself on the logistics. The notes below are excerpts from my trail log, written as an extended letter to my wife Empar. This part covers the trek from the district capital, Dolakha, up the Tamba Kosi to the junction with the Rolwaling River at Simigaon. Keep in mind that I am 60, haven't trekked for eight years, and, despite running a few half-marathons, am not in great shape. And carrying a 55-pound backpack... so there was quite a bit of soul-searching to expurgate. This isn't pretty. And it sure isn't inspiring.
See the second part of the article on WanderingEducators.com; right now it's on the front page, but it will soon migrate to an internal page: Rolwaling Trek, Part One and Part Deux.
Rock the casbah!
We've posted a new vid clip on our How to Wear Pash page... demonstrates a nifty wrap style for the traditional Muslim pashophile.
Dream Flags over Nepal
If you are a schoolteacher or have children in school, you should read about this inspiring project. Hundreds of schools in dozens of countries are participating, and the response has been enthusiastic.
Read Seth's September article in WanderingEducators.com.
What you missed in Khumjung this spring...
Our Internet sales manager, Seth Sicroff, who happens to be Nepal Editor for the award-winning Wandering Educators travel blog, just posted another article. This one is about the Khumjung School Golden Jubilee, where Sir Edmund Hillary's son presented a medal that was actually invented by Seth and Empar, back in 2003. Look for the article here; or, if it has already rotated off the front page, you can find it here.
 Hillary Medal Ang Rita Sherpa receives congratulatory katas. |
Btw, Seth had another article about his recent trip to Nepal; it was posted on Wandering Educators last month, and you can find it here. Kathmandu: What's not to love? raised the hackles of some Nepal fans. But... we love Nepal too, and we think it's time Kathmandu got serious about some of its problems.
Kathmandu: What's not to love?
Shock-and-Awe Special!
Twice a year Pantone, the Dala'i Lama of color, annoints the top ten trendiest colors. Here's the list for Fall and Winter 2011:
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We've posted some of Pantone's artsy verbiage on our Color page. But Here's the amazing part (our Shock-and-Awe Special): we're offering a collection of ten Petite 70% pashmina/30% silk jacquard shawls, one in each of these ultra-hip colors, for a grand total of $410 (more than 25% off our regular insanely low price) -- plus a single charge of $14.50. And... like our other shawls... these come with complimentary faux-brocade totes, silver-and-stone earrings, and earring purse. OMG! OMG! OMG! I want them!!!
Pret-a-Porter on hold
Due to logistical issues (yes, we're being deliberately vague), the Pret-a-Porter option is currently unavailable. Sorry. We'll let you know if and when there is a change.
New Petite Size Shawl with Jacquard: $55
Last year a Taiwanese department store ordered 600 shawls in a special size, 61 cm x 173 cm (24" x 70", or 2 feet by 5.8 feet), in two jacquard designs; however, they ended up switching their order to the standard "fullsize," leaving us with 300 of the smaller shawls. In order to recoup some of his investment, Tsering has decided to let these pieces go at a specially reduced price -- $55 -- for a limited time. Order now -- this is a really good deal, even for Sunrise.
Planning a wedding? Our Petite is the perfect size for the flower girls in your bridal party.
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Jacquard Designs Currently Available with New Petite Shawl |
New Page!
We've started posting some of the print and online media coverage of Sunrise Pashmina on a new Media Coverage page. Yay us!!!
She LOVES us. She really loves us!
Okay, maybe some of you don't remember Sally Fields' Oscar gusher, and anyway she didn't really say You like me, you really like me!, and that was the Oscars and we're talking about the Golden Globes here, not that there's anything wrong with that, cause really, the foreign critics know movies -- scratch that, films -- better than all those swag-wooed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members, don't they?, but here's the thing, we just got a fan letter from a genuine movie star, Irene Miracle, whose credits include Midnight Express (what?? you haven't seen that? better put it on your Netflix queue right now!) and if that isn't reason enough to order immediately... uhm... well, check it out, anyway.
Helpful new image...
... for comparison of wrap sizes. See
Size and Fabric page
New Prints!
This Tyokeho panoply is just a representative sampling of the color combinations you can select.
Sundari design (above), like the Foliana (below), available in any color combination.
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Fly much?
These days, a lot of airlines make you pay for the blanket and pillow. Which, in a way, is not such a bad thing, since they probably haven't been washing them between uses. Renowned travel guru Peter Greenberg says that the free ones were basically a science experiment at the Centers for Disease Control.
If you’ve seen those blankets, first of all they look like they’re fire hazards, second of all they don’t keep you warm, and third of all, who knows what’s on those blankets? If we ever took the black-light test on those blankets, it would be wild. [from When Nickel-and-Diming Pays Off ] |
So... pack your pash. It's warm, schleppable, and you know what kind of company it's been keeping.
New Page: Special Occasions
We've started a new page as a gateway to the Wedding, Babies, and Gift Certificates pages. It's not linked up to all our menus, but will be soon.
We Love PincStuff!
We've expanded our already bloated collection of how-to-wear links and videos. Of all the online advice as to how to wear pashmina shawls, we think the best is Sheryl Ng's tutorial How to Wear a Pashmina Scarf. Embedding is blocked, so we just put a link to her YouTube clip on our How to Wear Pashmina page. We've also posted her clip How to: Magic Scarf Trick (which, unlike the other clip, actually does feature a scarf). Cute. Real cute. Check out Sheryl's Web site PincStuff.com -- she sells accessories and other stuff.
Happy Birthday, Grandma Carmen!
Liana and Gabriela flew from Ithaca NY to Chatsworth CA to deliver Grandma's birthday present. ("Oh, gosh, now I'll have to get Albert to take me out someplace fancy to wear this!")
Pashmina for the Power-Preppy
According to the Times Online, preppy is back, in multiple varieties, and a signature accessory of the flagship "Power Preppy" look (exemplied by Michelle Obama) is [yay!!!!] the classic pashmina shawl:
POWER PREPPY: The grown-up, glamour end of preppy. It’s preppy with an injection of designer, and you won’t see any logos anywhere. Classic looks include a dark jacket with a white shirt and bootcut denim for smart-casual, and, for casual, sawn-off long white denim shorts, a vest and a pashmina.
Read the full article at Times Online, or on our own blog, Sunrise Pashmina!.
Any low-brows out there?
We just posted a new video clip of Janice Dickinson tongue-lashing and pash-bashing an innocent paparazzo. [Got beads?] See it on our Sunrise Pashmina blog (Off-white and off-color).
Back [just] in Time!
Cameron, Saffron, Donna and Kate
Have any of you heard of the Daily Express ["the World's Greatest Newpaper"]? Me neither.
Anyway, they have an article today (May 14, 2009) trumpeting "THE NEW FASHION STAPLE IN TOWN" -- and it's the pashmina shawl! Yay!!! (right?)
Left: Carla Bruni Sarkozy
Right: Jerry Hall
LAST YEAR, only a Sloane Ranger or a Kashmiri tribesman would have been seen dead in a pashmina.
But the silky soft wraps have become the surprise fashion hit of the summer, after being championed by some of the world's most beautiful women.
Leading the revival is France’s first lady, former supermodel Carla Bruni, who was photographed earlier this week looking stately in a mauve Christian Dior wrap.
Here's the rest of the article. Or, if they've taken it down, you can read it on our Sunrise Pashmina! Blog, along with a lot of other slightly-dated news items.
Jill... we hardly knew ye!
Our random googling has led us to a happy discovery on Huffington Post: Joe Biden loves his wife Jill because she wears pashmina!!!
Huffington Post has a whole article, beginning with this:
Let's take a moment to meet the woman whose husband, Joe Biden, couldn't help but call "drop dead gorgeous" in his speech on Saturday. She certainly is pretty, and her look has lightened up a lot in the last few years (a few blond highlights here, a few cheerful pastels there). But upon closer inspection, there seems to be one accessory that's become her signature style: the pashmina scarf.
Lest Huffington retire the article, we've posted it on our Sunrise Pashmina! blog.
Sunrise Pashmina is located in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Call us at (607) 256-0102. Night or day.
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