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The folks at UGG Australia have turned the once ugly winter boot into a fashion statement worn by celebrities across the globe. But while Hollywood winters don't really require a heavy-duty winter boot, those of use who are not blessed with a perpetually temperate climate are lucky to have footwear that is warm, comfortable and stylish; especially in the most brutally cold weather of the winter.

UGG's line of authentic sheepskin shoes keep toes cozy because the wool fibers act as an insulator. The sheepskin also breathes, allowing heat and moisture to be wicked away. Regardless of how frigid or hot it is outside, your feet stay at body temperature, whether it is -30F or 80F. The removable insole lining of thick, natural fleece also molds to your foot shape for added comfort.

On the style front, UGG makes boots, shoes and slippers for men, women and children, so the whole family can stay fashionably warm whether they are out in the elements or just relaxing at home.

Women's Uggs

UGG's Women's line has an extensive variety of styles that can stand up to anything Old Man Winter throws out there. Two of their most popular styles are the Classic Tall and Short boots. Similar in style, the main difference between these two boots is the height of the shaft. The Tall has an 11 inch shaft height while the Short is 8 inches. Both are made of Twin-faced Grade A Sheepskin and are lined in plush fleece. These 2 Classic styles also have flexible, lightweight molded EVA outsoles. Available colors on both include Black, Chocolate, Chestnut, Sand, Paisley, Gray, Metallic Gold, Terracotta, Eggplant and Magenta Sheepskin. The Classic Tall is also available in Baroque Black, Baroque Sand, Marbled Nickel, Bomber Jacket Leather, Marbled Copper, Mulberry Sheepskin.

Another of UGG's iconic women's designs is their Classic Cardy boot: a heathered merino wool boot that resembles your softest, most comfortable sweater. This slouchy style has three wooden buttons with the UGG logo and can be worn up, scrunched down or cuffed over. The shaft height reaches 14.5 inches when uncuffed.  The Classic Cardy has a sheepskin covered foam insole and a flexible molded EVA outsole. Available colors include Gray, Indigo, Black, Fig, Moss, and Sorbet

For women looking for an UGG boot that is different from their Classic style, the Knightsbridge has a more fashion-forward design without sacrificing the functionality and comfort of their traditional boots. The Knightsbridge has a slimmer, more contoured profile than the Classic designs and has a multi-colored zipper that runs along the back of the boot. The shaft on this boot reaches 12 inches. It is made of fully-lined sheepskin and has an EVA sole for cushion and comfort. The Knightsbridge comes in Black or Shadow Gray.

After a hard day facing the elements, a nice, cozy slipper is just what the doctor ordered for an evening of relaxation. And if you thought UGG's boots were comfortable, just wait until you slip on their slippers. The Coquette and the Bipster are two different styles that both deliver in terms of warmth, comfort and functionality. The Coquette is a clog-like slip-on made of twin-faced sheepskin. It has a moisture-wicking sheepskin sockliner and molded EVA outsoles for traction and durability. The Coquette is available in Black, Chestnut, Sand and Felt.

For a more enclosed slipper, the suede Bipster slips on like a bootie and has an exposed fleece cuff at the ankle. The Bipster also has a fully-lined sheepskin sockliner and lightweight rubber bottom. It is available in Black and Chestnut.

Men's and Children's Styles

Though UGG's Men's and Children's lines do not feature as many different styles as their Women's line; the Classic UGG is available for both. Men have the Classic Short UGG boot and tykes have the Kid's Classic Tall boot. The men's and kids versions of the Classic are made of Twin-faced sheepskin and have the same features as the Women's style.  The shaft height on Men's Classic short is 8.5 inches. It is available in chestnut.  The children's Classic has an approximate shaft height of 6 inches and is available for Toddlers sizes 7-12 and Youth sizes 13-16. Available kids' colors include Chestnut, Black, Sand, Chocolate Brown and Metallic Copper.

UGG also makes slippers for men. Two styles worth checking out are the Tasman and the Ascot. The Tasman slip-on is made of suede with a plush sheepskin lining and Tasman detailing on the cuff. Built on the Classic outsole design, this slipper can also be used as a shoe or clog. It is available in Chestnut Suede.

If a clog-like slipper is a little too earthy-crunchy for your tastes, the Ascot is a more enclosed option. Available in Chestnut Suede, Black or China Tea Leather, this moccasin-like slipper can also be worn as a shoe. Lined in plush sheepskin, the Ascot is equally cozy in the house as it is when you are dashing out to grab the morning paper.

Whether you are heading out to the mountains for some winter sports, running errands in frigid February or looking to relax in front of the fire after a long winter's day, UGG has the boots or slippers that can help you stay cozy regardless of the temperature. So kiss those old ugly snow boots goodbye and step out in style this winter with UGG: a boot so fashionable it doesn't even have to be winter to wear them.

Roseann Losito is a freelance writer who writes about a variety of topics and brands such as Ugg Boots.

Levi Strauss & Co

Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&CO) is a privately held clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim jeans. It was founded in 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Bavaria, Germany to San Francisco, California to open a west coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business. Although the company began producing denim overalls in the 1870s, modern jeans were not produced until the 1920s. The company briefly experimented (in the 1970s) with employee ownership and a public stock listing, but remains owned and controlled by descendants and relatives of Levi Strauss' four nephews.

<a href="http://www.himfr.com/buy-lingerie_stocking/">lingerie stocking</a>Levi Strauss & Co. is a worldwide corporation organized into three geographic divisions: Levi Strauss, North Americas (LSNA), based in the San Francisco headquarters; Levi Strauss Europe (LSE), based in Brussels; and Asia Pacific Division (APD), based in Singapore.The company employs a staff of approximately 10,500 people worldwide, and owns and develops a few brands. Levi's, the main brand, was founded in 1873 in San Francisco, specializing in riveted denim jeans and different lines of casual and street fashion.

From the early 1960s through the mid 1970s, Levi Strauss experienced explosive growth in its business as the more casual look of the 60s and 70s ushered in the "blue jeans craze" and served as a catalyst for the brand. Levi's, under the leadership of Jay Walter Haas Sr., Peter Haas Sr., Paul Glasco and George P. Simpkins Sr., expanded the firm's clothing line by adding new fashions and models, including stoned washed jeans through the acquisition of Great Western Garment Co.,(GWG), a Canadian clothing manufacturer, acquired by Levi's. GWG was responsible for the introduction of the modern "stone washing" technique, still in use by Levi Strauss.

Mr. Simpkins is credited with the company's record paced expansion of its manufacturing capacity from fewer than 16 plants to more than 63 plants nationwide from 1964 through 1974. Perhaps most impressive, however, was that Levi's' expansion under Simpkins was accomplished without a single unionized employee as a result of Levi's' and the Hass families' strong stance on human rights and Simpkins' use of "pay for performance" manufacturing at the sewing machine operator level up. As a result, Levi's' plants were perhaps the highest performing, best organized and cleanest textile facilities of their time. Levi's even piped in massive amounts of air conditioning into its press plants, which were known in the industry to be notoriously hot, for the comfort of Levi's workers.

2004 saw a sharp decline of GWG in the face of global outsourcing, so the company was closed and the Edmonton manufacturing plant shut down.[2] Dockers was launched in 1986. Sold largely through department store chains, helped the company grow through the mid-1990s, as denim sales began to fade. Levi Strauss attempted to sell the brand in 2004 to relieve part of the company's $2 billion outstanding debt.

Launched in 2003, Levi Strauss Signature features jeanswear and casualwear.[5] In November 2007, Levi's released a mobile phone in co-operation with ModeLabs. Many of the phone's cosmetic attributes are customisable at the point of purchase.

Jacob Davis was a tailor who frequently purchased bolts of cloth made from hemp from Levi Strauss & Co.'s wholesale house. After one of Davis' customers kept purchasing cloth to reinforce torn pants, he had an idea to use copper rivets to reinforce the points of strain, such as on the pocket corners and at the base of the button fly. Davis did not have the required money to purchase a patent, so he wrote to Levi suggesting that they both go into business together. After Levi accepted Jacob's offer, on May 20, 1873, the two men received patent #139,121 from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patented rivet was later incorporated into the company's jean design and advertisements. Contrary to an advertising campaign suggesting that Levi Strauss sold his first jeans to gold miners during the California Gold Rush (which peaked in 1849), the manufacturing of denim overalls only began in the 1870s.

Modern jeans began to appear in the 1920s. In the 1950s and 1960s, Levi's jeans became popular among a wide range of youth subcultures, including greasers, mods, rockers, hippies and skinheads. Levi's popular shrink-to-fit 501s were sold in a unique sizing arrangement; the indicated size was related to the size of the jeans prior to shrinking, and the shrinkage was substantial. The company still produces these unshrunk, uniquely sized jeans, and they still sell very well.

By the 1990s, the brand was facing competition from other brands and cheaper products from overseas, and began accelerating the pace of its US factory closures and its use of offshore subcontracting agreements. In 1991, Levi Strauss faced a scandal involving six subsidiary factories on the Northern Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth, where some 3% of Levi's jeans sold annually with the Made in the USA label were shown to have been made by Chinese laborers under what the United States Department of Labor called "slavelike" conditions.

Cited for sub-minimal wages, seven-day work weeks with 12-hour shifts, poor living conditions and other indignities, Tan Holdings Corporation, Levi Strauss' Marianas subcontractor, paid what were then the largest fines in US labor history, distributing more than $9 million in restitution to some 1,200 employees.Levi Strauss claimed no knowledge of the offenses, then severed ties to the Tan family and instituted labor reforms and inspection practices in its offshore facilities.

The activist group Fuerza Unida (United Force) was formed following the January 1990 closure of a plant in San Antonio, Texas, in which 1,150 seamstresses (primarily Latina) some of whom had worked for Levi Strauss for decades saw their jobs exported to Costa Rica. During the mid and late 1990s, Fuerza Unida picketed the Levi Strauss headquarters in San Francisco and staged hunger strikes and sit-ins in protest of the company's labor policies.

The company took on multi-billion dollar debt in February 1996 to help finance a series of leveraged stock buyouts among family members. Shares in Levi Strauss stock are not publicly traded; the firm is today owned almost entirely by indirect descendants and relatives of Levi Strauss, whose four nephews inherited the San Francisco dry goods firm after their uncle's death in 1902.[13] Levi's bonds are traded publicly, as are shares of the company's Japan affiliate, Levi Strauss Japan K.K.

In June 1996, the company offered to pay its workers an unusual dividend of up to $750 million in six years' time, having halted an employee stock plan at the time of the internal family buyout. However, the company failed to make cash flow targets, and no worker dividends were paid.[14] In 2002, Levi Strauss began a close business collaboration with Wal-Mart, producing a special line of "Signature" jeans and other clothes for exclusive sale in Wal-Mart stores until 2006.[15] Levi Strauss Signature jeans can now be purchased at several stores in the US, Canada and Japan.

The company is now Wal-Mart's largest worldwide strategic partner, conforming to Wal-Mart's business and labor practices.Levi Strauss & Co. closed 58 US manufacturing plants between 1981 and 1990, sending 25% of its sewing operations overseas. Levi's accelerated US plant closings through the 1990s, closing its last US domestic plant (in San Antonio, Texas) in January 2004.

According to the New York Times, Levi Strauss leads the apparel industry in trademark infringement cases, filing nearly 100 lawsuits against competitors since 2001. Most cases center on the alleged imitation of Levi's back pocket double arc stitching pattern (U.S. trademark #1,139,254]). Levi's has sued Guess?, Esprit Holdings, Zegna, Zumiez and Lucky Brand Jeans, among other companies.

By 2007, Levi Strauss was again said to be profitable after declining sales in nine of the previous ten years. Its total annual sales, of just over $4 billion, were $3 billion less than during its peak performance in the mid 1990s.After more than two decades of family ownership, rumors of a possible public stock offering were floated in the media in July 2007.

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