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And my Czech sensor goes off again…/ A muj cesky senzor se opet hlasi…

Don’t tell me the pictures I have recently taken  all around me  don’t prove the under-title of this blog: “Small Bohemian Steps to World Domination” :) :) :)

CZ: Nerikejte mi, ze tyto fotky nejsou dukazem podtitulu tohoto blogu: “Small Bohemian Steps to World Domination” :) :) :)

1. The word “VODA” means “WATER” in Czech.

2. The word “Ahoy” is pretty much a misspelled Czech word “Ahoj” which means “HI”. And the same thing goes for the word “Matey”! Substitute ‘y’ for ‘j’ and you will get a Czech name “Matej”. Am I missing some Czech cartoon that’s going around and the main hero Matej is being printed on American t-shirts?!
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New designs of Tanja’s Czech crystal Jewelery / Nove pridavky do Taniny kolekce sperku z ceskeho skla

 

Christmas will be here soon and Czechmate Diary is now selling authentic and affordable Czech crystal jewelery! I make it myself as it is one of my (many) favorite hobbies in life. I put a special Czech touch into all of my hand crafted jewelry items and I hope you enjoy wearing them as much as I enjoy designing and making them.

Did you know that the Bohemian crystal  has been around ever since the 13th century? Its history starts with the abundant natural resources found in the rural Czech countryside. The local glass workers discovered potash combined with chalk created a clear colorless glass that was more stable than glass from Italy. It was at that time when the term Bohemian crystal emerged for the first time in history to distinguish its qualities from the glass coming from other places. As opposed to usual perception this glass was non-lead which meant that it could be cut with a wheel. Bohemian crystal became famous for its excellent cut and engraving and it is adored and worked with all over the world including my home.

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Tagged as: czech jewelery, fashion, my art

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Shoes united / Sjednocene boty

What shoe size are you? The American-size number 8? Or the European number 37? The numbers could not get more confusing. But I have got a good news! The biggest shoe-makers in the world are wanting to unite the sizing system. The measuring units should be similar to the metric system, which will include also the biomechanical proportions of the foot. [click to continue…]

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You got to see this…/ Na tohle se musite podivat…

weird haircombThis doesn’t have anything to do with anything Czech or Slovak whatsoever but you just have to see these ‘fashion’ pictures. I hope you get a good belly laugh out of it like I did; who knows, maybe you will get some good Halloween ideas out of it!

Click here to see more fashion accessory pictures.

PS: This is for real, the designer is not joking.

CZ: Nasledujici obrazky opravdu  nemaji nic co k docineni s ceskou nebo slovenskou kulturou, ale thole proste musite videt: posledni vykriky mody!!! Kdo vi, mozna ze z toho dostanete nejake napady na Helloweenovsky kostym!

Vice modni inspirace muzete najit zde (klinete zde).

PS: Jo a jen tak pro jistotu, tento navrhar to mysli naprosto vazne.

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Commie shoes are back! / Komunisticke botasky jsou zpatky!!

retro botasky image/www.lidovky.cz imageRemember Botasky, the boring communist shoes that everyone would wear? They are back and they are popular!!! But don’t worry, they did go through quite the make-over, created by 2 young Czech art students, Jan Kloss and Jakub Koros. ‘Our school task was to make  new sport shoes so we decided to make a new shoes from the old ones’.

The new style Botas shoes have a wider toe and come in 13 different designs from which one design is kept ‘sentimentally’ white. Each pair costs 1,600 Czech crowns (about $80!!) and tend to get sold out pretty quickly :o ) [click to continue…]

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Czechoslovak invetiveness never ceases to amaze: Wedding gown made out of a parachute! / Zlate rucicky cechoslovaku nikdy nezklamou: svatebni saty usite z padaku!

Lilly Friedman and her husband at their weddingThis amazing story is about Lilly Friedman, a woman who was raised in a former Czechoslovakia and who also survived Auschwitz, a forced labor camp, a death march and  Bergen Belsen concentration camp (also a famous Czech painter and writer Josef Capek died here). Her unfortunate life experiences did not break her spirit, however, having managed to have a special wedding during those hard times, wearing a very special gown. It really is amazing that some people nowadays have the audacity to say that Holocaust did not happen…how would they justify the following story, then?

CZ: Toto je neuveritelny pribeh Lilly Friedmanove, rodacky z ceskoslovenske Zarice, ktera nejen ze prezila Auschwitz, concentracni tabor v Bergen Belsen (kde mimochodem umrel take Josef Capek), ale take hruzny pochod smrti. Tezky osud ji ale nezlomil po strance dusevni, prave naopak. Dokazala totiz usporadat nejen ze mimoradnou svatbu, ale take nosila mimoradne svatebni saty. Je opravdu nevidane, ze jsou na svete lide, kteri veri tomu, ze Holokaust je pouhy mytus.

‘LILLY FRIEDMAN doesn’t remember the last name of the woman who designed and sewed the wedding gown she wore when she walked down the aisle over 60 years ago. But the grandmother of seven does recall that when she first told her fiancé Ludwig that she had always dreamed of being married in a white gown he realized he had his work cut out for him.

For the tall, lanky 21-year-old who had survived hunger, disease and torture this was a different kind of challenge. How was he ever going to find such a dress in the Bergen Belsen Displaced Person’s camp where they felt grateful for the clothes on their backs? [click to continue…]

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I did it! / Neco jsem provedla…

jeans with a hole google imageI may be officially an Americanized woman now! Why? A couple of days ago I found myself ‘guilty’ while buying a pair of jeans that had a manufactured hole in them! How could I do such thing?? What would my poor grandmother say to that?? I can just see her astonished look: “What? You actually paid money for a pair of pants that look like you fished them out of a trash can?”

Yes, I admit it, I got brainwashed by the worldly fashion trends. The thing is that the ‘trashcan’ look is in style nowadays. Just list through any of the People magazines and you will find out the dirtier and more unkept someone looks the cooler marks he/she gets from the press! Say your good byes to anything that looks half-new because if you don’t, you will look like a dork. Wait a minute. Couldn’t we be more useful to the world and buy these filthy looking things off of some Third World county instead of having them made artificially in some factory in China? [click to continue…]

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Pavel Ivancic, the Czech Designer of the Year, talks about the Czech fashion / Navrhar roku Pavel Ivancic mluvi o ceske mode

If you saw Pavel Ivancic walking in the streets of Prague you would see a normal, nice looking guy. But a little would you know, that he is carefully evaluating your current outfit and probably thinking that you had no style at all. Who is this clean-cut looking guy? Pavel has been actually voted the Czech fashion designer of 2007. He studied in London, worked in Paris, met the most prestigious designers in the world and now he has its own fashion brand called “Muset”. Radio Prague did an interview with him and  I was surprised to find out that Pavel things there is no fashion business in the Czech Republic. Supposedly there is not a single store that would sell Czech designer stuff! [click to continue…]

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And I want to dress up for what?? / A proc ze se mam nacancat??

Everyone knows that clothing in the US is VERY cheap. The mega-stores like Target, Marshall’s Wallmarts and Kohl’s offer these things for almost nothing (you do have to be a bargain shopper though). For a mere $20 one can buy a whole outfit! T-shirts for $5, pants for $10 and for the leftover money you can get a nice earrings/necklace set – that’s how it must be in heaven (actually, I don’t think they would charge you in heaven…). Many times I find myself sending stuff home or to my friends since the items are about 3 times less expensive then if you bought them in Europe.
Now that I made this point clear, it only makes sense that most American women  go crazy, become shopoholics and later end up attending the SA meetings (Shopoholic Anonymous). One thing I really don’t get though: what do they need all the clothes for?? Now, correct me if I am wrong but 99% of these women end up wearing matching sweatpant outfits and a pair of sneakers! Of course, they don’t want to look completely vagabondish, so they try to cover it up by buying those “fancy” sweats made out of velvet, with a fancy silver sign saying “I am hot”. There are two explanations to this fashion catastrophe: One being that most of these suburban women just don’t have places to dress up for. I mean soccer fields and grocery stores are not going to do it. Two, since the norm of what to wear has dropped down to pretty much a freezing point, it takes a lot of energy to fight this sickening norm off all the time. [click to continue…]

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Dominik Hasek is now the DOMINATOR / Dominik Hasek je ted DOMINATOREM


Do you know what is Dominik Hasek, the just-retired NHL star, up to these days? Vite, cim ted travi volny cas nase hokejova hvezda, Dominik Hasek?

Here is a quiz for you:
A/ Is he couching the children’s hockey in Czech?
B/ Did he get into professional fishing?
C/ Did he get into fashion business?
D/ Is he planning a journey to Tibet to find his eternal peace? [click to continue…]

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