BowAndArrowMan

A pair of Oxford bags being worn by the man on the left in the 1930s: Dedicated Follower of Fashion was a 1966 hit song by the British band the Kinks, a much under-rated band in my opinion. Like most people, I don't regard myself as susceptible to fashion. But I suspect I am whether consciously or unconsciously. Recently I made a list of all things fashionable in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s - clearly I have too much time on my hands! The 1970s, 1980s and 1990s were the decades when I was in my teens, twenties and thirties and perhaps most likely to be a fashion victim. What I listed down as fashionable were things that can be perhaps regarded as fads, fashion that didn't endure. I excluded jeans, t-shirts, trainers/sneakers and branded clothing as these fashions still very much endure to this day. I also excluded musical fashions. I then put a tick to those fads that I succumbed to and a cross to those I didn't. On my tick list are platform shoes, Oxford bags (see photo abo...

Forbes is an American business magazine.  Each year it publishes The World's Billionaires , a list ranking the wealth of the world's dollar billionaires.  Forbes has just published this year's list. This year's list shows that here are now more billionaires than ever before with 2,781 in total. The billionaires are richer than ever before; together they're worth $14.2 trillion. Two-thirds of the billionaires are worth far more than last year; only one-quarter are poorer. America, with 813 billionaires worth $5.7 trillion, has the most billionaires in the world, followed by China (473 billionaires) and India (200 billionaires). Below are selected 20 billionaires with their Forbes ranking and their worth. 1.  Bernard Arnault and family ($233 billion), chief executive officer of LVMH ( Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy), the  world's largest luxury goods company  - see photo above of the French businessman with his wife  Hélène Mercier, a Canadian concert pianist...