<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Shopping on Late Blooms</title><link>/tags/shopping/</link><description>Recent content in Shopping on Late Blooms</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/tags/shopping/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Indian Dress in Toronto</title><link>/posts/be-dazzled/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/posts/be-dazzled/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[caption id=&amp;ldquo;attachment_2132&amp;rdquo; align=&amp;ldquo;aligncenter&amp;rdquo; width=&amp;ldquo;584&amp;rdquo;]&lt;a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/Lateblooms/n-ZkfX3Q/2014/Be-dazzled/i-dmghTtr/0/KdTxqx8V6zjMwttsgjWnnfXqq8xQZwX3kJCVpzmFk/D/Be-Dazzled-4-Store-Windows-D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="Gerrard&amp;rsquo;s India Bazaar - Toronto" loading="lazy" src="https://jeanjankisamaroo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Be-Dazzled-4-Store-Windows-1024x593.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Gerrard&amp;rsquo;s India Bazaar - Toronto[/caption]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Culture is transportable.  There&amp;rsquo;s a huge Indian diaspora in Toronto and the Gerrard India Bazaar area is where many people shop for ethnic Indian clothing.  I read that it&amp;rsquo;s the oldest and biggest bazaar in North America. Thousands of people were there recently for its Annual South Asian Festival.  &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;The ethnic diversity of South Asian Canadians reflects the enormous cultural variability of South Asia&amp;rsquo;s people. About half of South Asian Canadians were born in India, where 14 major languages are spoken and hundreds of discrete ethnic groups exist.&amp;rdquo; (Canadian Encyclopedia)&lt;/em&gt;  All the images for the collages in this post were taken in that area.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Right Fit</title><link>/posts/the-right-fit/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/posts/the-right-fit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/Lateblooms/n-ZkfX3Q/2013/The-right-fit/i-3DQbj3h/0/MCMsgjNHhSHFdk6KWmH7bB7GLwjZQnxT6L8wPxH7N/D/Shoes-for-blog-Jungs-quote-D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="Trying on Shoes" loading="lazy" src="https://jeanjankisamaroo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Shoes-for-blog-Jungs-quote-1024x585.jpg" title="Shoes for blog (Jung&amp;#39;s quote)"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;cases.  ~ Carl Jung&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Starting early this summer, I had to think about shoes quite a bit.  There were three weddings to attend and I also needed a pair of comfortable sandals.  When I was young, I loved buying shoes, and, in fact, had a passion for nice footwear.  At this time of life, though, it is definitely more of a chore.  I still admire beautiful shoes but it definitely isn&amp;rsquo;t about how beautiful they look on me.  The number one criteria is that they have to feel comfortable.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>