In Redwood Middle School in Northern California, students are now allowed to wear socks with their favorite cartoon charactersSchool officials have relaxed their dress code, thanks to a student who wore socks with the "Winnie the Pooh" cartoon character Tigger on the first day of school last year.

Elated by record sales, a Taiwanese lingerie business has asked all its female staff to report for work in their under garments for a day. Declaring November 21 as Camisole Day in celebration of its record sales, the Audrey Underwear company in Taizhong city, asked its entire female staff of 500 women working in the firm's headquarters to wear nothing but camisoles and underwear.

In anticipation of the 2008 Summer Olympics, a Chinese groom had a wedding gown specially made for his bride measuring 200. 8 meters (658. 8 feet) long. Ken, who hails from the city Guangzhou, says he originally planned to make the dress 2008 meters long, in tribute to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games but buckled down later saying the additional 8 meters would make the gown more difficult to handle.

A traveling exhibition based on broken relationships has arrived in Berlin where it is proving to be popular. Aptly named The Museum of Broken Relationships, it asks people in each city it comes to, to donate memorabilia of their terminated relationships, from brief flings to long painful divorces.

Recent study has shown that lap dancers at the peak of their fertility earn more in tips compared to their colleagues who are either on the Pill or in the non-fertile periods of their menstrual cycle. Comparing the earnings of lap dancers who were menstruating naturally with others taking the contraceptive pill, researchers at the University Of New Mexico said they suspect that pheromones, the subtle scent signals that in animals play a key role in sexual attractiveness, night be involved.