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MANILA, Philippines - Flash floods and typhoons. The epidemic formerly known as swine flu. Con Ass.

The one bright spot in this seemingly apocalyptic milieu is the new collaboration between Britain’s doyenne of fashion, Vivienne Westwood, and Melissa, the brand that made plastic footwear actually cool.

The Squiggle boots retro-reference by Westwood’s memorable pirate collection from 1981.

Attack the weather, dive feet-first into muddy protest rallies in these boots. Rainwear never had to be black and boring.

Melissa galoshes will be available at Mix, Greenbelt 5 this July.

The coloring book

As many readers remain clueless about how to best use color in their homes, Real Living magazine thought it best to devote an entire book on the subject — Real Home Ideas 4: The Color Book. Real Living editor in chief Rachelle Medina says, “Color defines and personalizes areas: it sets a mood, subdues a space or accents it, and also makes a theme coherent, among many other things.”

Real Home Ideas 4 helps you brush up on the basics of color by getting you acquainted with the color wheel and different color combinations, and devotes several chapters to various single colors and color combinations. Using more than 200 pictures from Real Living’s most beautiful houses, Real Home Ideas 4 illustrates tips on mixing and matching hues in your home.

The book also offers 16 color palette swatches you can show to your designer or house painter, gives you a step-by-step guide to proper paint application, notes the importance of lighting by showing you how color changes according to the room’s light source, and more.

Real Home Ideas 4: The Color Book, published by Summit Books, is available in newsstands and bookstores nationwide at P195 per copy.