TTT Top Ten Accessories For Students (NAPSA)—When looking for their own back-to-school style, a many students are taking a walk on the wild side this season, and separating themselves from the pack with metallics, animal prints and fur. “Students want to personalize their style with backpacks, binders and other items that reflect their individuality. They start with a basic product and accessorize it with key-chains, pieture frames or stickers to make it their own,” said Petter Knutrud, Staples’ senior product manager. According to Knutrud, students will use these Top Ten products to express their unique style: 1. Original Book Sox, a wash- able, non-shrink fabric book cover in a variety of patterns and colors, are engineered to stretch over hardcovered books. 2. Translucent colors, metallics and iridescents are this year’s trend on notebooks, portfolios, organizers, pens, pencils, lunch bags and picture frames. 3. Faux fur is a must-have for decorating a room or locker, showing up on everything from pencil eases to picture frames and mirrors in hot colors like pink and purple. 4. Staples offers a wide selection of backpacks from FusBu’s blaek backpack with a detachable basketball to popular messenger bags with a like-leather look in shadesofsilver and ice blue. 5. Key chains come in all shapes, sizes and colors, whether they’re clip-on watches, licensed characters or mini-games. 6. This season, kids will be hunting for animal prints and This season’s back-to-school accessories are packed with style and function. shapes on a variety of school supplies such as pencil pouches and fluffy feather pens. 7. For those who can’t get enough of J.K. Rowling’s young wizard, Harry Potter, there’s Troll- booger glue, Hogwarts supplies and Disappearing Glue Sticks. 8. Personalizing binders, folders and notebooks with pictures is very popular and can be easier with Polaroid’s digital camera. 9. The gel pen craze broadens this season with Pentech’s new Gel Crayons, which give kids the feeling of a crayon with the vibrancyof gel ink. 10. Glacier Gear insulated luneh bags include ice packs and come in a variety of colors and styles ineluding hot pink, purple and prints such as leopard, zebra and snake skin. For more information, visit your loeal Staples or visit www.staples.com to locate a store near you.
