Some popular overseas food brands opened in Singapore with less than desirable fanfare. Social media feeds were literally flooded with pictures of char siew buns. Add in a charity event. Play the Michelin star factor. Krispy Kreme went beyond generous, sending boxes of 4 dozens!
We love a bit of competition — most of which are really imaginary. All the food business needs to do is create some form of scarcity. The scarcity does not need to be real. Da Paolo makes just Crodos at each store each day.
For most of these food hypes, the queues came and left faster than facebook makes its updates, especially when customers feel that they are not getting a good deal for the time invested in waiting— not tasty, too expensive, not worth the queue and hype. We have all heard the news of the Krispy Kreme queue. It was not unexpected given the amount of media publicity they drummed up. The real test is: What comes after next?
Food businesses should not look at just the initial burst of publicity, but sustainability. You want returning customers , not those who are frustrated by queues and queue systems. We do not need to look too far away to realise that J. Who still remembers Donut Factory and their 3 hour queues at Raffles City?
Last word of advice to food businesses: Keep your customers close, and your media friends closer. The PR Companies have played their cards brilliantly. Costume historians[who? Waistlines started just below the bust the Empire silhouette and gradually sank to the natural waist. Skirts started fairly narrow and increased dramatically to the hoopskirt and crinoline-supported styles of the s; then fullness was draped and drawn to the back by means of bustles.
In the s the rainy daisy skirt was introduced for walking or sportswear. It had a significantly shorter hemline measuring as much as six inches off the ground and would eventually influence the wider introduction of shorter hemlines in the early 20th century. For the next fifty years fashionable skirts became short s , then long s , then shorter the War Years with their restrictions on fabric , then long the "New Look" , then shortest of all from to , when skirts became as short as possible while avoiding exposure of underwear, which was considered taboo.
Basic types A-line skirt, a skirt with a slight flare, roughly in the shape of a capital letter A Bell-shaped skirt, flared noticeably from the waist but then, unlike a church bell, cylindrical for much of its length Circle skirt, a skirt cut in sections to make one or more circles with a hole for the waist, so the skirt is very full but hangs smoothly from the waist without darts, pleats, or gathers Culottes, a form of divided skirt constructed like a pair of shorts, but hanging like a skirt.
Though traditionally designed as women's wear, it is fashioned to mimic the general appearance of a man's kilt. Popular in the mid-late s when it was inspired by Westwood's "mini-crini". Alternatively, but with similar effect, a pair of shorts incorporating a skirt-like flap across the front of the body. Layers may look identical in solid-colored garments, or may differ when made of printed fabrics.
Male wear: There are a number of garments marketed to men which fall under the category of "skirt" or "dress". These go by a variety of names and form part of the traditional dress for men from various cultures. Usage varies — the dhoti is part of everyday dress on the Indian subcontinent while the kilt is more usually restricted to occasional wear and the foustanella is used almost exclusively as costume.
Robes, which are a type of dress for men, have existed in many cultures, including the Japanese kimono, the Chinese cheongsam, the Arabic thobe, and the African Senegalese kaftan. Robes are also used in some religious orders, such as the cassock in Christianity and various robes and cloaks that may be used in pagan rituals.
Examples of men's skirts and skirt-like garments from various cultures include: -The fustanella is worn by men in Greece and other parts of the Balkans. By the midth Century, it was relegated to ceremonial use and as period or traditional costume. They are required to wear it every day as part of national dress in government offices, in schools and on formal occasions. Irish and Welsh kilts also exist but are not so much a part of national identity. Sarongs exist in various cultures under various names, including the pareo and lavalava of the Hawaiian islands and Polynesia Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, and Fiji , the Indian dhoti and lungi, and the South Indian and Maldivian mundu.
Aside from the wearing of kilts, in the Western world skirts, dresses, and similar garments are commonly considered primarily women's clothing — which, historically, was not always the case. A blouse is a loose-fitting upper garment that was formerly worn by workmen, peasants, artists, women and children.
It is typically gathered at the waist or hips by a waistband or belt so that it hangs loosely "blouses" over the wearer's body. Today, the word most commonly refers to a girl's or woman's dress shirt but can also refer to a man's shirt if it is a loose-fitting style e. Traditionally, the term has been used to refer to a shirt which blouses out or has an unmistakably feminine appearance. The term is also used for some men's military uniform jackets.
Etymology: Blouse is a loanword to English from French: blouse means "dust coat". It possibly was brought back from their travels by French Crusaders.
They moved on their armor a so-called "p e lusisian shirt", a blue-colored gowns to the dust, which had its name from the Egyptian town of Pelusium.
It is first officially noted in , from French blouse "a workman's or peasant's smock" , of obscure Occitan route. Description and history: Blouses pronounced blause or blooze are historically a cask style, mostly mail-like garment, that were rarely part of the fashionable woman's wardrobe until the s.
Before that time, they were occasionally popular for informal wear in styles that echoed peasant or traditional clothing, such as the Garibaldi shirt of the During the later Victorian period blouses became common for informal, practical wear. A simple blouse with a plain skirt was the standard dress for the newly expanded female non-domestic workforce of the s, especially for those employed in office work.
In the s and s, elaborate blouses, such as the "lingerie blouse" so-called because they were heavily decorated with lace and embroidery in a style formerly restricted to underwear and the "Gibson Girl blouse" with tucks and pleating, became immensely popular for daywear and even some informal evening wear. Since then, blouses have remained a wardrobe staple, so by now blouses have not ceased to be fixed in the "popular cloakroom" style.
Blouses are often made of cotton or silk cloth and may or may not include a collar and sleeves. They are generally more tailored than simple knit tops, and may contain feminine details such as ruffles, a tie or a soft bow at the neck, or embroidered decorations.
Tailoring provides a closer fit to the wearer's shape. Blouses and many women's shirts with buttons usually have buttons reversed from that of men's shirts except in the case of male military fatigues. That is, the buttons are normally on the wearer's left-hand and the buttonholes are on the right. The reasons for this are unclear, and several theories exist without have conclusive evidence.
Some suggest this custom was introduced by launderers so they could distinguish between women's and men's shirts. One theory purports that the tradition arose in the Middle Ages when one manner of manifesting wealth was by the number of buttons one wore. Another that the original design was based on armour which was designed so that a right-handed opponent would not catch their weapon in the seam and tear through,and that a person could draw a weapon with their right-hand without catching it in a loose seam of their own clothes.
Female servants were in charge of buttoning their mistress's gowns since the buttons were usually in the back. They tired of attempting to deal with buttons that were, from their point of view, backwards and, as such they started reversing the placement when making or repairing them. Another possible reason is so that men can easily undo blouses as, from the front, buttons are on the same side as a man's shirt. One other theory is that women were normally dressed by their maids, while men dressed themselves.
As such, women's blouses were designed so it could be easily buttoned by the maid but that of men were designed so it could be easily buttoned by the person wearing it. Although in all the cases proposed the reasons for the distinction no longer exist, it continues out of custom or tradition.
While most women prefer to have the top button open for better comfort, some blouses made for women have looser necklines so the top button can be fastened without compromising comfort, but giving the same stylish appearance. Some women attach various pins and ornaments to their blouses over a fastened top button for style. Some of these attach directly to the button itself, others to the collars.
Some blouses do not have a top button at all, and collars are styled to be open. They also form part of some nations' traditional folk costume. Styles since World War Two: Various new and different forms of collar emerged in the s. They diminished in sizes by the s, but were huge in the s. At the beginning of the s, popular styles included the rounded collar, sausage dog collar, then extra wide collar and double cuffs from shirts, that fell on them often from fashions relating to synthetic fabrics like usually polyester.
The fashion of standing and federal collar, loops, rounded collars, haemoglobin collars, and the smallest collar, sometimes with concealed button fly on a "smoking blouse", attached folds and stressed set-in-followed in the s. Again, thin and often shining synthetic fibres were very popular.
Towards the end of the 20th Century, they were of an extra-long blouses of pants style and worn over trousers or skirt worn, optionally combined with a rather wide belt around the waist in the Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, the UK, Ireland, South Africa and the USA. As the eye will be drawn to the naked flesh below the sleeve, designers often use sleeve length to focus the minds eye on the slimmer parts of the arm, particularly short sleeve blouses below the elbow to give the illusion of a slimmer arm.
Sleeveless tops were fashionable and a topical item in Western Europe and America during the mids. Many fashionable styles of both the s and s were on the go again after the millennium in the blouse fashion: double cuffs, extra wide pointed collar, belt around the waist, synthetic fibre and the like.
Often the blouses also embroidery or "crystal stocking", have especially on collar and string. The blouses with the so-called three-quarter arm were a striking phenomenon of the s. Blouses can be combined well and easily with a blazer, tank top, bolero or sweater, with or without some colourful silks or bead chain necklaces. Eco movement: As part of the Eco movement's folk blouses for women were cut from natural materials such as flax, linen and cotton.
Men also wore these "Frisian blouses" on occasion. The blouse jacket or blouson: The blouse jacket or blouson is garment drawn tight at the waist with blousing hanging over the waist band. The new style of man's chetten lose blouse coat is made of stronger material or with inner lining, which can be worn alone or as a jacket or over a separate top is related to.
It is related to the Eisenhower jacket. Use in Aboyne dress: In one version, a tartan pattern skirt is worn with an over-the-shoulder plaid, a white blouse and petticoat, and a velvet bodice. The alternative is a white dress over a petticoat, together with a tartan pattern sash.
A typical Aboyne dress consists of a dark bodice or elaborate waistcoat, decorative blouse, full tartan skirt and some times a petticoat and apron. Some have a tartan sash usually draped over the shoulder and coming down towards the hem of the skirt in the back rather than an apron. Use with a dirndl: A woman wearing a dirndl with white blouse is usual in Bavaria and rural Austria. They are usually made of light fabric textile , such as silk or cotton thin, until the early s still often from soft covered by art faserstoffen such as polyester and satin.
They often have fanciful decorations such as frills, embroidery, or grinding and are a classic among the women's blouses—here the fashionable combination possibilities are especially varied. The open Spaten—or lapel collar—is another common type of a classic ladies blouse.
The choli: A choli is a midriff-baring blouse shell garment in the Indian sari costume worn in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and other countries where the sari is worn. The choli is cut to fit tightly to the body and has short sleeves and a low neck. The choli is usually cropped, allowing exposure of the navel; the cropped design is particularly well-suited for wear in the hot South Asian summers. Cut-out backs and front-opening buttons are some of the features of contemporary designs.
Saris are often woven with an extra length of material meant to be cut off and fashioned into a matching choli. The choli may be sewn so that the elaborately woven borders of the sari material form the bottom edges of the choli sleeves.
However, cholis need not match the sari. There is a growing trend towards stretchy, comfortable cholis made from knit materials. Wednesday, June 29, Duck face. What a baby did once. She's so cute and cuddly. Kiss the baby. Something i must do. I must kiss babies. I'm done packing. I love axe shampoo and body wash. I don't know why. Back sore. My back hurts so much. Picked it up so fast. I wonder how i picked up ASL so fast. I've gotta pack my duffel for the weekend. Hair cut. I'm likely going to need a full hair cut with in months.
I might need some chips as i like them. Long hair. My hair is long. It's finally not frizzy. Brush my hair. My hair needs brushing. I'm feeling a little unwell. My head hurts and my back is sore. Back ache. My back hurts and its due to my weight loss. Somehow on a vegetarian diet I'm not eating as much and I'm filling up more. Bohemian style. In modern usage, the term "Bohemian" is applied to people who live unconventional, usually artistic, lives.
The adherents of the "Bloomsbury Group", which formed around the Stephen sisters, Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf in the early 20th century, are among the best-known examples. Reflecting on the fashion style of "boho-chic" in the early years of the 21st century, the Sunday Times thought it ironic that "fashionable girls wore ruffly floral skirts in the hope of looking bohemian, nomadic, spirited and non-bourgeois", whereas "gypsy girls themselves By contrast, in the late 19th century and first half of the 20th, aspects of Bohemian fashion reflected the lifestyle itself.
Thus, the features of hippie fashion re-emerged at various stages during the ensuing forty years. In the mid-to-late s, variants of the short and fundamentally un-Bohemian rah-rah skirt which originated with cheerleaders were combined with leather or demin to create a look with some Bohemian or even gothic features for example, by the singing duo Strawberry Switchblade who took inspiration from s punk fashion.
These drew on, among other influences, the style, popular in retrospect, of Talitha Getty died , actress wife of John Paul Getty and step-granddaughter of Dorelia McNeil, who was represented most famously in a photograph of her and her husband taken by Patrick Lichfield in Marrakesh, Morocco in In the early 21st century, "boho-chic" was associated initially with supermodel Kate Moss and then, as a highly popular style in , with actress Sienna Miller.
In America similar styles were sometimes referred to as "bobo-" or "ashcan chic", or "luxe grunge", their leading proponents including actresses Mary-Kate Olsen and Zooey Deschanel. As if to illustrate the cyclical nature of fashion, by the end of the noughties strong pre-Raphaelite traits were notable in, among others, singer Florence Welch and model Karen Elson. Boho-chic is a style of fashion drawing on various bohemian and hippie influences, which, at its height in late was associated particularly with actress Sienna Miller and model Kate Moss in England and as "bobo" chic actress and businesswoman Mary-Kate Olsen in the United States.
It has been seen since the early s and, although appearing to wane from time to time, has repeatedly re-surfaced in varying guises. Many elements of boho-chic became popular in the late s and some date back much further, being associated, for example, with pre-Raphaelite women of the mid-to-late 19th century.
Lexicography- "Boho": "Boho" is an abbreviation of bohemian. Vanessa Nicholson granddaughter of Vanessa Bell, one of the pivotal figures of the unconventional, but influential "Bloomsbury Group" in the first half of the 20th century has described it as a "curious slippery adjective".
The writer and historian A. Wilson remarked that, "in his dress-sense as in much else", Winston Churchill was "pre-First World War Bohemian", his unbleached linen suit causing surprise when he arrived in Canada in In Arthur Conan Doyle's first short story about Holmes for The Strand, Doctor Watson noted that the detective "loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul" and "remained in our lodgings in Baker-street, buried among his old books and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition..
Designer Savannah Miller, elder sister of actress Sienna Miller, described a "real bohemian" as "someone who has the ability to appreciate beauty on a deep level, is a profound romantic, doesn't know any limits, whose world is their own creation, rather than living in a box". Chic, meaning "stylish" or "smart", is an element of fashion. Etymology: Chic is a French word, established in English since at least the s. Early references in English dictionaries classified it as slang and New Zealand-born lexicographer Eric Partridge noted, with reference to its colloquial meaning, that it was "not so used in French.
There is a similar word in German, schick, with a meaning similar to chic, which may be the origin of the word in French; another theory links chic to the word chicane. In a fictional vignette for Punch c. Kilpatrick attributed to a young woman who 70 years later would have been called a "chavette" the following assertion: "It 'asn't go no buttons neither That's the latest ideer. If you want to be chick you just 'ang on to it, it seems". By contrast, in Anita Loos' novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , the diarist Lorelei Lee recorded that "the French use the word 'sheik' for everything, while we only seem to use if for gentlemen when they seem to resemble Rudolf Valentino" a pun derived from the latter's being the star of the silent film, The Sheik.
The Oxford Dictionary gives the comparative and superlative forms of chic as chicer and chicest. Super-chic is sometimes used: "super-chic Incline bucket in mouth-blown, moulded glass" An adverb chicly has also appeared: "Pamela Gross The opposite of "chic" is unchic: "the then uncrowded, unchic little port of St Tropez".
Quotes: Over the years "chic" has been applied to, among other things, social events, situations, individuals, and modes or styles of dress. It was one of a number of "slang words" that H. Fowler linked to particular professions — specifically, to "society journalism" — with the advice that, if used in such a context, "familiarity will disguise and sometimes it will bring out its slanginess.
Benson's novel Lucia in London , Lucia was aware that the arrival of a glittering array of guests before their hostess for an impromptu post-opera gathering was "the most chic informality that it was possible to conceive.
Starbucks Corporation is an American coffee company and coffeehouse chain. Starbucks was founded in Seattle, Washington in Starbucks is considered the main representative of "second wave coffee", initially distinguishing itself from other coffee-serving venues in the US by taste, quality, and customer experience, while popularizing darkly roasted coffee.
Since the s, third wave coffee makers have targeted quality-minded coffee drinkers with hand-made coffee based on lighter roasts, while Starbucks nowadays used automated espresso machines for efficiency and safety reasons. Starbucks locations serve hot and cold drinks, whole-bean coffee, microground instant coffee known as VIA, espresso, caffe latte, full- and loose-leaf teas including Teavana tea products, Evolution Fresh juices, Frappuccino beverages, pastries, and snacks; some offerings including their Pumpkin Spice Latte are seasonal or specific to the locality of the store.
Many stores sell pre-packaged food items, hot and cold sandwiches, and drinkware including mugs and tumblers; select "Starbucks Evenings" locations offer beer, wine, and appetizers.
Starbucks-brand coffee, ice cream and bottled cold coffee drinks are also sold at grocery stores. Starbucks first became profitable in Seattle in the early s, and despite an initial economic downturn with its expansion into the Midwest and British Columbia in the late s, the company experienced revitalized prosperity with its entry into California in the early s.
The first Starbucks location outside North America opened in Tokyo in ; overseas properties now constitute almost one third of its stores. The company had opened an average of two new locations daily between and The three were inspired to sell high-quality coffee beans and equipment by coffee roasting entrepreneur Alfred Peet after he taught them his style of roasting beans. The company took the name of the chief mate in the book Moby-Dick: Starbuck, after considering "Cargo House" and "Pequod".
Bowker recalls that Terry Heckler, with whom Bowker owned an advertising agency, thought words beginning with "st" were powerful.
The founders brainstormed a list of words beginning with "st". Someone pulled out an old mining map of the Cascade Range and saw a mining town named "Starbo", which immediately put Bowker in mind of the character "Starbuck". Bowker said, "Moby-Dick didn't have anything to do with Starbucks directly; it was only coincidental that the sound seemed to make sense.
This cafe was later moved to Pike Place Market; never to be relocated again. During this time, the company only sold roasted whole coffee beans and did not yet brew coffee to sell. The only brewed coffee served in the store were free samples. During their first year of operation, they purchased green coffee beans from Peet's, then began buying directly from growers. Sale and expansion: In , the original owners of Starbucks, led by Jerry Baldwin, purchased Peet's. By the company operated six stores in Seattle and had only just begun to sell espresso coffee.
In , the original owners sold the Starbucks chain to former employee Howard Schultz, who rebranded his Il Giornale coffee outlets as Starbucks and quickly began to expand.
By , 46 stores existed across the Northwest and Midwest and annually, Starbucks was roasting over 2,, pounds , kg of coffee. The company once again utilized the mobile platform when it launched the "Tweet-a-Coffee" promotion in October Expansion to new markets and products: The first Starbucks location outside North America opened in Tokyo, Japan, in Starbucks entered the U.
Currently there are over locations in Mexico. In , Starbucks experimented with eateries in the San Francisco Bay area through a restaurant chain called Circadia. These restaurants were soon "outed" as Starbucks establishments and converted to Starbucks cafes.
In October , Starbucks established a coffee trading company in Lausanne, Switzerland to handle purchases of green coffee. All other coffee-related business continued to be managed from Seattle.
The deal only gained stores for Starbucks, but according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer the wholesale business was more significant. In September , rival Diedrich Coffee announced that it would sell most of its company-owned retail stores to Starbucks. This sale included the company-owned locations of the Oregon-based Coffee People chain.
In , the company opened its first store in Russia, ten years after first registering a trademark there. In March they purchased the manufacturer of the Clover Brewing System. They began testing the "fresh-pressed" coffee system at several Starbucks locations in Seattle, California, New York and Boston. In early , Starbucks started a community website, My Starbucks Idea, designed to collect suggestions and feedback from customers. Other users comment and vote on suggestions.
Journalist Jack Schofield noted that "My Starbucks seems to be all sweetness and light at the moment, which I don't think is possible without quite a lot of censorship". The website is powered by Salesforce. In May , a loyalty program was introduced for registered users of the Starbucks Card previously simply a gift card offering perks such as free Wi-Fi Internet access, no charge for soy milk and flavored syrups, and free refills on brewed drip coffee, iced coffee or tea.
In , Starbucks began beta testing its mobile app for the Starbucks card, a stored value system in which consumers access pre-paid funds to purchase products at Starbucks. Starbucks released its complete mobile platform on January 11, On February 1, , Starbucks opened its first store in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and this was followed by an announcement in late August that the retailer will be opening its inaugural store in Colombia. The Colombian announcement was delivered at a press conference in Bogota, where the company's CEO explained, "Starbucks has always admired and respected Colombia's distinguished coffee tradition.
This location will be one of 30 Starbucks stores that will serve beer and wine. In September , it was revealed that Starbucks would acquire the remaining The first location will open in the capital city of Phnom Penh by the end of In February , Starbucks announced that it will enter Italy, its 24th market in Europe.
The first location will open in Milan by Corporate governance: Starbucks' chairman, Howard Schultz, has talked about making sure growth does not dilute the company's culture and the common goal of the company's leadership to act like a small company.
Howard Schultz served as the company's CEO until Orin C. In January , Schultz resumed his roles as President and CEO after an eight-year hiatus, replacing Jim Donald, who took the posts in but was asked to step down after sales slowed in Schultz aims to restore what he calls the "distinctive Starbucks experience" in the face of rapid expansion. I presume I could have asked for a beer. You can book flights direct on the Qantas Website. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.
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