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Burberry flagship boutique on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan A Hermès boutique in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. A boutique (French:) is a retail shop that deals in high end fashionable clothing or accessories. [1] The word is French for "shop", which derives ultimately from the Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothēkē) "storehouse". [2] [3]
How to make vol-au-vents. A vol-au-vent is typically made by cutting two circles in rolled out puff pastry, cutting a hole in one of them, then stacking the ring-shaped piece on top of the disc-shaped piece. [2] The pastry is cooked, then filled with any of a variety of savory or sweet fillings.
A boutique is a small store offering a select range of fashionable goods or accessories. The term boutique, in retail and services, appears to be taking on a broader meaning with popular references to retail goods and retail services such as boutique hotels, boutique or craft beers, boutique investments etc. [ 6 ]
Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into outfits that depict distinctive ways of dressing (styles and trends) as signifiers of social status, self-expression, and group belonging.
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Clothing in history, showing (from top) Egyptians, Ancient Greeks, Romans; Byzantines, Franks; and thirteenth through fifteenth century Europeans A kanga, worn throughout the African Great Lakes region
The term "vol-au-vent" appears already 1739 in Marin's book "Le Dons de Comus". Carême was born 1784. The German Wikipedia page states: Die Erfindung der Vol-au-vents wird in der Populärliteratur oft dem französischen Koch Marie-Antoine Carême zugeschrieben.
A vent is a vertical slit rising from the bottom hem of a jacket or a skirt, generally to allow for ease of movement. [ 1 ] In the case of jackets, vents were originally a sporting option, designed to make riding easier, so are traditional on hacking jackets, formal coats such as a morning coat , and, for reasons of pragmatism, overcoats.