April 18, 2009
Posted by: Vaishali Adwant : Category:
Fashion Gk,
Fun Facts,
haute couture,
tid-bits
Grasse,a small province in France is the center of French perfume industry and is world’s perfume capital.The movie Perfume-Story of a murderer was shot in the same province.The movie is based on a novel by Patrick Süskind.The novel explores the sense of scent, and its relationship with the emotional meaning that scents may carry.This place also has a museum for International perfumes as one of its main sights.
April 15, 2009
Posted by: Vaishali Adwant : Category:
Fun Facts,
tid-bits
Mary Phelps Jacob invented the first rudimentary bra and made brasseries for friends and family for about a year.She also patented them under the company ‘Caress Crosby’ in 1914.In the same year she sold those rights to Warner Brothers Corset company for $1500.
Cautious-Invention..
In 1912 the word brassiere entered the oxford dictionary.In French the word brassiere means underarm.Now that makes me think of deo-and synonymous
