...DYING TO FIT IN TO THAT WEDDING DRESS Dying to Fit in that Wedding Dress Helen T. Farrar Professor Mary Combs Physical Fitness & Health Baltimore City Community College DYING TO FIT IN TO THAT WEDDING DRESS Abstract Dieting has been a fad for the past few years. People tend to focus on the most popular diets are the ones being flaunted around by celebrities. Women have always tended to go dress crazy when planning their weddings. Women wait until the last minute to want to lose weight before getting a wedding dress. No one seems to do it the healthy way. Exercising would guarantee a normal healthy weight loss before a wedding. DYING TO FIT IN TO THAT WEDDING DRESS Dying to Fit into that Wedding Dress Brides are starting to go on crash diets before tying the knot. They get these ideas that they can lose weight in a matter of days. I believe most diets are really unrealistic. No one has noticed that the cleansing drinks or pill methods never reveal what toxins are in them. Americans tend to not pay attention to themselves but worry about what the celebrities are doing. In chapter 5, it discusses how 66 percent of adults in America are overweight. People aren’t working out nor are they eating healthy. A lot of people tend to not be happy within to change anything. I often wonder if most women only consider losing weight when it comes to only looking good. You never hear about anyone really wanting to lose weight because of health issues. In the...
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...The group in society I have decided to focus on for this internal are teenage girls/young women and how they are represented as sexualised/beautified to market a product to a viewer. Also how they are shown as promiscuous, beauty driven people who are obsessed with achieving physical “perfection” based on their favourite celebrities throughout the media. The three media texts I have chosen that I think best portray the idea of teenage girls and how they strive to be physically perfect are; the film ‘The House Bunny’ , the television show ‘Gossip Girl’ and the magazine ‘Cosmopolitan’. (Mainly the cover) My first example is the television series ‘Gossip Girl’ The first image is a photo from the March 2011 Cosmopolitan magazine of Blake Lively portraying her character Serena Van Der Woodsen in the T.V series ‘Gossip Girl’. Serena has been styled based on her character, beautiful and desirable (mostly due to her wealth and social status in the show). She has been dressed in entirely white, surrounded in a completely white background, this allows her skin to be the main aspect of focus, and it portrays perfectskin and skinniness. Most girls who see this aspire to imitate these images and may inspire feelings of failure when they do not achieve the exact image. Her lips in the picture are pouting making her look sexy and draws attention to her lips by also making them look glossy and shiny. Her face has been ‘retouched’ (or photoshoped) giving her a look of perfection and...
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...was not revealing and she was always put together. The old man, who was played by a female, had special effect makeup on which made the character of the old man look very real. The makeup made the actor look bald and wrinkly. Without the makeup, the character of the old man would not have been as believable and lifelike. The guests at the bar all had on costumes that were appropriate for night life. For example, the women at the bar were all dressed in dresses or skirts and heals. At the wedding, the characters costumes were all appropriate wedding attire, such as suits and dresses. Rita wore a typical long white wedding dress and had a bouquet of flowers. The minister seemed to be somewhat of a hippie or free spirit and her costume reflected on her personality. She had on a flowing shirt and sandals that gave her the appearance of a hippie, which directly reflected her personality. When Rita and Peter went to Jamaica, their costumes were appropriate for a beach setting. Rita wore a flowing dress over her swimsuit and Peter wore swimming trunks. The costumes of Rita and Peter made it look like they really belonged on a tropical island. Swimming suites are not appropriate clothing...
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...BUSINESS PROPOSAL QUARTOPLET’S BRIDAL AGENCY STARFISH HOTEL 58 LEES AVENUE KINGSTON 6 TEL: 926-4853/6789 Minerva Fullerton-Ennis Annette Williams Camellia Gordon Valrie Boswell-Buchanan DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES Quartoplet’s Bridal Agency will be geared towards giving efficient wedding services by providing wedding packages that will satisfy the needs of customers from low income earner to the elite spender. Services in detail: Package name: Desciption Cost______ Local guest: $ Exclusive Wedding rehearsals including JA150,000 private wedding consultant, bridal and bride’s maid dresses and venue decoration. Semi exclusive Custom made bridal gown, JA130,000 bride’s maid dresses, decoration of venue and souvenirs for invitees. Less exclusive Decoration of venue, simple JA90,000 Designer bridal gowns and souvenirs. Tourist: Super guest Bridal gown, bride’s maid dresses/ US 1500 Decorated venue, cake and wine, Marriage certificate in 24 hrs, salon services. Individual pricing: NB. All packages include Bridal flowers and boutonnieres. Bridal parties exceeding eight (8) will attract a charge of 6000.00 each. Special discount of 30% for low income earners by proof of job letter or pay slip...
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...instead of the daunting feeling I’ve lost all the virginally of myself. The definition of a virgin: a person who has never had sexual intercourse, an unmarried girl or woman, or an unmarried girl, religious woman, especially a saint. It’s like all the T.V. reality shows minus the drama and preparations on a woman in her white dress walking down the aisle as her husband awaits her. She’s wearing a white wedding dress to show she has stayed faithful to only one man and is giving up her virginity to him. Right? I can't exaggerate how many TV. shows I’ve watched on women walking down the aisle on their “special day.” The question that always comes to my mind is, “Is she a virgin?”, and “Why is she wearing white if she’s not a virgin!” I can’t help but ask myself those questions even if I’m being morbidly judgmental. As a little girl, I once planned out my whole wedding in my mind--the wedding dress, the veil, the shoes, the corset, the undergarments, and they were all the color of white. I was a virgin, too! I will have to conceal this fact from my parents and myself when I walk down the aisle on my “special” day. It’d be interesting if women had to dress on the color symbolizing how many men they have slept with! Marriage...
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... Development………………………………………………………...3 1, Wedding ceremonies…………………………………………………3 2, Food…………………………………………………………………..5 3, Education…………………………………………………………......7 III, Conclusion………………………………………………………...10 I, Introduction America and Vietnam are two distinctive countries with many differences. The two countries are on different continents, and there is a wide difference between the two countries. The culture, beliefs and practices of the people are different. However, as the world becomes more global, and as people become more exposed to different cultures, the differences between them seem to be narrowing. This is because of the willingness of the people to adopt different cultures, while at the same time maintain some of the elements of their own culture. There are several similarities and differences between America and Vietnam, specifically, in wedding ceremonies, food and the education system. II, Development 1, Wedding ceremonies Wedding ceremonies are significant for couples in both countries. The weddings in both countries are organized, and there are certain rituals that the couple intending to get married has to observe, before and during the wedding ceremony. In both countries, couples have engagement ceremonies before holding a wedding ceremony. In both countries, the couples exchange rings during the wedding. In both countries, the couple often holds a reception after the end of the wedding ceremony. The wedding reception is a time for the couple to share...
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...actions, and businesses they lead. For your paper, select a major business leader from the following names: 1) Steven Jobs, Apple Computer Co. 2) Oprah Winfrey, Harpo 3) Anita Roddick, The Body Shop 4) Vera Wang, Vera Wang Fashions 5) Alan Mulally, CEO Ford Motor Company or 6) Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Describe the business leader’s primary business or business’, highlighting how the leader got started and analyze the leaders three (3) major business challenges in establishing and/or running the company. According to (Ferguson, 2012) the name Vera Wang is synonymous with weddings and bridal wear. Her story began in 1989, when her impending marriage prompted her to search for a suitable gown. Not finding any gowns fitting the look and style she envisioned. She sketched her own design and hired a talented dressmaker to turn her design into reality. According to (Vera Wang, 2012) the year following her wedding, with some financial backing from her father Wang opened her own bridal boutique in the upscale Carlyle Hotel on Madison Avenue in New York City. Catering mostly to celebrities and socialites, the Vera Wang Bridal House initially offered couture gowns by the famed designers Guy Laroche, Arnold Scaasi, Carolina Herrera, and Christian Dior. Over the next few years, Wang honed her skills as a fashion designer and eventually launched a signature collection of streamlined and sophisticated bridal wear. According to (Martins, n.d.) there are five business challenges women entrepreneurs...
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...Description: This line will consist of re-orderable wedding gowns, re-orderable headpieces, dyeable satin shoes, crinolines, re-orderable bridesmaid gowns, and jewelry. Megan's Bridal Boutique will carry 60 wedding gown samples featuring three manufacturer's lines (20 pieces at $200 wholesale, 20 at $300, 20 at $400, for a total start-up cost of $18,000). Three brands of bridesmaid gowns will also be carried with 12 samples per brand offered (36 pieces at $100 wholesale for a total start-up cost of $3,600). One headpiece line will be made available with 15 samples in the store (at a median price of $50 per piece wholesale for a start-up cost of $750). These items will be special order only items. A full range of sizes of basic dyeable shoes, in three heel heights, will be available in the store for off-the-rack purchase (30 pair of each style at $12 each wholesale for a start-up cost of $1,080). A catalog of other styles will complete the offering. Megan's Bridal Boutique will also carry full-length crinolines of all sizes, for purchase only (20 pieces at $15 each wholesale for a start-up cost of $300). Crinolines will be available free of charge for use in the dressing rooms for clients purchasing wedding or bridesmaid gowns or needing them for in-store alterations. In addition, a line of off-the-shelf jewelry will be carried and special order jewelry catalogs will be available (30 pair of earrings and 30 necklaces at $15 each wholesale for a start-up cost of $900). Position...
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...Connections “Fashions fade; style is eternal” - Yves Saint-Laurent Although Yves Saint-Laurent has made made millions in the fashion industry and is a household name, I respectfully disagree. I don't think fashions truly ever really fade. There is always something “coming back in style.” There is one particular style that never really seemed to go away and is still prominent in 21st century high fashion. Greek style dresses have endured the test of time and have become a bit of a staple of modern fashion. The early Greeks made the peplos style famous, but European influence called it the “Empire Waist”; dresses that were long and loose fitting but gathered under the bust. Today, modern wedding dresses are almost always made with some version of an empire waist, and New York Fashion Week's catwalks are littered with remnants of Greek style. No offense to Mr. Saint-Laurent. A peplos is a full-length Greek garment worn by women before 500 BCE. The cloth was manufactured as a tube of fabric that was folded inside out from the top down, then gathered at the waist and fastened at the shoulders in either a strap or with pins. The top of the tube draped down to the waist giving the appearance of a second piece of material. A similar style that would have been worn by both men and women was a chiton[1]. The chiton was a heavier garment made of wool or linen and was held on with a fibula, which was an ancient Greek brooch.[2] Men's styles of chitons were either knee length, or body...
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...buying wedding instead of renting wedding, so, if every wedding 500-1000 yuan, plus accessories and other related industries, will form an annual 100 million yuan of domestic market. In fact, this is not just a hypothesis. With the improvement of people's living level and consumption idea change, more and more Shanghai bride has formed "to buy a set of their own, have the idea of life-long wedding". On the wedding business, "I hope the bride wearing new, custom-made, fit, with retention value of wedding" is their most expect to see results. According to reports, the old and new resources as ordinary clothing as the sale and lease of wedding wedding caused turnover slow compared, both profit growth and the rate of absolute is a world of difference "". According to reports, the wedding dress, evening dress, the target market is still located in the studio and wedding rental shop, so the wedding products the domestic market is still in the low-end. Studio for wedding gown, pay attention to the drama shooting effect, size scalability too casually, and wedding rental shop uses dress is exquisite workmanship and art styles more than. At the same time, because of a wedding dress is often repeated use, health is a sensitive and difficult problem. Concerned, the development of urban industry at the same time, can rely on the advantage of the textile industry, aiming high added value in the wedding industry, the construction of the whole nation and even whole world wedding set design...
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...Wedding Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 4 2. Company Overview 5 2.1. Management and Ownership 5 2.2. Product Description 5 2.3. Mission and Vision Statement 6 2.4. SWOT analysis 7 3. Industry Analysis 8 3.1. Wedding Gown Industry 8 3.2. PESTLE 9 3.3. Porter’s 5 Forces 9 4. Market Analysis 11 4.1. Market Segmentation 11 4.1.1. Profile 11 4.1.2. Psychographic 11 4.1.3. Behavioural 11 4.2. Competitor Analysis 12 4.3. Market Research 12 5. Marketing Plan 14 5.1. Product 14 5.2. Price 15 5.3. Distribution 15 5.4. Promotion 15 6. Operations Plan 17 7. Financial Forecast 19 7.1. Expected P & L Year 1 19 7.2. Two year P & L 19 7.3. Realistic Cash Flow 20 7.4. Three year cash flow forecast 21 7.5. Balance Sheet 22 8. References 23 9. Bibliography 24 10. Appendix 1. 27 11. Appendix 2 28 12. Appendix 3 29 13. Appendix 4 30 14. Appendix 5 31 1. Executive Summary White Baroque is an online company providing online application allowing customers to customize their wedding dresses. White Baroque is unique in that it gives opportunity to create perfect dress for bride on every budget. The company offers wide range of wedding components that customer can match and mix together in order to create perfect gown. The clients' wishes become true. Company’s offer includes variety of designs of weddings gown tops and bottoms, as well as accessories (straps, shoes, vales...
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...house designer and collaborated with Swarovski to deliver classy wedding gowns to future brides at a reasonable price. There are a number of factors that influences the decisions of customers. Some of the factors that will play significant influence in customer’s decisions making in the wedding industry are analysed based on a couple of factors. In the wedding industry, these factors will significantly play a major role in any decision taken by brides. The wedding industry can be a competitive industry for entrepreneurs. Anyone keen in the business need not have to have a store to engage in the bridal business and can do so on a freelance basis. Ease in engaging freelances to assist in the wedding planning process is of ample quantity in the market. When it comes to wedding gowns, there are many substitutes that a bride can do to save cost such as renting their wedding gowns or even sewing it themselves. However these forces did not hinder the plan to set up Dazzling Bride as the strong passion of providing bride- to- be a lifetime experiences that is memorable has been the core reason of setting up a bridal boutique by a group of friends. Weddings are an interesting industry to be involved in as it is an event that never seems to die as the world is evolving no matter how unpredictable the economy can be. What is interesting is the way wedding gowns has evolve and most educated females are looking for wedding gowns that are exclusive and has the capability to make them look...
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...BUSINESS PLAN Brides Plus Wedding Gowns XX Table of Contents Introduction Executive summary Objectives Mission Statement Vision Keys to success Values Company Summary Market analysis Strategy and implementation Management summary Financial Plan Introduction Brides Plus premise is to provide for the rental of new and used wedding gowns, crinolines and bustiers. Could be expanded include bridesmaid’s dresses and prom apparel in season. Emphasis would be on larger sizes but all sizes would be available. This would be a rather ambitious project requiring an initial investment for: stock, location, advertising and any other start up costs. We hope to move forward at a controlled growth rate to a point where we can move to a free standing location with enough room to expand even further in the future Executive Summary This business plan provides an analysis of opening a wedding gown rental. We have included our basic strategies and market analysis and strategies and target markets. We feel we may have discovered a niche market by focusing on the plus size gown rental. Our sales forecasts are based on demographics in the Tri-state area, including southwest Wisconsin, Eastern Iowa and Northern Illinois. This report also includes some limitations. They include a limited income statement and balance sheet...
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...woman prepares for a wedding. All of the woman are pale skinned and Four out of five of the woman are bride’s maids but one is a bride with more tanned skin. Lined up by different heights with shortest on the ends and tallest in the middle but on the left there is a girl who is heavier than the girl who is on the end on the left. The girl on the right with brown hair is skinnier than all the rest of the girls she is bent over on the fourth girl's left shoulder with her behind heightened out. She also has her chest aimed in the same direction as the woman she's bent over on. Making her figure clearly visible from a side view perspective as she wears a hot pink skirt with a hot pink blouse that has a flap going from her right shoulder to the right hip and another ruffled flap. Wearing what seems identical to the other woman but two with sleeves being clearly visible, with her right leg in front of her placing the rest of her weight on the other leg that's planted straight down as she wears white stilettos. Standing with her face forward she makes a face that’s seem exhausting but tries to be seductive. The woman that is to the right end is leaning on a woman with her arms bent on the shoulder that has on an all-white wedding dress that’s stops at her feet so her shoes are not visible and brown hair . She has a hot pink ribbon tied around her waist that's the same color as the other four women dresses. The woman's wedding dress is a strapless white dress that ripples down is...
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...a bridal boutique does an excellent job of assessing area competition. The detailed analysis of both the strengths and weaknesses of rival businesses effectively illustrates the need for a high quality and reasonably priced bridal salon in the region. It is also apparent that this entrepreneur is aware of fashion trends and receptive to customers' needs. * GENERAL BUSINESS DESCRIPTION * INVENTORY DESCRIPTION, ANALYSIS, AND STRATEGY * PROMOTION PLAN * FUTURE PLANS * RESUME * START-UP EXPENSES * PROJECTED STATEMENT OF SALES AND EXPENSES GENERAL BUSINESS DESCRIPTION Megan's Bridal Boutique will be a full-service bridal salon and dress shop catering to the Wisconsin customer who is searching for reasonable quality products at affordable prices. The inventory will consist of wedding gowns, bridesmaid dresses, headpieces, crinolines, jewelry, shoes, party dresses, more casual dresses, and tuxedo rentals. I will run the business myself full-time and hire sales assistance as well as a bridal alterations specialist. The store has the potential of employing up to six full-time employees, estimating a minimum of three to start. The hours will be 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday, with evening appointments available for brides and their parties. All daily bookkeeping will be done by me. An accountant will take care of the necessary month-end work. Megan's Bridal Boutique will be located on Hubbard Drive. I'm currently negotiating a lease...
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