Bulgarian Folk Arts; Wearable Art; Digital Dressing Room

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BULGARIAN FOLK ARTS

   This book is published with both Bulgarian and English.  This is a small
selection:

NATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHIC MUZEUM (sic)
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
_TRADITIONAL_
_BULGARIAN COSTUMES_
_AND FOLK ARTS_
92 pages, paperback
Sofia, 1994

Pg. 10:  Mein (sic) types and variants are presented: with two aprons, with
one apron, _soukman_ (low-cut sleeveless dress), and _saya_ (long dress_),
these being women's costumes, while men's costumes are _belodreshna_
(predominantly white clothes) and _chernpdreshna_ (predominantly black
clothes).

Pg. 14:  The appearance of a second type of men's
costume--_chernodreshna_--was part of the common for the whole country
process of darkening men's clothes, particularly prominent in the period of
Bulgarian Revival.

Pg. 28:  The _sourvaknitsa_ (decorated cornel twig) is made specially for New
Year's Day by fifteen (sixteen)-year-old boys who wait to hear the first
cockcrow when they start to go from house to house.

Pg. 28:  _Koukeri_ masks are one of the most interesting, picturesque and
semantically rich ritual objects preserved in the Museum.

Pg. 29:  The _martenitsa_ (OED?--ed.) is a symbol of unique Bulgarian custom.
 It is made specially for 1 March when, according to the Bulgarians, the new
agricultural year begins.  It is a kind of amulet (twisted and tasselled red
and white threads) which in the Museum's collection is presented by samples
from the whole country.

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WEARABLE ART

   From the INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, 13 October 2000, pg. 21, col. 1:

_"Wearable Art" Show_
_Takes on the World_
By Rebekah Palmer
   WELLINGTON--An off-beat fashion show that began 12 years ago in a small
New Zealand town has grown to become a popular showcase of creativity
featuring weird and wonderful entries from all over the world.
   The Wearable Art Awards...

("Wearable art" is much older than 12 years ago--ed.)

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DIGITAL DRESSING ROOMS (VIRTUAL CHANGING ROOMS)

   From the INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, 13 October 2000, pg. 22, col. 2:

   New technologies being developed by U.S. department store groups could
soon make designer clothes a more viable proposition on the Net: Customers
can key in their measurements and "try on" garments in virtual chagning
rooms.  Lands End reports some success with its virtual dressing room, with
1.5 million hits over two years.

(Hits go back to 1998--ed.)

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BLOBULAR

   From the HOLLAND HERALD (KLM in-flight magazine), October 2000, pg. 13,
col. 1:

   From soap dishes to Fords, computer showrooms to bicycles, Newson's
distinctive "blobular" designs and curves have reinvigorated the stale
products that capitalism tosses us.

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PRICE-TO-PRESS-CUTTINGS RATIO

   From the FINANCIAL TIMES (Special Report: The Internet Revolution), 13
October 2000, pg. 8, col. 7:

   Indeed, credibility was sometimes conferred by the amount of press
attention the stocks had generated.  Internet analysts joked about a
"price-to-press-cuttings ratio."

   See also THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, 11 November 1999, pg. C1:3:

_Internet Investors Start to Regard Press Releases On New Products as Reason
to Send Stock Soaring_
   (...)
   It all raises the question whether a price-to-press release ratio for
Internet companies can be far behind.