Comments on: Bespoke http://www.word-detective.com/2012/02/bespoke/ Semper Ubi Sub Ubi Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mary n http://www.word-detective.com/2012/02/bespoke/comment-page-1/#comment-56070 mary n Sun, 03 Mar 2013 09:04:00 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=6448#comment-56070 Here here !!!! Here here !!!!

]]> By: mary n http://www.word-detective.com/2012/02/bespoke/comment-page-1/#comment-56069 mary n Sun, 03 Mar 2013 09:03:03 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=6448#comment-56069 I have come across "bespoke" in many adverts and it seems to me that it is being used to put an upmarket spin on the item I have come across “bespoke” in many adverts and it seems to me that it is being used to put an upmarket spin on the item

]]> By: Jeannie http://www.word-detective.com/2012/02/bespoke/comment-page-1/#comment-45726 Jeannie Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:08:49 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=6448#comment-45726 "Bespoke" is popping up everywhere, and it strikes me as terribly affected. Editors, stem the tide! “Bespoke” is popping up everywhere, and it strikes me as terribly affected. Editors, stem the tide!

]]> By: Diane http://www.word-detective.com/2012/02/bespoke/comment-page-1/#comment-36963 Diane Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:49:20 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=6448#comment-36963 Having traveled to London twice this year, I hear that word overused in the UK, but very seldom hear it used here in the US. Having traveled to London twice this year, I hear that word overused in the UK, but very seldom hear it used here in the US.

]]> By: Amanda C. Peterson http://www.word-detective.com/2012/02/bespoke/comment-page-1/#comment-34557 Amanda C. Peterson Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:50:53 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=6448#comment-34557 I'd also venture that the rise of the term "bespoke" is being used more frequently with the rise of Chinese and Indian tailors making suits, shirts and shoes custom for Americans more frequently -- through online sites, in those "coming to your town to measure" and through it becoming more common practice to, if you have to go to Shanghai for business -- which happens more frequently, you might as well stop by a custom tailor. As the price of "bespoke" goes down to be reachable by at least the upper middle class, the language spreads. I’d also venture that the rise of the term “bespoke” is being used more frequently with the rise of Chinese and Indian tailors making suits, shirts and shoes custom for Americans more frequently — through online sites, in those “coming to your town to measure” and through it becoming more common practice to, if you have to go to Shanghai for business — which happens more frequently, you might as well stop by a custom tailor.

As the price of “bespoke” goes down to be reachable by at least the upper middle class, the language spreads.

]]> By: Ben Wrankle http://www.word-detective.com/2012/02/bespoke/comment-page-1/#comment-34451 Ben Wrankle Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:00:08 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=6448#comment-34451 My first encounter with bespeak was in Dickens's <i>Nicholas Nickleby</i>, where a "Great Bespeak" is held for Miss Snevellicci, one of Nicholas's actor friends. From the context it's clear that it's a benefit performance for Miss Snevellicci. My first encounter with bespeak was in Dickens’s Nicholas Nickleby, where a “Great Bespeak” is held for Miss Snevellicci, one of Nicholas’s actor friends. From the context it’s clear that it’s a benefit performance for Miss Snevellicci.

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