Art & Craft Questions & Answers

Art & Craft Questions & Answers

What is a hanbok?

Hanbok is the traditional Korean dress, often characterized by vibrant colors and simple lines without pockets. Traditional women’s Hanbok consists of jeogori, a blouse shirt or a jacket, and chima, a wrap-around skirt usually worn full. The ensemble is often called chima jeogori. Men’s hanbok consists of jeogori and baji which means pants. The baji were baggy pants in traditional …

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What is a cheapuccino?

While a capuccino is expresso and hot milk in equal proportions topped with whipped cream, a cheapuccino is considered to be an inexpensive capuccino of low quality. The capuccino we get from vending machines is an example of this. What’s cappuccino? A cappuccino is a coffee drink topped with foamed milk. It is made in a steam-producing espresso machine. Espresso …

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What is a Black Forest dress?

Black Forest or Schwarzwald is a thickly wooded mountainous region in southwest Germany, extending over 4,600 square miles. Three neighbouring parishes – Gutach, Wolfach-Kirnbach, and Hornberg-Reichenbach of Black Forest – are known for their women’s traditional costumes known as the ‘Black Forest dress’ worn on special occasions. It consists of long skirts with floral designs and the Bollenhut, a wide-brimmed …

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How did the term ‘window dressing’ originate?

How did the term ‘window dressing’ originate? — Textile and readymade shops dress mannequins (models of human bodies) with attractive clothing they sell and place them in display windows. Likewise, mutual funds and banks add more temporary assets and liabilities on year ends to ensure their balance sheets remain attractive to the public, especially investors. As their intention is to …

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