I've seen the word "bespoke" a few times, usually regarding high-end product reviews. What does it mean?
2007-02-25 08:53:14 · 12 answers · asked by maxnull 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Bespoke means to have something made, individually, based on your specific instructions.
If I was to have a bespoke hamper made up by Fortnum and Masons, it would have a crisp tossed salad, with hard deep red plums and the easiest peel satsumas. Sweet baby carrots and diced turnip (both raw). A punnet of blackberries with fresh cream and some high quality vanilla ice cream. To drink, they could include some Pepsi Max, fresh pineapple/grapefruit juice and of course, ice cold milk.
Anyway, you'll have to excuse me, all this talk about some of my favourite food and drink has made me hungry and I have a salad (tossed of course) in the fridge.
2007-02-25 11:49:58 · answer #1 · answered by elflaeda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bespoke is a usually British English term for tailored clothing made at a customer's behest, and exactly to the customer's specification. Bespoke clothing is created without use of a pre-existing pattern, differentiating it from made to measure, which alters a standard-sized pattern to fit the customer. "Bespoke" comes from the word bespeak, meaning to ask for or order something. This has its roots in Savile Row, where a customer would speak for a measure of cloth. A bolt chosen by one customer was not available for anyone else until the entire suit had been cut out and assembled.
2007-02-25 09:01:28 · answer #2 · answered by GrahamH 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
bespoke means tailor made, for example you might want a new suit and you`d go to Saville Row in London and you`d be measured up, choose your cloth and design, and the tailor will make you a `bespoke' suit,
the word applies to many other items too, such as a piece of furniture made exactly to your requirements.
2007-02-25 10:55:42 · answer #3 · answered by simplynoidea 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bespoke means custom made - i.e. a product which is built to your own individual specifications
2007-02-25 09:00:07 · answer #4 · answered by dm300570 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
British. a. (of clothes) made to individual order; custom-made: a bespoke jacket.
b. making or selling such clothes: a bespoke tailor.
2007-02-25 08:58:31 · answer #5 · answered by Nick W 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you ask for it in a certain way. IE a Mans suit made to your design is bespoke
2007-02-25 08:59:55 · answer #6 · answered by doctordog1uk 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it normally means, made to your own requirements, ie a "bespoke suit" is made to measure in the requested fabric and style.
2007-02-25 08:57:41 · answer #7 · answered by nephtine 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
custom made tailored fit clothing visit Stylior for detail information
2016-02-08 17:23:02 · answer #8 · answered by santosh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Custom made or crafted
2007-02-25 09:39:57 · answer #9 · answered by nin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it means that something is made specifically for one purpose, sort of custom-made.
2007-02-25 08:58:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋