If Men Got Pregnant - Amazing Funny Facts
Maternity leave would last two years... With full pay.
There would be a cure for stretch marks.
Natural childbirth would become obsolete.
Morning sickness would rank as the nation's #1 health problem.
All methods of birth control would be 100% effective.
Children would be kept in the hospital until toilet trained.
Men would be eager to talk about commitment.
They wouldn't think twins were so cute.
Sons would have to be home from dates by 10:00 PM
Briefcases would be used as diaper bags.
Paternity suits would be a fashion line of clothes.
They'd stay in bed during the entire pregnancy.
Restaurants would include ice cream and pickles as main entrees.
Women would rule the world!!
Amazing Leather and Footwear Facts
AMAZING LEATHER LEATHER FACTS:
From the History
The primitive man, even more than 7000 years ago, made and used leather goods. He dried fresh skins in the sun, softened them by pounding in animal fats and brains, and preserved them by salting and smoking. Of course, the products were crude, made for protection than as fashion.
The Egyptians and Hebrews developed around 400 BC, the process of vegetable tanning that involved simple drying and curing techniques.
Under the Arabs during the Middle Ages, the art of leather making became quite sophisticated. Morocco and cordovan leathers were in great demand.
The ancient puppet theatre in the southern India used primarily leather dolls. The tradition continues even today.
Following the industrial revolution in Europe, power driven machines were introduced to perform operations such as splitting, fleshing, and dehairing. The chemical tannage were introduced towards the end of 19th century.
Evidence of shoemaking exists as early as 10,000 B.C.
Napoleon Bonaparte had his boots worn by servants to break them in before he wore them
The boots worn by Neil Armstrong for his walk on the moon in 1969 were jettisoned before returning to earth to prevent contamination
The original French version of the Cinderella story features a fur slipper instead of a glass one.
The confusion arose in the similarity of a French word for white fur (vair), which resembled the word for glass (verre).
Common Leathers
cattle, including calf and ox
sheep and lamb
goat and kid
equine animals, including horse, mule, and zebra
buffalo
pig and hog
aquatic animals as seal, walrus, whale, and alligator
The process
The hide, left to itself, would rather decompose than become leather. It is cured of such inclinations by a dehydrating process (air-drying, salting, or pickling with acids and salts) before being shipped to a tannery.
The hide has about 60 to 70 percent water and 30 to 35 percent protein (of which 85 percent is fibrous). Tanning displaces water from the hide's protein fibres and cements these fibres together. Tanning derives its name from tannic acid found in plants (vegetable tanning), mineral salts (mineral tanning) or in oil and fatty substances (oil tanning)
The tanned pelt is dried, dyed, oiled and greased to lubricate it and to enhance its softness, strength, and ability to shed water. The leather is further dried and reconditioned with damp sawdust to a uniform moisture content of 20 percent. It is then stretched and softened, and the grain surface is coated to give it additional resistance to abrasion, cracking, peeling, water, heat, and cold.
The leather is then ready to be fashioned into any of a multitude of products. These include shoes and boots, outer apparel, belts, upholstery materials, suede products, saddles, gloves, luggage and purses, and recreational equipment as well as such industrial items as buffing wheels and machine belts.
Thanks to webindia,leather industry section:
From the History
The primitive man, even more than 7000 years ago, made and used leather goods. He dried fresh skins in the sun, softened them by pounding in animal fats and brains, and preserved them by salting and smoking. Of course, the products were crude, made for protection than as fashion.
The Egyptians and Hebrews developed around 400 BC, the process of vegetable tanning that involved simple drying and curing techniques.
Under the Arabs during the Middle Ages, the art of leather making became quite sophisticated. Morocco and cordovan leathers were in great demand.
The ancient puppet theatre in the southern India used primarily leather dolls. The tradition continues even today.
Following the industrial revolution in Europe, power driven machines were introduced to perform operations such as splitting, fleshing, and dehairing. The chemical tannage were introduced towards the end of 19th century.
Evidence of shoemaking exists as early as 10,000 B.C.
Napoleon Bonaparte had his boots worn by servants to break them in before he wore them
The boots worn by Neil Armstrong for his walk on the moon in 1969 were jettisoned before returning to earth to prevent contamination
The original French version of the Cinderella story features a fur slipper instead of a glass one.
The confusion arose in the similarity of a French word for white fur (vair), which resembled the word for glass (verre).
Common Leathers
cattle, including calf and ox
sheep and lamb
goat and kid
equine animals, including horse, mule, and zebra
buffalo
pig and hog
aquatic animals as seal, walrus, whale, and alligator
The process
The hide, left to itself, would rather decompose than become leather. It is cured of such inclinations by a dehydrating process (air-drying, salting, or pickling with acids and salts) before being shipped to a tannery.
The hide has about 60 to 70 percent water and 30 to 35 percent protein (of which 85 percent is fibrous). Tanning displaces water from the hide's protein fibres and cements these fibres together. Tanning derives its name from tannic acid found in plants (vegetable tanning), mineral salts (mineral tanning) or in oil and fatty substances (oil tanning)
The tanned pelt is dried, dyed, oiled and greased to lubricate it and to enhance its softness, strength, and ability to shed water. The leather is further dried and reconditioned with damp sawdust to a uniform moisture content of 20 percent. It is then stretched and softened, and the grain surface is coated to give it additional resistance to abrasion, cracking, peeling, water, heat, and cold.
The leather is then ready to be fashioned into any of a multitude of products. These include shoes and boots, outer apparel, belts, upholstery materials, suede products, saddles, gloves, luggage and purses, and recreational equipment as well as such industrial items as buffing wheels and machine belts.
Thanks to webindia,leather industry section:
Fashion Brand Book by Uche Okonkwo
Prolific and gifted, Uche Okonkwo is one of the pioneer Business Strategy Consultants in the luxury industry. Recently, she launched her first hardcover book Luxury Fashion Branding - Trends, Tactics, Techniques.
Intriguing world of luxury and fashion requires in depth understanding and equally deft scripting to put across one's views to readers across the world.
Uche has done it all, while handling this business of luxury and fashion. Her book focusses on key areas like consumer behaviour, retailing tactics, branding and marketing strategies, e business, business modeling, the new luxury, customization strategies and best and worst industry practices.
An industry that changes by trend, Uche presents a study which by and large, unravels business intricacies explaining luxury fashion branding phenomenon, through the years.
Intrestingly, three important subjects covered in the book : Digital luxury, Le new luxe, Customize me!, seems most appropriate in terms of content and coverage, in addition to other relevant sections of the book.
Equipped with MBA from Brunel University, London, she is a Doctorate candidate at Ecole Superieur de Commerce, Rennes, France where she also guest lectures.
She is the Director and Co-Founder of Luxe E.t.c., the pioneer Business Management Consultancy company specialized in the Luxury industry and its affiliated sectors.
With extensive cross-sector experience in Luxury Goods Management, Strategy & Management Consultancy, Commercial Aviation and Travel, Telecommunications and Academics, she is also the Editor of online luxury business magazine - Luxe-Mag.Com and The Luxury Business Series, a collection of business texts on Luxury, being written by luxury industry experts.
Luxury Fashion Branding, has a Foreword by James Ogilvy, Publisher of Luxury Briefing Journal and one of the most respected Opinion Leaders in the Luxury Industry.
Intriguing world of luxury and fashion requires in depth understanding and equally deft scripting to put across one's views to readers across the world.
Uche has done it all, while handling this business of luxury and fashion. Her book focusses on key areas like consumer behaviour, retailing tactics, branding and marketing strategies, e business, business modeling, the new luxury, customization strategies and best and worst industry practices.
An industry that changes by trend, Uche presents a study which by and large, unravels business intricacies explaining luxury fashion branding phenomenon, through the years.
Intrestingly, three important subjects covered in the book : Digital luxury, Le new luxe, Customize me!, seems most appropriate in terms of content and coverage, in addition to other relevant sections of the book.
Equipped with MBA from Brunel University, London, she is a Doctorate candidate at Ecole Superieur de Commerce, Rennes, France where she also guest lectures.
She is the Director and Co-Founder of Luxe E.t.c., the pioneer Business Management Consultancy company specialized in the Luxury industry and its affiliated sectors.
With extensive cross-sector experience in Luxury Goods Management, Strategy & Management Consultancy, Commercial Aviation and Travel, Telecommunications and Academics, she is also the Editor of online luxury business magazine - Luxe-Mag.Com and The Luxury Business Series, a collection of business texts on Luxury, being written by luxury industry experts.
Luxury Fashion Branding, has a Foreword by James Ogilvy, Publisher of Luxury Briefing Journal and one of the most respected Opinion Leaders in the Luxury Industry.
Luxury Fashion Branding is published by Palgrave Macmillan (London, New York, Hong Kong) and is distributed worldwide through major bookstores.
For more information and to order to buy Book visit http://www.luxuryfashionbranding.com/
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