They eagerly try on heart-shaped sunglasses, avocado-patterned socks and other fripperies.
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Offices have traditionally set aside just 3-4% of floor space for such fripperies.
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The news media is stream of fripperies: state fairs, prize fish, and players announcing presidential runs.
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Now we have grown weary of such fripperies, and so our adulation has been turned to ash.
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No, no, as fond as I am of her, we mustn't give in to such feminine fripperies!
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A section "Bending the Rules" features the gleaming fripperies of an exciting if quite expensive night life.
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Mr. Sullivan's confident production doesn't deny melodrama, but it prefers psychological and social detail over Southern gothic fripperies.
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For years, deriding the fripperies of social media has practically become a national pastime, an easy piece of snobbery.
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Her language made clear how hard it still is, in her world, to see Victorian-style fripperies as legitimate.
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The cash was funnelled through shell companies around the world and frittered away on yachts, artworks, diamonds and other fripperies.
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In the fat times, managers could be careless with money; staff complained about spending on fripperies, such as making surroundings more pleasant.
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He combined verve, wit and a discriminating eye, whether he was profiling the fashion world's venerable legends or reporting on its latest fripperies.
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Two years later, amid disappointing ticket sales, Norwegian spent $50m ripping out all the Chinese fripperies and moved the ship to Alaskan fjords.
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Instead, it spends its time appealing to urban special interest groups with "identity politics," such politically correct fripperies as multigender bathrooms and microaggressions.
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Thanks to the Erie Canal, New York was booming in 1825 when Stewart invested his small inheritance in lace and other fripperies for women's clothing.
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It's this kind of signature that was missing from Prabal Gurung's uptown amalgamation of snazzy white tuxedos, leopard print, diva dresses draped on the hip, explosive peplums and feather fripperies.
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Don't even ask if you can sit down in some of these — that's what the understated columns with ostrich-feather cuffs are for, the cocktail mini-fripperies covered in crystal.
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Technocracies are often said to be more efficient than democracies at getting things done because they can focus on things that really matter rather than waste time on such fripperies as elections.
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And despite the ebbs and flows of footwear trends, chunky, heeled, lace-up boots never seem to fall out of favor, no matter if all the other shoe trends are composed of delicate, single-soled fripperies.
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Purchases of fripperies such as football clubs and hotels have been curbed by the Chinese authorities, but investment continues to flow into technology and infrastructure, notes James Zhan of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
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He devotes too much space to subjects that catch his imagination, and says too little about an important part of Britain's decadence: the way its obsession with the fripperies of aristocratic life diverted its attention from industry and commerce.
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Her job is to buy or borrow dresses, leather pants, and essential fripperies for a celebrity named Kyra (Nora von Waldstätten), whose purpose in life, other than to be seen carrying two-thousand-dollar handbags, is never quite defined.
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So while Woz might talk disparaging about the 'jewelry market' — given his geek pedigree it is entirely his right to be dismissive of such fripperies — the chunky price-tags on those fancy Apple bracelets should not be sniffed at as a strategy for Cupertino to eke more mileage out of its hardware business model.
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But as evident through Pyer Moss' collections, you can acknowledge the bitter and the sweet and have both the fists and the fripperies, all while creating something people will want to buy not only because the clothes are good, but because the message behind it is an extension of their inner thoughts — demons and all.
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The Roches is the 1979 eponymous debut trio album by The Roches, produced by Robert Fripp, who also plays guitar and Fripperies (a variation of his Frippertronics). Also playing on the album are Tony Levin and Jimmy Maelen of King Crimson and Peter Gabriel fame.
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"She was to become increasingly obsessed with fripperies and titles … She took to calling herself 'Professor Gilliatt'."Osborne, p. 240 Strains in the marriage, exacerbated by Gilliatt's alcoholism and what Osborne felt was malignant behaviour, led to Osborne conducting an affair with Jill Bennett, soon followed by their marriage.
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Pallis, Ted. Information Circular: New Jersey Brownstone (Trenton, New Jersey: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection — New Jersey Geological and Water Survey, 2012). Retrieved September 6, 2013. In his design for the Chapel, Hardenbergh attempted a "restrained approach to Gothic architecture" that refrained from the excesses ("fripperies") of typical examples of Victorian Gothic.
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Craig instituted a novel set of rules to raise morale, but journalists and former player Dick Whitington derided it as "Anglicised fripperies", while Jack Fingleton said that Craig was "much too callow in years and experience to lead a team abroad." Some players remained resentful of Craig's dubious elevation but appreciated that he had not promoted himself and that he was fair and open to input from teammates. Craig made a good start to the tour in two warm-up matches against Rhodesia, scoring a century in each match.
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Saliha was influential in the matters of the palace and was a patroness of art in the era known as the Tulip era. The rabble-rouser Patrona Halil, though he was raiding high at the time, thought it necessary to have an interview with both Saliha, and Beşir Agha. Soon after Saliha was installed in the Queen mother's suite in Topkapı Palace, the Venetian bailo, Angelo Emo, sent her twenty four robes, along with perfumes, mirrors, and other feminine fripperies. Her son ordered the pavilion "Feraḥfezā" (Pleasure Enhancing) to be built for her at Beylerbeyi.
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The track, much like most of Channel Orange, tells a story about seeming alienation, while also making an argument for the ways in which alienation is humorous, pathetic and at times tender. Ocean's humor is used as a veil for frustration and regret, using irony to pinpoint the absurdity in things. The composition presents a struggle by Ocean to avoid the fripperies of wealth, and serves as a "haunting meditation" on how money makes living well possible, while also noting the downsides it offers. The track has drawn comparisons to the style of 808s & Heartbreak, a studio album by rapper Kanye West noted for its jarring use of auto-tune.
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Molly dancing is most associated with Plough Monday, the first Monday after Epiphany. Tradition has it that as a way of filling the gap between Christmas and the start of the spring ploughing season, the ploughboys would tour around the village landowners, offering to dance for money. Those who refused would be penalised in various ways (see Trick or treat) including having a furrow ploughed across the offender's lawn. The dancers, wishing to gain employment from those same landowners shortly afterwards, would attempt to conceal their identities by blacking their faces with soot and dressing up in a modified version of their Sunday best, typically black garments adorned with coloured scarves and other fripperies.
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As part of the mass evacuation of children in the early months of World War II, teenage Mary O'Rane is billeted with Mrs Agatha ('Aggie') Voray in an unthreatened area in the north of England. Mary soon discovers that, behind her respectable front, Mrs Voray forces her evacuee charges (five in all) to live in squalor and semi-starvation while spending the money intended for their upkeep on alcohol and personal fripperies. Yet when Mary is visited by her father, Mrs Voray easily convinces him that Mary's allegations are groundless; to Mary's horror, he ends his visit by accompanying Mrs Voray on a pub crawl. Mary's young schoolteacher, Judith Drave, takes her concerns about the children's welfare to the local authorities but is ignored.
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Photograph of Cixi The mainstream view of Empress Dowager Cixi as a devious despot who contributed in no small part to China's slide into corruption, anarchy, and revolution is subject to nuance. Cixi used her power to accumulate vast quantities of money, bullion, antiques and jewelry, using the revenues of the state as her own.Edward Behr, The Last Emperor, 1987, p. 51 The long-time China journalist Jasper Becker recalled that "every visitor to the Summer Palace is shown the beautiful lakeside pavilion in the shape of an elegant marble pleasure boat and told how Cixi spent funds destined for the imperial navy on such extravagant fripperies—which ultimately led to Japan's victory over China in 1895 and the loss of Taiwan".
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Web blog Considering the enormous amount of money paid, it is not known whether this applied for styling her own hair or her wigs or both. Also it is not known how many employees Beaulard had in his shop. It is known that besides Rose Bertin, Le sieur Beaulard was among the following three top fashion merchants alongside Madame Eloffe and Mademoiselle Alexandre in the 1770s. Beaulard was praised as "a modiste without parallel, the creator and the poet ... because of his myriad inventions and delicious names for fripperies". As the coiffures got very high during the 1770s, Beaulard invented the coiffure à la grand-mére, a mechanical coiffure which could be lowered as much as one foot (30 cm) by touching a spring.
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He worked in social care in the voluntary sector in south London and is now based at the Centre for Welfare Reform in Sheffield. In Control worked chiefly with people with learning difficulties, but he has since developed his ideas in respect of personal health budgets a concept which he claims to have invented. He countered accusations that public health budgets were wasting National Health Service money on fripperies like horse riding, art classes, massage, and a summer house by saying that the whole point was to spend money in less conventional ways. He argues that personalisation is "consistent with a social work based on social justice", though his approach has been criticised as "consistent with a neoliberal social and economic agenda".
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In Brighton's earliest days as a resort, these privately owned facilities functioned as multi-purpose "informal meeting places" where visitors could "read, chat, listen to music, buy fripperies or gamble". Visitors would pay a subscription to become a member of the library for the season, and would write their names in a visitors' book. By doing so they would inform other visitors of their presence in Brighton, the length of their stay and where they were staying, facilitating social interaction. By the 1760s, Brighton's Master of Ceremonies also consulted the visitors' books from the various libraries to find out who was staying in the town and make contact with them. From the 1770s, when speculators built permanent theatres in the town, the libraries also sold tickets for performances, for which they received a commission.
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Dwight Garner, in a review for The New York Times, wrote "Power can go overboard on the grungy poetics ... and she clutters up her story with the kind of fripperies ... that felt dated 5 or 10 years ago." but also called Crawling at Night "the work of a formidable young writer" and compared Power's writing to Mary Gaitskill and Denis Johnson. A Guardian review wrote "Power's writing is stellar, her sentences popping like fireworks into gorgeous explosions of evocation, visceral, crisp and unexpected. A man with her talent might use it to call attention to his skilfulness, but Power's pyrotechnics never takes you outside the story." Crawling at Night has also been reviewed by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, It was nominated for a 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was a 2001 New York Times notable book, and appeared on the Orange Award longlist.
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