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Chapter: 12th Textiles and Dress Designing : Chapter 11 : Home Made, Tailor Made and Readymade Garments

Boutiques

The word boutique has become more popular these days but it started as concept stores.

Boutiques

The word boutique has become more popular these days but it started as concept stores. These places provide recent fashion garments, best suited for all occasions. Today many of the celebrities go to boutiques to select their dresses.

 

What are Boutiques?

Boutique is a small shop selling fashionable clothes or accessories. It is also know as a business serving a sophisticated or specialized clientele. The term “boutique” and also “designer” refer (with some differences) to both goods and services which are containing some element that is claimed to justify an extremely high price, is known as boutique pricing. Boutique has various types of fabrics which one can select, match to his/her look and design in a garment. It also has semi stitched or full stitched ready to wear a fashionable garments. An individual could select them and alter it, if needed to provide good fit.


 

History of Boutiques

In the late 1990s, some European retail traders developed the idea of tailoring a shop towards a lifestyle theme, in what they called “concept stores” which specialized in cross-selling without using separate departments. One of the first concept stores was 10 Corso Como in Milan, Italy, founded in 1990, followed by Colette in Paris and Quartier 206 in Berlin. Several well-known American chains such as Tiffany and Co., Urban Outfitters, Dash, and The Gap, Australian chain Billabong and, though less common, Lord and Taylor, adapted to the concept store trend after 2000.

 

Merits of Boutiques

·               Specialization in apparel selection and design.

·               Own price advantage and expand clothing display scope.

·               Improve clothing enterprises by quick response ability.

·               Provide  more  promotion  activities thereby meeting consumers personalized demands.

 

Demerits of Boutiques

·               Lack of large variety in design

·               Logistics and distribution problems

·               Quality and label problems

·               Cannot cater to needs of lower income




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