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Ready-to-wear clothing display of a U.S. Walmart department retailer in 2007. Ready-to-wear (RTW) – also called prêt-à-porter, or off-the-rack or off-the-peg in casual use – is the term for garments sold in finished condition in standardized sizes, as distinct from made-to-measure or bespoke clothing tailored to a particular person's frame.
Prêt-à-Porter holds a 24% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 25 reviews, with an average rating of 4.75/10. [20] Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and thought it "should have gone further and been meaner; too many of [Altman's] jokes are generic slapstick, instead of being aimed squarely at industry's targets."
Jeffrey Hyman [7] founded the first Pret a Manger in London on 21 October 1983. [8] The first shop opened in Hampstead, Camden, in 1984. [9] [10] The name Prêt à Manger was originally based on prêt-à-porter, French for "ready-to-wear clothing".
The term prêt-à-porter was born in the 1960s, reacting against the traditional notions of fashion and garment-making process, satisfying the needs of pop culture and mass media. Paris acts as the center of the fashion industry and holds the name of global fashion capital.
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prêt-à-porter lit. "ready to wear"; clothing off the shelf, in contrast to haute couture. prie-dieu lit. "pray [to] God"; a type of prayer desk. prix fixe lit. "fixed price"; a menu on which multi-course meals with only a few choices are charged at a fixed price. protégé (fem. protégée)
In other cases the term may be calqued (loan translated) at some stage, such as English ready-to-wear → French prêt-à-porter (1951) → English prêt-à-porter (1957). [1] In some cases the borrowing process can be more complicated and the words might move through different languages before coming back to the originating language.
Daniel Hechter (born 30 July 1938) is a French-Belgian fashion designer who is sometimes referred to as the inventor of ready-to-wear (prêt-à-porter). He is also known for being the president of Paris Saint-Germain F.C. from 1974 to 1978, having designed the club's famous home shirt.