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Tourist sign

A tourist sign, often referred to as a brown sign, is a traffic sign whose purpose is to direct visitors to tourist destinations, such as historic buildings, tourist regions, caravan or camp sites, picnic areas, sporting facilities or museums. By ...

Tourist trolley

A tourist trolley, also called a road trolley, is a rubber-tired bus designed to resemble an old-style streetcar or tram, usually with false clerestory roof. The vehicles are usually fueled by diesel, or sometimes compressed natural gas. The name ...

Travel technology

Travel technology is the application of Information Technology or Information and Communications Technology in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry. Some forms of travel technology are flight tracking, trip planning through online travel ...

Travelers' diarrhea

Travelers diarrhea is a stomach and intestinal infection. TD is defined as the passage of unformed stool while traveling. It may be accompanied by abdominal cramps, nausea, fever, and bloating. Occasionally bloody diarrhea may occur. Most travele ...

Velvet season

Velvet season is a term for one of the most comfortable parts of the year for people to live in the subtropics, particularly in mediterranean climate conditions. During the velvet season, the weather is not as hot as it is in mid-summer months bu ...

Welcome sign

A welcome sign is a road sign at the border of a region that introduces or welcomes visitors to the region. Examples of welcome signs can be found near political borders, such as when entering a state, province, county, city, or town, and they ar ...

Airhead (subculture)

Airhead ", also known as Trixie ", basic bitch ", or simply basic ", is a slang term in American popular culture used to pejoratively describe middle class white women who are perceived to predominantly like mainstream products, trends, or music. ...

Body modification

Body modification is the deliberate altering of the human anatomy or human physical appearance. It is often done for aesthetics, sexual enhancement, rites of passage, religious beliefs, to display group membership or affiliation, in remembrance o ...

Coolhunting

Coolhunting is a neologism coined in the early 1990s referring to a new kind of marketing professionals who make observations and predictions in changes of new or existing "cool" cultural fads and trends. Coolhunting is also referred to as "trend ...

Counter-flows

Counter-flow is the movement of cultures from one place to another brought by mobile subjects that can have a positive or negative impact or effect on society. It is no longer from "the west to the rest", but a two-way movement. Counter-flows can ...

Cultural views on the navel

The cultural views of the navel vary significantly. In some cultures the navel is seen as sexually and culturally significant, and its exposure has been subject to a variety of cultural norms and taboos, based on concepts of modesty. The views, c ...

Diffusion (business)

Diffusion is the process by which a new idea or new product is accepted by the market. The rate of diffusion is the speed with which the new idea spreads from one consumer to the next. Adoption is similar to diffusion except that it deals with th ...

Indigo Era

The Indigo Era, or "Indigo economies", is a concept first publicized in early 2016 by international businessman Mikhail Fridman, the co-founder of LetterOne, an international investment business. He used the term to describe what he views as an e ...

Information Age

The Information Age is a historic period beginning in the 20th century and characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization to an economy primarily based upon information ...

Normcore

Normcore is a unisex fashion trend characterized by unpretentious, normal-looking clothing. Normcore fashion includes jeans, t-shirts, sweats, button-downs, underpants, socks, and sneakers. Clothing is considered to be normcore when it is both at ...

Passion gap

Passion gap or Cape Flats smile is a dental modification originating in Cape Flats, Cape Town, South Africa in which people deliberately remove the upper front teeth for fashion and status. The practice is popular among lower class Coloureds and ...

Peclers

Peclers is a trend consulting agency founded in 1970. With over 40 years of industry experience, Peclers consults with multiple brands and creative individuals in trend analysis, consumer reports, and brand strategies. The creative team at Pecler ...

PVC clothing

PVC clothing is shiny clothing made from the plastic polyvinyl chloride. PVC plastic is often called "vinyl" and this type of clothing is commonly known as "vinyl clothing". PVC is sometimes confused with the similarly shiny patent leather. The t ...

Radical chic

Radical chic is a term coined by journalist Tom Wolfe in his 1970 essay "Radical Chic: That Party at Lennys" to describe the alleged adoption and promotion of radical political causes by celebrities, socialites, and high society. In languages suc ...

Retro style

Retro style is a style that is imitative or consciously derivative of lifestyles, trends, or art forms from the historical past, including in music, modes, fashions, or attitudes. It may also be known as "vintage inspired".

Vintage (design)

Vintage design refers to an item of another era that holds important and recognizable value. This style can be applied to interior design, decor and other areas. Vintage design is popular and vintage items have risen in price. Outlets of vintage ...

Vs. (magazine)

Vs. is an international fashion and lifestyle magazine published twice per year. Featuring sleek design, luxury fashion stories, editorial edge, and large format, glossy, print size, Vs. was founded by Jakob F. Stubkjær and Vibe Dabelsteen in 200 ...

WGSN (trend forecasting)

WGSN is a trend forecasting company of parent organisation Ascential. WGSN was founded in 1998 in West London by brothers Julian and Marc Worth. Emap, a business-to-business publisher and exhibitions company, bought the company in October 2005 fo ...

Yoruba tribal marks

The Yoruba tribal marks are scarifications which are specific identification and beautification marks designed on the face or body of the Yoruba people. The tribal marks are part of the Yoruba culture and are usually inscribed on the body by burn ...

2010 Arab Capital of Culture

The 2010 Arab Capital of Culture was chosen to be Doha, Qatar. The Arab Capital of Culture is an initiative undertaken by UNESCO, under the Cultural Capitals Program to promote and celebrate Arab culture and encourage cooperation in the Arab regi ...

Alkap

Alkap is a form of Bengali folk performance popular in the districts of Murshidabad, Malda and Birbhum in West Bengal and Chapai Nawabganj, Randajshahi in Bangladesh. It has also spread to the adjoining areas of Jharkhand and Bihar such as Dumka ...

Arm and hammer

The arm and hammer is a symbol consisting of a muscular arm holding a hammer. Used in ancient times as a symbol of the god Vulcan, it came to be known as a symbol of industry, for example blacksmithing and gold-beating. It has been used as a symb ...

Bashu culture

Bashu culture, sometimes also named Chongqing-Sichuan culture, refers to the culture of Sichuan province and Chongqing city, China and the surrounding areas, including parts of the neighboring provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, since the Han Chines ...

Beni ʿAmir

Beni ʿAmir is a Moroccan tribe of Hilali-Arab descent, who settled in Morocco in the 12th century. The tribe is part of the Tadla confederacy.

Black and red ware culture

The black and red ware culture is a late Bronze Age Indian and early Iron Age Indian archaeological culture, associated with the Indus Valley Civilisation and South India. In the Western Ganges plain western Uttar Pradesh it is dated to c. 1450-1 ...

Blackout Wednesday

Blackout Wednesday is a pejorative term for the night before the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. It is associated with binge drinking since very few people work on Thanksgiving, and most university students are home to celebrate the Th ...

Blood compact

Blood compact was an ancient ritual in the Philippines intended to seal a friendship or treaty, or to validate an agreement. The contracting parties would cut their wrists and pour their blood into a cup filled with liquid, such as wine, and drin ...

Blue rinse

A blue rinse is a dilute hair dye used to reduce the yellowed appearance of grey or white hair. Benjamin Netanyahu is a famous politician who uses this style The blue rinse gained popularity after Jean Harlows appearance in the 1930 film, Hells A ...

Bobby soxer (music)

Bobby soxer is term for a very zealous fan of 1940s traditional pop music, in particular that of singer Frank Sinatra. Bobby soxers were usually teenage girls in high schools and colleges, who got their name from the bobby socks that they wore. T ...

Bobo (socio-economic group)

Bobo is a portmanteau word used to describe the socio-economic bourgeois-bohemian group in France, the French analogue to the English notion of the "champagne socialist". The term is used extensively in Paris, France, where it originates. The geo ...

Body hopping

Body hopping is the fictional ability and desire to possess people in quick succession. A body hopper can transfer quickly from one physical body to another physical body with little or no resistance and few conditions on moving on to a new body, ...

Bomb Culture

Bomb Culture is a book by Jeff Nuttall about the counter-culture in London, which was first published in 1968. It reflected the influence of the threat of nuclear war, while describing the importance of pop music like the Beatles and countercultu ...

Brisbane International Boat Show

The Brisbane International Boat Show is the largest indoor only boat show in the Southern Hemisphere, the Brisbane International Boat Show is the flagship event of Marine Queensland. The first show was held in 1961. The show was last held at Bris ...

William Burdett-Coutts (promoter)

William Burdett-Coutts is the founder and director of theatre and comedy promotion company Assembly, one of the major venue operators at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the worlds largest arts festival. He was born in Zimbabwe, and began his caree ...

Čechie

Čechie is the personification of the Czech nation, which was used in the 19th century as reaction on personification of competing nationalism represented by Germania or Austria.

Charlie Noble

Charlie Noble is the smoke stack on a ships galley. Around 1850, a British merchant service captain, Charles Noble, upon discovering that the stack of his ships galley was made of copper, ordered that it be kept bright. From then onwards the ship ...

Coloured hat

In Tibetan Buddhist cultures, coloured hats are sometimes used to symbolise attitudes towards various different abstract concepts. Several sects are distinguished by the colour of their hats: Yellow Hat – the Gelug sect Black Hat – the Karma Kagy ...

Come Home Year

Come Home Year is a Canadian civic event for many towns that encourages a return to home town. Due to significant economic migration away from many of the small rural towns these events draw many generations to celebrate. In 2000, there was a pro ...

Commercial Alert

Commercial Alert is a project of Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy non-profit organization. Commercial Alert opposes advertising to children and the commercialization of culture, education, and government. It works on issues such as commerciali ...

Coorie

Coorie is a Scots word meaning "to stoop, bend, cringe, crouch for protection"and "to snuggle, nestle". It has been appropriated and positioned as a lifestyle trend, similar to the Scandinavian concept of hygge, which involves ideas such as cosin ...

Creole Renaissance

The Creole Renaissance is a movement which established Creole as legitimate literary language, started in large part by authors like Felix Morisseau-Leroy, who struggled successfully to make Haitian Creole the literary, educational, and official ...

Crescent Arts Centre

The Crescent Arts Centre is an arts centre based in a Victorian-era listed building in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1980, and the building was extensively refurbished between 2008 and 2010. The Centre hosts a wide range of arts an ...

Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington

The Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington works to increase appreciation, support, and resources for arts and culture in the Greater Washington DC region, United States. With over 300 member organizations, the CAGW programming includes: Profess ...

Cultural depictions of Anne, Queen of Great Britain

Anne, Queen of Great Britain, is depicted in novels, film and television. Anne is played by Margaret Tyzack in the 1969 BBC television serial The First Churchills. Elizabeth Spriggs portrayed her in the 2004 BBC drama documentary Wren: The Man Wh ...

Cultural encoding

Cultural encoding is a process in which a website or related node is "encoded" with the language, symbols, or representative styles of particular culture or subculture. "Encoding" refers to the digital processes that make the representative cultu ...