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Bespoke
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Bespoke is a usually British English term for tailored clothing made at a customer's behest, and exactly to the customer's specification. Bespoke clothing is created without use of a pre-existing pattern, differentiating it from made to measure, which alters a standard-sized pattern to fit the customer.
"Bespoke" comes from the word bespeak, meaning to ask for or order something. This has its roots in Savile Row, where a customer would speak for a measure of cloth. A bolt chosen by one customer was not available for anyone else until the entire suit had been cut out and assembled.
Kate Norton. Savile Row Never Goes Out of Style. BusinessWeek.
The term can also refer to
- Furniture.
- Elements of interior design (i.e. closets).
- Software, which means it is software written in-house, designed specifically and customised for a single company and/or task.
- Customisation of a particular product or service (i.e. envelopes)
- Structured finance products (e.g. collateralized debt obligations)