Clothes-e-funda

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -Mark Twain.. ……So, we think its time we came with some garment facts… Your clothes also cry for attention!!! Dry cleaned garments last longer : Accumulations of perspiration, grit, and dust particles can shorten the life of your garment. Pressing a soiled garment can permanently set stains which may not be visible to the eye, yet cause permanent damage. Delaying dry cleaning after a garment has been stained can also cause the stain to become permanently set.

Designer Labels Aren't Always the Best Many fashion designers sell the use of their name to any manufacturer who pays the price. The extra cost for their name is then passed along to you without any gain in quality.

Fading occurs when a fabric is exposed to sunlight, artificial
light, or even atmospheric gases. The color loss is very gradual and often goes undetected because the fabric is gathering soil at the same time. Delicate Silks are subject to color loss and dye bleeding. This may occur in normal wear or during stain removal or from exposure to sunlight or even artificial light.

Perspiration will degrade silk; and perfumes and deodorants will affect the fabric color. Never launder whites with other color garments or in an overcrowded washing machine. Never launder or dry clean white garments that are part of a set unless all parts of the set are processed together. It could result in different shades in parts of the set!!!!
Wash away to glory, guys……!!!!

Burn-e-funda

Did you know…….. At 40 deg Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching T.V. You must be wondering why that ‘lucky’ person across the table from you doesn’t get fat from all that junk food. Well here is the answer: Metabolic Rate is the rate at which the body burns up calories. A body that consumes 2500 calories a day, and burns 2500 calories a day will stay at the same weight. A body consuming 2500 calories daily but burning only 2000 will gain weight at the rate
of about 1lb a week.
The trick is to keep the ‘keep moving’ message in mind. Write the word ‘move’ on post-it notes and put them in places you’ll notice them when you’re sitting still. Then, take every opportunity to move – here are some simple ideas for burning calories:
Tap your feet
Swing your legs
Drum your fingers
Stand up and stretch
Move your head from side to side
Change position
Wriggle and fidget
Pace up and down
Don’t use the internal phone – go in person
Use the upstairs loo
Park in the furthest corner of the car park
Stand up when you’re on the phone
Clench and release your muscles
SO KEEP ON BURNING……………..

Groom Cake

Heard about Groom cake….???.

In the west, couples eat their wedding cake after year…..!!!???!!..yess the same cake..

During the cutting of the cake, the bride holds the knife in her right hand and the groom's hand closes over top of the bride's -- then together the couple cuts the first slice… The top layer of a wedding cake, known as the groom's cake, traditionally is a fruit cake.

That way it will save until the first anniversary……..The tradition originates from the thought that if a cake can last a year, the marriage is bound to be a long one. And indeed, your cake, if frozen correctly, can last a year and taste as good as the day it was baked.

The groom's cake is usually a gift from the bride to the groom. It is traditionally a dark cake (traditionally fruitcake but mostly chocolate now) which can be either a separate cake or a layer of the bride's cake. There is also a custom of keeping the top tier of your cake for the christening party for your first-born? !!! It dates from the days when first baby came along just over nine months after the wedding. Now…how do they do it…..the cake is put it in a cool larder, which a lot of old houses have, pickle it in brandy or some other alcohol and wrap it up in brown paper and string. It is turned occasionally…and improves with keeping, like fine wine….

Spectacles

Nobody knows who invented spectacles

Roman tragedian Seneca is said to have read "all the books in Rome" by peering through a glass globe of water. A thousand years later, presbyopic monks used segments of glass spheres that could be laid against reading material to magnify the letters, basically a magnifying glass, called a "reading stone." Venetian glass blowers, who had learned how to produce glass for reading stones, later constructed lenses that could be held in a frame in front of the eyes instead of directly on the reading material.

The first mention of actual glasses is found in a 1289 manuscript when a member of the Popozo family wrote: "I am so debilitated by age that without the glasses known as spectacles, I would no longer be able to read or write." In 1306, a monk of Pisa mentioned in a sermon: "It is not yet 20 years since the art of making spectacles, one of the most useful arts on earth, was discovered." But nobody mentioned the inventor... except those who claimed to have invented it, putting the time to around 1285 (although some sources claim the date to be 1269).

The patron saint of spectacle makers is the religious teacher Sofronius Eusebius Hieronymus, who lived from 340 to 420 AD. On numerous paintings he is portrayed with a lion, a skull and a pair of glasses. It actually is true that eating carrots can help you see better. Carrots contain Vitamin A, which feeds the chemicals that the eye shafts and cones are made of. The shafts capture black and white vision. The cones capture colour images.

The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colours. There currently is no machine that can achieve this remarkable feat.

Now we dint need colored lens for that now… did we…