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30-527: The charity supports a network of parks, community managed green spaces and open spaces groups to carry out consultation, fundraise and oversee improvements. This includes help with choosing new play equipment, bespoke garden design and developing new areas, making accessible improvements and re- landscaping . BOST initiates and runs community gardening clubs, award small grants for local horticulture projects and organises hiring out parks and open spaces for celebratory public and private events. BOST has set up

60-435: A community garden resource centre with a pond and encourages people to grow their own food - vegetables , herbs , fruit trees and bushes - through 'edible projects', utilising raised-bed gardening and planting. They also provide informal horticultural training , landscape maintenance , garden maintenance , grounds maintenance and gardening work experience in the local parks, gardens and open spaces. Founded in 2000,

90-490: A general marketing and branding concept implying exclusivity and limited runs. Bespoke is derived from the verb bespeak , meaning to "speak for something". The particular meaning of the verb form is first cited from 1583 and given in the Oxford English Dictionary : "to speak for, to arrange for, engage beforehand: to 'order' (goods)." The adjective "bespoken" means "ordered, commissioned, arranged for" and

120-818: A new workhouse and for "making a carriage way from the … High Street, through the Greyhound Inn, into Queen Street, and for improving the passage from thence into Gravel Lane , leading towards the Black Friars Bridge Road, in the parish of Christ Church." In 1782 the Union Hall was opened as the Surrey Magistrates Court in the borough, the JPs having previously sat at the Town Hall in the High Street. The façade of

150-427: A pair of spectacles"). One French bespoke shirtmaker was said to offer 400 shades of white, to satisfy vendor-customer relationships and desire for custom-made items. The New York Times devoted an article to bespoke cocktails, which they described as "something devised on the spot to a customer's precise and sometimes peculiar specifications". In another article, The New York Times described bespoke perfumes' taking

180-461: Is first cited from 1607. Originally, the adjective bespoke described tailor-made suits and shoes. According to Collins English Dictionary , the term was generally British English in 2008. American English more commonly uses the word custom instead, as in custom-made, custom car , or custom motorcycle . Nevertheless, bespoke has seen increased usage in American English during

210-460: Is increasingly pressured and a rush. To enjoy the city in all its infinite variety means that our open spaces need as many of us as possible to look after and support them'. Located between Tower Bridge, Southwark , and Waterloo, Lambeth , districts of Central London , England , these areas have few parks and open spaces and BOST works to enhance and make sure that they meet the needs of local communities. Londoners, local workers and tourists use

240-594: Is located in Union Street off of Borough High Street in the London Borough of Southwark where also in the vicinity literary greats such as Chaucer , Shakespeare and Charles Dickens gained inspiration for their works. Historically the Duchess of Marlborough in 1919 decreed that 'Surplus land from an insanitary area between Borough High Street and Redcross Street should be used as a recreation ground'. The organisation

270-552: Is supported by a number of local and national charitable foundations serving the region, and several of the major London Livery Companies . It has projects in cooperation with the Tate Modern and other London organisations. Bespoke Bespoke ( / b i ˈ s p oʊ k / ) describes anything commissioned to a particular specification (altered or tailored to the customs, tastes, or usage of an individual purchaser). In contemporary usage, bespoke has become

300-451: The Savile Row tailors who use the word to describe custom handmade suits. Union Street, London Union Street is a major street in the London Borough of Southwark . It runs between Blackfriars Road to the west and Borough High Street to the east. Southwark Bridge Road crosses in the middle. The eastern part of the street was laid out under a 1774 Act passed for making

330-592: The "global communications boom" contributed to a "superset of English vocabulary"; another business writer explained that software companies in India were accustomed to adapting their language depending on the client, so that switching between bespoke software and custom software was the equivalent of switching between lift and elevator or queue and line . By 2008, the term was more often used to describe software, database and computer applications than suits, shirts or shoes. The BBC News Magazine wrote in 2008 that

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360-518: The "world of personalization to an entirely new level". A 2016 The New York Times article describes a satirical video about bespoke water and observed: "The B word has become an increasingly common branding lure employed by interior design companies, publishers, surgeons and pornographers. There are bespoke wines, bespoke software, bespoke vacations, bespoke barber shops, bespoke insurance plans, bespoke yoga, bespoke tattoos, even bespoke medical implants." A 2022 Saveur Magazine article described

390-426: The 19th century, most clothing was made to measure , or bespoke, whether made by professional tailors or dressmakers , or as often, at home. The same applied to many other types of goods. With the advent of industrialised ready to wear clothing, bespoke became largely restricted to the top end of the market, and is now normally considerably more expensive, at least in developed countries. At some point after that,

420-419: The 21st century. The word bespoke is most known for its "centuries-old relationship" with tailor-made suits , but the Oxford English Dictionary also ties the word to shoemaking in the mid-1800s. Although it is now used as an adjective, it was originally used as the past participle of bespeak . According to a spokesperson for Collins English Dictionary, it later came to mean to discuss , and then to

450-564: The Hall was retained on the new structure on the site in 2005. In 1813, Queen Street and Duke Street were renamed Union Street. In 1908 Charlotte Street, at the western end of Union Street, was also renamed to be part of the street yet it clearly has a dislocated junction with it, exacerbated by it starting under the railway viaduct. A fire at an oil and paint shop in Union Street in April 1885 resulted in

480-487: The adjective describing something that was discussed in advance , which is how it came to be associated with tailor-made apparel. The word was used as an adjective in A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke , the 1755 autobiography of the actress Charlotte Charke , which refers to The Beaux' Stratagem as "a bespoke play". After that, the adjective was generally associated with men's tailor-made suits. Before about

510-405: The bespoke drive was anti-tradition, and about a desire to be different rather than identify collectively with others. Newsweek described the word as "monstrously distorted, abused and otherwise mangled into near meaninglessness", saying that anything can now be labeled "bespoke". The same Newsweek writer used the word as a verb to describe ordering a custom-made pair of glasses ("bespeaking

540-707: The charitable work of BOST is based in Red Cross Garden, London's first pocket park, and an 1887 Victorian creation of Octavia Hill , the English social reformer. Hill also championed providing green and open spaces to people, and helped to save London's Hampstead Heath and Parliament Hill Fields from being built on. He was one of the three founders of the National Trust . Two key early supporters of BOST (particularly in inspiring London-based companies to contribute to and support their local open spaces) were Vicky Lawrence, who

570-402: The death of Alice Ayres , whose bravery in saving her three nieces captured the public imagination. Red Cross Burial Ground was a burial ground at the northeast corner of Union Street and Red Cross Way. The street was called Union Street because it marks the boundary between the two local parishes in the area. The Union Theatre is a leading fringe venue on the north side of the street. On

600-508: The following: Located just south from the famous farmers market at Borough Market , one of the largest and oldest wholesale and retail food market in Southwark , Central London , England . Red Cross Garden was laid out in 1887 and is a key element in what is considered to be one of Octavia Hill's finest environmental and social schemes. She wanted to create what she referred to as 'open air sitting rooms'. Three elements together improved

630-483: The humble guacamole as "...bespoke: Diners could make their guac mild, medium, or hot". The UK Savile Row Bespoke Association has requirements for a garment to use the term bespoke , but those requirements are not followed by some manufacturers. In 2008, the British Advertising Standards Agency allowed a company, Sartoriani, to use bespoke to describe its suits, causing a controversy with

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660-470: The lives of those living in squalid, wretched Southwark at the time - The Garden, The Hall, The Cottages . Across the road from The Old Vic theatre or a 1-minute walk from Waterloo station in London situated on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road . There are wildflowers , dragonflies hovering over the pond with seating and a separate cascading rock water feature . The Marlborough Sports Garden

690-406: The parks and community gardens each day. BOST spaces are open and free to explore and widely used for everyone and by people and organisations hosting outdoor events such as, community projects, fetes, festivals, parties, film hire, photo shoots, sports activities and tournaments, and corporate events. Bankside Open Spaces Trust (BOST) manages parks and gardens, conserving the spaces. BOST look after

720-804: The south side is Jerwood Space , an arts venue, located in the former Orange Street School. Other art galleries include the RKB Gallery , dedicated to artworks on paper, and the Union Gallery , a contemporary art gallery under the railway arches on the north side, that moved to Teesdale Road in February 2009. Public houses on the street include the Charles Dickens and the Lord Nelson, named after two famous Englishmen. Dickens lodged in Lant Street not far away as

750-519: The term bespoke at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office , with half of those having been filed only in the previous 18 months. The Wall Street Journal said that the term had started to proliferate in corporations and among investors a few years before that. A writer in The Independent said that consumers no longer wanted to "keep up with the Joneses", but wanted to set themselves apart, saying that

780-552: The word bespoke came to be applied to more than tailoring, although it is unclear exactly when. Mark-Evan Blackman of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York told The Wall Street Journal in 2012 that the "bespoke proliferation may be tied to young Hollywood types becoming enamored with custom suits about a decade ago". The Wall Street Journal article said that "language purists" were not happy, while suit makers said

810-403: The word had been "bastardized". In 1990, American writer William Safire questioned in a New York Times article what had become of "custom, a word fading from our fashion vocabulary in a blizzard of British usage". In a play on words, he wrote of the snob appeal of the word: "To be suitably trendy, bespeak to me of bespoke tailoring." Gentlemen's Quarterly magazine wrote that the word

840-554: The word had increasingly been used to describe things other than websites, suits and shoes—like cars and furniture. Some examples of usage of the word are: Deborah Tannen , a Georgetown University linguistics professor, told The New York Times that "Americans associate it with the British upper class", adding that the word for Americans tapped into "our individualism. We want everything made specially for us. Even when it comes to salad bars." As of 2012 , there were 39 applications using

870-543: Was "gaining in popularity", meaning "the opposite of off-the-rack". In its contemporary usage, it implies exclusivity, and is used as an aid in marketing and branding. A 2014 India Today article described bespoke as an emerging branding trend that marketers would need to embrace. A 2001 google search of "bespoke and software" produced 50,000 hits, many not in the UK or the US. The New York Times quoted an Indian tech director as saying

900-538: Was the first BOST Executive Director, having previously helped to set up the Community Chest Grant Scheme for local people in 1998, [1] and Norman Powell, a Co-Founder & Trustee of BOST. The former MP Simon Hughes who represented Bermondsey and Old Southwark for 32 years commented in his preface to the launch of BOST's June 2002 publication "In My Backyard - Growing a sense of place in Bankside" that 'Life

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