Whois & Analysis for houseofcb.com

House of CB is a women's fashion retailer founded by Conna Walker in 2000, and known for its figure-hugging clothing.

A bandage dress is a tight-fitting "bodycon" dress that is (or appears to be) made from multiple thin strips of cloth sewn together, with the individual strips shaped like bandages.

The bandage dress was made popular by the designer Hervé Léger.

Jewellery or jewelry consists of small decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets.

Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes, and the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example.

For many centuries metal, often combined with gemstones, has been the normal material for jewellery, but other materials such as shells and other plant materials may be used.

It is one of the oldest type of archaeological artefact – with 100,000-year-old beads made from Nassarius shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery.

The basic forms of jewellery vary between cultures but are often extremely long-lived; in European cultures the most common forms of jewellery listed above have persisted since ancient times, while other forms such as adornments for the nose or ankle, important in other cultures, are much less common.

Historically, the most widespread influence on jewellery in terms of design and style have come from Asia.

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain, London has been a major settlement for two millennia.

It was founded by the Romans, who named it Londinium.

London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its medieval boundaries.

Since at least the 19th century, "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which today largely makes up Greater London, governed by the Mayor of London and the London Assembly.

Chic, meaning "stylish" or "smart", is an element of fashion.

Etymology.

is a French word, established in English since at least the 1870s.

Early references in English dictionaries classified it as slang and New Zealand-born lexicographer Eric Partridge noted, with reference to its colloquial meaning, that it was "not so used in Fr[ench]." Gustave Flaubert notes in Madame Bovary (published in 1856) that "chicard" (one who is chic) is then Parisian very current slang for "classy" noting, perhaps derisively, perhaps not, that it was bourgeoisie.

There is a similar word in German, , with a meaning similar to chic, which may be the origin of the word in French; another theory links chic to the word .

Although the French pronunciation (shēk or "sheek") is now virtually standard and was that given by Fowler, chic was often rendered in the anglicised form of "chick".