October 3, 2014
Omersa Ottomans | Put Your Feet Up
but in the mid-century the store (and really the brand at large) began to shift away from outdoor pursuits towards home goods as a way of courting a younger audience that had no interest in A&F’s hunting heritage. It was around this time that they introduced Omersa’s leather ottomans to the shop. Abercrombie & Fitch was an Omersa stockist from the sixties through the eighties, but the brand’s story starts back in 1927, when “Old Bill,” a luggage maker for Liberty of London crafted a pig shaped footrest from his leftover pigskin.| A Continuous Lean.
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Ah the Ottoman. As a pig! And a nice place to place your feet. if only people knew the history of that word in today's very sensitive culture. They might be possibly offended, but not. Probably.
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at October 4, 2014 7:30 AM
The Ottoman Empire (/ˈɒtəmən/; Ottoman Turkish: دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه, Devlet-i Aliyye-i Osmâniyye, Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu), also historically referred to as the Turkish Empire or Turkey, was an empire founded by Oghuz Turks under Osman Bey in north-western Anatolia in 1299. With the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed II in 1453, the Ottoman state was transformed into an empire.
My ancestors knew how to deal with Turks. Vlad Tepes spoke to Muslims in a language they could understand.
Posted by: chasmatic at October 5, 2014 6:29 AM