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In this article it tells us what is Omnichannel selling, how it is being uses and the advantages and disadvantages of using this multichannel.

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Omnichannel. You've probably heard and read this buzzword many times. In your sales meetings, on your favorite marketing blog. Occasionally, you might even drop the word yourself.

But when the word is everywhere, it can get confusing what people actually mean by it.

In this blog post we'll answer the question 'what is omnichannel?' once and for all.

And explain the difference between omnichannel, multichannel and single channel commerce.

Find out what omnichannel means for your business today - and in the future.

What is Omnichannel Commerce?

Omni-channel retail (or omnichannel commerce) is a multichannel approach to sales that focus on providing seamless customer experience whether the client is shopping online from a mobile device, a laptop or in a brick-and-mortar store.

According to Harvard Business Review, 73 percent of all customers use multiple channels during their purchase journey. Only when the customer has gathered as much information as possible from a variety of sources to support their purchase decision, will they decide to buy from a retailer.

Omnichannel operations focus on the entire customer experience- not the customer's individual experiences on different channels.

What is The Difference Between Omnichannel and Multichannel?

Let's break the terms down one by one:

Single-channel commerce means you're selling your product via one sales channel only. This could be your brick-and-mortar store, your web shop or an online marketplace like eBay. This alone can work perfectly well. But, if you want to give your customers a richer experience with your brand, it's wise to look into additional channels where you can sell your product.

Multichannel commerce sells your product to your customers on different channels, both online and offline. You interact with your customer via social media, by phone and in your physical store. Your online presence is on point and your customers know where to find you. Multichannel is already a great strategy to get people engaging with your brand.

Omnichannel commerce takes place on multiple channels too, like the multichannel commerce strategy. Without multichannel, there's no omnichannel. The big difference is that omnichannel commerce connects all channels. This means your customer has a seamless experience across all platforms.

Now, let's see what omnichannel commerce can do for your business.
[Omnichannel Commerce Benefit #1]: Better Customer Experience
What do your customers expect? Number one on the list is a unified experience.

According to UC Today, 9 out of 10 consumers want an omnichannel experience with seamless service between communication methods.

As the number of touchpoints is increasing, so is the need for a seamless integration from one touchpoint to another.

Whether it's a social ad, an email newsletter, a mobile push notification, a conversion with your chatbot or a face-to-face chat with your store staff.

By breaking down the walls between the channels in a business, the consumer is empowered to interact with a company in a way that feels natural to them.

[Omnichannel Commerce Benefit #2]: Increase in sales and traffic

Making your sales strategy omnichannel-proof isn't that simple. But it'll definitely be worth your time and money.

A study of 46,000 shoppers shows that omnichannel customers spend more money than single-channel customers.

And with every additional channel they used, the omnichannel shoppers spent more money in the store.

Customers who used 4+ channels spent an average 9% more in the store compared to those who used just one single channel.

[Omnichannel Commerce Benefit #3]: Boosted Customer Loyalty

Not only do omnichannel customers spend more, they're also more loyal to your brand.

The same study shows that within 6 months after an omnichannel shopping experience, these customers had logged 23% more repeat shopping trips to the retailer's stores.

They were also more likely to recommend the brand to family and friends than those who used a single channel.

With an engaging brand story, you can stop pushing discount coupons, mid-sale campaigns and other traditional marketing tricks. Focus on customer loyalty and your brand will be safe.

This means that an omnichannel strategy will not only increase sales, it will also improve your customer loyalty. Sounds good, right?

[Omnichannel Commerce Benefit #4]: Better Data Collection

Retailers who are able to track their customer over different channels can serve their consumers better with more personalized experience.

Omnichannel approach allows business to gain insights on how to create content and offers that will encourage their customers engage themselves in shopping more - not only online but also at the physical stores.

Personalization in Omnichannel Commerce

Your customers expect a personalized experience at every channel and touchpoint.

Creating an integrated, personalized, satisfying omnichannel customer journey is not easy.

According to Target Marketing, marketers do not feel overwhelmed by any aspect of the omnichannel experience. But they lack the cross-platform data, customer recognition capabilities, and core technology to create the omnichannel experiences demanded by today's customer journey.

They basically need a digital experience platform (DXP) that enables customer data capturing and gives a unified 360 degree view of the customer to create hyper-personalized customer experiences. Something that companies today need more than ever.

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Changing your single-channel strategy, from web-only or store-only, to a multichannel or even omnichannel experience takes a lot of time, effort and resources.

But it will be worth it.
Here are 5 high-level steps to start off a channel strategy that works for your brand:
Get to know your customer: Don't make assumptions. Research your target audience's interests, behavior and needs. Ask them questions, invite customer feedback and leverage social media and social listening tools.

Select the right channels: Find out where your customers are and what they're doing

Choose a clear purpose per channel: One channel mainly for interaction, the other for news updates and so on

Connect all channels: This is the hard part and only works if you execute it perfectly (omnichannel only). You'll need the right technology to follow your customer across all touchpoints: from reading reviews on your website, seeing social ads, window shopping at an online marketplace to finally purchasing at your physical store.

Maintain your channels: There's no time for leaning back, keep on testing and improving your strategy. Document these touchpoints well to serve your customers best. This way, you'll create a loyal customer who keeps coming back for more.

Web-only brands are now investing in physical stores.

Take Amazon, which opened their first brick-and-mortar store in Seattle in 2015 and is expanding rapidly ever since with over 460 stores in the US, Canada and the UK. It's clear that the Amazon HQ understands that the future of shopping is connected.

And of course, mobile apps are getting more and more important too. Customers don't go anywhere without their mobile phone.

Powerful app features enrich the omnichannel shopping experience by connecting online and offline touchpoints. For example, a mobile barcode scanner for looking up product details and ordering out of stock products online while being in-store.

Lastly, the importance of customer service as part of the omnichannel experience continues to rise.

IBM shows that AI-powered, automated customer service is the future. This doesn't mean that human service agents aren't needed anymore.

According to IBM, AI and automation will give human agents context to understand who they're talking to. Also, chatbots will play a big role in being in contact with your customers at any time.

In the next few years, social media will take up an even bigger piece of the customer service pie.

Customers expect to reach their go-to brands whenever, wherever. Being reachable for your customers at the channels of their preference is very important for a complete omnichannel experience - even after purchase.

[Success Story]: Steinhoff Uses Headless Architecture to Drive Omnichannel Strategy

Jamie Danby is Head of Business Transformation at Steinhoff UK and responsible for seeing this challenge through.

By comparing where Steinhoff is today to where the company wants to be in the future, he surfaced certain requirements that would make a seamless omnichannel journey possible:

A customized product experience

An empowered team who can complete tasks independently

The ability to drive conversion rate fast

Rapid and agile deployment

By listing out where Steinhoff UK as a company wanted to go, Jamie was able to find the right technology to match his needs - which turned out to be a platform built with a headless architecture. As he puts it, "It wasn't about saying, 'We are going to go headless ' - it was about looking at the requirements and finding the right solutions out there to help us achieve our goals."

He highlighted two use cases in particular:
A Personalized Experience: Quick vs Considered Buying
For different products, a customer looks for a different shopping experience. Jamie makes the distinction most between a low and high price range.

The product defines how the customer will shop and the digital experience should support that. With Steinhoff's current technology, customizing the digital experience per product is timely and expensive. But with the headless architecture, that's all set to change.

Augmented Reality

The second initiative Jamie wants to kick off is to help the customers customize their purchase online and then visualize it.

That includes site visitors having the option to view how a product would look in a certain room in their house, or whether it would go with existing furniture. Bensons and Harveys already have this function on their customer mobile apps but it's not yet integrated with the websites.

When Jamie launches the new website, this feature is high on the list.

Are You Omnichannel-Ready?​

Keeping up with the ever changing world of commerce isn't easy.

Today, more and more brands are exploring the benefits of omnichannel. Shifting from single-channel or multichannel to omnichannel commerce takes a lot of time and effort. But it will all be worth it.

A quick recap of the differences between single-channel, multichannel and omnichannel commerce:

Single-channel commerce sells through one sales channel, for example as a store-only or web-only business

Multichannel commerce operates on multiple channels, both online and offline

Omnichannel commerce connects the dots between all channels, offering customers a seamless experience across all platforms

Is your business ready to be introduced to omnichannel commerce? Ready or not, after reading this blog post you can feel confident to use the O-word..

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What is Omnichannel Commerce? Definition, Benefits and Trends

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Omnichannel. You've probably heard and read this buzzword many times. In your sales meetings, on your favorite marketing blog. Occasionally, you might even drop the word yourself. But when the word is everywhere, it can get confusing what people actually mean by it. In this blog post we'll answer the question 'what is omnichannel?'

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It may well be October, but while the calendar indicates that we're knee-deep in autumn some of us are only just coming to terms with the fact that our spring/summer wardrobes were just a bit of a non-starter this year - thanks, largely, to all those tracksuit bottom moments.

Of course, that doesn't mean the year's been a total sartorial bust. Instead of wiping away our summer-dress-shaped tears, we've decided to stop dwelling and rather focus on the now.

And although we may still be in the depths of a global pandemic with curfews and local lockdowns a very real thing, we've decided that our autumn wardrobes deserve a new lease of life.

The 9 new season fashion trends to get to grips with now that autumn has officially arrived

Are you on board? If you are ready to put aside the tracksuits momentarily, we've got some good news for you. Next season has got some EPIC trends to get involved in.

Let's be totally honest, autumn fashion is always more fun than summer, thanks to the endless styling opportunities available via the simple art of layering. Something that wasn't quite such a viable option during the UK's many unexpected heatwaves this year...

These are next season's 7 major trends according to Zara's brand new autumn collection

This season's most major looks to know about? Rejina Pyo, Christopher Kane and Victoria Beckham all back the 'modern cut-out', while capes were given the seal of approval by Carolina Herrera, JW Anderson and Rodarte.

But if they sound a tad intimidating after several months spent braving little more than a new tie-dye t-shirt (which, after all, you could swap for your plain white one whenever you felt overwhelmed thanks to your wardrobe being a mere 5-foot from your WFH desk...) we've got an easy entry route into the world of AW20 trends, and it's all thanks to the magic of colour.

These four scientific rules state which colours you should *actually* wear together

One of the easiest ways to breathe new life into a look, colour trends require far less courage - or even forethought - than bold new silhouettes or statement accents.

So what are the key colour trends this autumn? Here are the eight that our Fashion Editor encourages you to tap into if you want to give your wardrobe an on-trend twist without having to brave an entirely new aesthetic...

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These are the only 8 colour trends you need to know about for autumn, according to our Fashion Editor

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It may well be October, but while the calendar indicates that we're knee-deep in autumn some of us are only just coming to terms with the fact that our spring/summer wardrobes were just a bit of a non-starter this year - thanks, largely, to all those tracksuit bottom moments.

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A trend board which was put together using garments that have been previously seen and are still thriving.

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This three articles shows how the puff sleeve has evolved from the years 1890s to the 2000s. And how it has become a everyday iconic fashion piece that was once a historic garment in the Victorian and Edwardian era.

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It began in the Renaissance in the 16th century and was particularly popular in the Victorian era.

Puff sleeves are the first ancestor and have evolved into hundreds of patterns. Puff sleeves first appeared in the Renaissance, and the popularity was not stable. But it began to recover during the Victorian era and became popular in the Edwardian era, especially in the 1930s, where the costumes focused on the contour design of the puff sleeves. Lantern sleeves are the earliest super feminine evolution of puff sleeves. They are lined with stiff fabrics. There are two styles that are gathered on the shoulders or gathered on the cuffs.

Anne of Green Gables

Matthew and Maria, who lived on Prince Edward Island, wanted to adopt a boy to help with farming, but the orphanage was mistaken and sent a red-haired girl called Ann. Ann is a naughty child who is full of fantasies but often gets into trouble. The worst thing is that she always has a lot to say. The grim Maria wants to send her back to the orphanage, but as time goes by, Ann becomes an indispensable part of their life. Ann gradually grew into a young girl. She decided to be a writer. Ann taught at school because of livelihood. Ann's playmate Gilbert asked to her for marriage, but Ann refused him because she still had many dreams to pursue...
High Collar Exclusive: Leg-of-mutton Sleeves
Leg-of-mutton sleeves were founded in the 1930s and prevailed in the Edwardian period from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.

The puffed sleeves of the 1930s have a stronger tension and evolved from lantern sleeves to leg-of-mutton sleeves: From the arm to the elbow, the forearm is tightened, named after the shape of the leg of the sheep, and is the hind leg of the sheep. Women in the 1890s were particularly enthusiastic about leg-of-mutton sleeves dresses, and its existence was destined to make women obsess because they could shape a very stylish hourglass type body.

Things that have been fashionable since ancient times have something to do with impracticality. For example, lamb leg sleeves are stuffed with fillers in order to keep the sleeves fluffy, but the sleeves are difficult to move. Some pragmatic fashion critics ridiculed it as "the imbecile sleeves." Gradually, the improved leg-of-mutton sleeves are still used for fashion, such as those often seen in vintage wedding dresses.

The Young Victoria

The movie is short, but the history is long. Queen Victoria is the longest monarch in British history, from 1837 to 1901, and ruled Britain for 63 years. Unprecedented. Compared with other court dramas, the conflict of drama is not good enough, but the scene is naturally magnificent, and the clothing is naturally extremely luxurious. The story is mainly concentrated in the Victorian youth period, before the coronation and after the marriage, several years in which life events are relatively concentrated. Highlighting the rapid emergence of the queen, wreathed in the resentment toward the mother and the love of the husband.
Pagoda Sleeves
Pagoda Sleeves popular in the 1950s to the end of the 19th century, an important element of the new Rococo wind.

The pagoda sleeves are usually three layers of pleated cloth and are sewn on the fitted sleeves inside. The sleeves are upper narrow and lower part wide, folded like a pagoda. The pagoda sleeve is the most influential style for the subsequent sleeve style. The shape is similar to the trumpet sleeves, the ruffle sleeves, the butterfly sleeves and the wide sleeves. It solves the previous flashy shortcomings, which is light and comfortable.

Daniel Deronda

This is an excellent produced Britain drama. It has three episodes and is 210 minutes long each episode. The story tells the emotional entanglement between the three, and the entanglement evolves into an increasingly complex story. The person watching will wonder who Daniel loves, and who is the last choice of Daniel. Exploring him and her in the film, he and her all kinds of love clues. However, it is found that after the emotional growth is complete and the personal beliefs are formed, the sacrifice is not worth mentioning.
Bishop Sleeves
Bishop Sleeves originated in the early 20th century, the classic product of the combination of leg-of-mutton sleeves and puff sleeves.

The bishop sleeves are derived from European Christian costumes. The sleeves are long to the wrist and are raised close to the cuffs and the cuffs are tightened. It is a product derived from puff sleeves and leg-of-mutton sleeves. The loose cuff hem and soft shoulder line make the arm lines not as stiff as before, with an easygoing and lazy temperament.

Cold Mountain

During the American Civil War, the successive battles and the defeat of the Southern Army made the soldier Inman disheartened. In order to see the lover Ada, he left the army and embarked on a long road to return home. In his hometown, in the remote cold mountain town, Ada is also suffering from the suffering and waiting. The death of the father and the departure of the slaves made the life of the pampered Ada unsustainable. With the help of the mountain girl Ruby Thewes, Ada gradually learned to struggle with the rough and sharp life around her, looking forward to the return of Inman. Through the continuous wars, the cold mountain is the only connection between them. Here, even if all the belief paradise in the old days has been shattered, it still allows you to heal and relieve pain.

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It began in the Renaissance in the 16th century and was particularly popular in the Victorian era. Puff sleeves are the first ancestor and have evolved into hundreds of patterns. Puff sleeves first appeared in the Renaissance, and the popularity was not stable.

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Fashion doesn't change overnight.

There's a subtle movement when a new thought is presented. The idea is taken to the full extreme over a period of a few years. Then it seems to be discarded quickly; put on the shelf and forgotten. Another new idea is presented and we start the cycle again.

This path is quite defined by what we see sleeves doing from about 1890 to 1899. This 10-year period took a tightly fitted sleeve and ballooned it to puffs that would be big enough for that afternoon snooze head rest. Then they deflated and promptly become manageable again.

Let's take a gander at how the sleeve changed from the Late Bustle Era through the defining element of the final Victorian decade.
Please note: picture heavy post with lots of fashion plates.

"Oh, I AM grateful," protested Anne. "But I'd be ever so much gratefuller if-if you'd made just one of them with puffed sleeves. Puffed sleeves are so fashionable now. It would give me such a thrill, Marilla, just to wear a dress with puffed sleeves."

"Well, you'll have to do without your thrill. I hadn't any material to waste on puffed sleeves. I think they are ridiculous-looking things anyhow. I prefer the plain, sensible ones."

"But I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself," persisted Anne mournfully."

If anything defines the 1890s it's Anne and Marilla's conversation. Ridiculous over sensible. Excess over budget. Dreams over reality.

The 1890s decade had heavy influence from the early 1830s but more tailored and chic and less frou-frou Romantic. Women were infiltrating men's work and becoming into their own.

"The movement, in which she figured so prominently, produced during most of the decade a style of dress at once aggressive and guarded - pugnacious in a prudish fashion. This spirit was grafted on to modes alleged to be 'Early Victorian.' The huge sleeves of 1830, deprived of their romantic effusion, became in the '90s side-arms defending the female who marched between them." Chapter X, English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century by C. Willett Cunnington

As we get into the yummy fashion plates of the era let's cover a few basics in sleeves.

In general, gigot and leg o' mutton sleeve were the common cut of sleeves. They were set high onto the shoulder (one reason to help support the shape staying up) and most often mounted to a fitted lining. Fabric could be cut on the grain or cross, gathered or pleated into the armhole, be tight along the forearm, and could be accented in a long or short cuff.

In the early years, sleeves were often cut in two fabrics - one for the puff and one for lower part on the forearm. The "Italian Sleeve" presented a full puff above the shoulder then tight down the length of the arm. A double sleeve of a loose cut upper portion (think bishop sleeve) that tightened at the elbow and over a long tight sleeve to the wrist. Cuffs were very wide.

As we move forward, the larger leg o' mutton shape was cut with one seam along the inner arm and the fullness pleated (knife or box) or gathered into the armhole to create width at the shoulders but not height. The purpose was to make the waist look small. (See? All an illusion.)

1892 saw a widening of the shoulder line with sleeves getting larger and pelerine collars added such as seen in the late 1820s. Armhole seams sat on the shoulder - not dropped at all. And we see lots of V-shaped inserts on the outer part of the sleeve.

The mid-90s years saw the explosion of the sleeve shape. (Are we at ridiculous yet??).

The influence from the early 1830s was noticeable. The large puff was allowed to fall more loosely and more fullness was seen at the elbow. Fashion dictated that the sleeves were to be "pulled out and not up." Variations of the Garibaldi and bishop sleeve styles were adapted.

"Everyone may wear garments of any period or none provided they have big sleeves and revers of frills on their bodices." Section on 1893, English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century.

In 1894 the fashion changed but it did not progress. The styles looked about the same as what 1893 produced. The gigot sleeves were still hugely puffed, and the silhouette defined to indicate a tiny waist.

Double puffs and immense bishop sleeves were seen too. The sleeves oftentimes were cut from the skirt fabric. And not just cut huge, the sleeves were often trimmed with ribbons, laces, could include pleating and tucks or gathered into design seams within the sleeve puff, and worn with or without cuffs.

Somehow the sleeves became even larger in 1895. They were stuffed with down, stiffened muslin or small steels. (Take a look at these 1890s sleeve supports and these.) "Monstrous" was the description.

Sleeves still seen in double puffs, or brought in at the elbow, or a wide bishop shape down to the wrist. Oversleeves, tucks and bands all present on the large puffs. Epaulettes of lace and frills frequently topped our enormous gigot sleeve.

In 1896 the size of the upper puff was shrinking (thank goodness!); the bottom of the pouf above the elbow was starting to be pulled into the arm and retreating toward the shoulder.

The sleeve was collapsing and fast!

Almost like the elbow was tired of being hidden and overpowered so it forced down the puff above it which reduced the cut width as well. They became close fitting with smaller shoulder puffs which could be cut in contrast fabric on the straight or cross. The appearance was to produce length rather than width now.

Fluffy and frilly and a new change of style appeared in 1897. Girly-ness and femininity was back! The shrunken sleeves reduced the top-heavy look. It was a much smaller puff, single or double over a close fitting sleeve. The puff itself was trimmed or tucked or ruched. Epaulettes were still popular.

By the time 1898 rolled around it was a period of refining the new sleeve styles introduced in the previous year. They are still tight fitting with small single or double puffs at the shoulders. But even then, the puffs were diminishing still.

As we finish out our research of shifting sleeve shapes, we can take note of the well-reduced shoulder puff - quite small but still defined in some bodices - to merely a straight, tight-fitting sleeve from shoulder to wrist. In many instances the sleeves fall over the hand.

The focus has moved off the sleeves and to the hips now. Gone are Anne's puffiest of puffed sleeves.

Although the sleeve was a defining garment feature in the 1890s it is surprising to see how quickly it ballooned from 1889 to 1893 (that's only four years) then deflated just as fast down to a small puff by 1897.

The more I study this fabulous costume decade the more I find nuances that intrigue and delight. My favorite year is 1898 - I ADORE the fashions then as the Victorian Era was changing and making way for the new Edwardian Era. For more research and studying antique garments too visit my Pinterest board for the 1890s decade.
Do you research 1890s fashion? Have you made and worn these puffed sleeve styles Anne would be delighted over?

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Feminine and empowering, puff sleeves are back in style. Here's everything you need to know about this fabulous trend.

Puff sleeves are a style of sleeves used to decorate tops and dresses. The purpose of puff sleeves is to allow one to appear more dramatic. Puff sleeves are made by gathering material at the shoulder and or below the shower. In some cases, this form of embellishment is also referred to as balloon sleeves. Today, the term puff sleeves is used almost interchangeably to describe any type of sleeves that are wide at the shoulder.

The syle first appeared during the Renaissance era. At the time, both wealthy (and powerful) men and women wore clothing with exaggerated sleeves as a fashion statement.

Wedding of Anne de Joyeuse with Marguerite de Vaudémont,1581

However, puff sleeves became popularized during the Edwardian era as a trompe l'oeil (optical illusion) device for women to appear slender at the waist achieving an hourglass figure. A variation of this style also emerged called the Gigot sleeves (French for sheep's hindleg) in which the sleeves appear wider from the shoulder to the elbow but would narrow down from the elbow to the wrist.

In the modern era, the popularity of puffy sleeves rose again during three particular decades: the 1930's, the 1980's, and 2019.

Iconic looks from the 1930's.

Ethel Meran Legg Portrait, circa 1930.

Dynasty TV Series, circa 1980's

Princess Diana Wedding Gown, circa 1981.

Fashion runway, circa 2019

Today, puffy sleeves are attributed to being feminine and whimsical. Depending on the color and material, puffy sleeves can also be regarded as romantic or empowering. Here are four ways you can wear puff sleeves.

Alessandra rich black blouse available at Avenue 32, black leather mini-skirt available at Wolf & Badger, CLAUDIA thigh highs by VienneMilano.

Multicoloured silk floral dress by Joseph, black straw floppy hat by Horisaki Design & Handel, Black tights by VienneMilano.

Black floral mini-skirt by Dorothy Perkins, white blouse available from Farfetch, CLAUDIA matte stockings by VienneMilano.

Purple mini bag available from SSENSE, floral gown by Rosie Assoulin, violet thigh highs by VienneMilano.

Pinafore dress by Comme des Garcons, Georgia black bag by Chloé, black matte tights by VienneMilano.

Given that this type of accent tend to look dramatic and playful, we suggest puffy sleeves are acceptable for parties, weekends with friends, and even weddings.

One fabulous way to complete your dramatic look is by wearing stockings. We recommend CLAUDIA matte and ISABELLA sheer thigh highs.

Stockings can help elevate your ensemble commanding the attention which you deserve. Shop VienneMilano.com today - get $10 off with voucher code ILOVEMYLEGS

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Puffed Sleeves

Puffed sleeves (and later puff-ball skirts) are - as the name implies - a decadent 'puff' of fabric. Think of Renaissance Kings and Queens with their big sleeves, or Lacroix's skirts from the 1980s. The shape for a sleeve is gathered at the top and bottom, but full in between, allowing it to puff up and create fullness.

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Puffed Sleeves | Fashion A-Z | BoF Education | The Business of Fashion | #BoFEducation

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An enthusiastic fashion student with 11 GCSE passes and a determine to pursue a career in the fashion industry. Completed a Level 3 Extended Diploma in Fashion Retail at the Fashion Retail Academy at grade Merit. Currently working towards a Level 4 Diploma in Fashion Buying at the Fashion Retail Academy. Completed an 3-week internship in the buying and marketing/social department of a UK Fashion retailer, Warehouse where a high level of professional experience was gained. This has also been obtained at my current profession as a sales associate and junior stylist at The Dressing Room Boutique in St Albans. I'm able to balance multiple competing priorities, having worked part-time for three years whilst still achieving strict deadlines for submission of assignments. Aiming to secure a place on a Level 4 course for Fashion Buying, which will provide wide industry knowledge and exposure, and opportunities for progression whilst leading me on my way to my chosen career path.

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Lauren May Cowcher - Sales Attendant / junior stylist - THE DRESSING ROOM BOUTIQUE LTD | LinkedIn

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LUXE ATTIRE - TEAMWORK Lauren and Darci

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This is a critical path showing the journey of an order of jeans coming from Turkey. This has helped me doing my critical path for my sourcing strategy for Project 3.

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I enjoyed getting the results of the personality test and was accurate and also gave a good insight into myself.

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Your job description is the first touchpoint between your company and your new hire. With millions of people searching for jobs on Indeed each month, a great job description can help you attract the most qualified candidates to your open position. To get you started, here are some tips for creating an effective job description.

Buyer job title

A great job title typically includes a general term, level of experience and any special requirements. The general term will optimise your job title to show up in a general search for jobs of the same nature. The level of experience will help you attract the most qualified applicants by outlining the amount of responsibility and prior knowledge required. And if your position is specialised, consider including the specialisation in the job title as well. But avoid using internal titles, abbreviations or acronyms to make sure people understand what your job posting is before clicking.

Buyer job summary

A great job description starts with a compelling summary of the position and its role within your company. Your summary should provide an overview of your company and expectations for the position. Outline the types of activities and responsibilities required for the job so jobseekers can determine if they are qualified, or if the job is a good fit.

Example of a Buyer job summary

Our firm is searching for an experienced Buyer who will be able to process purchasing requisitions from the managers in the field and turn those requisitions into purchase orders. The Buyer will be responsible for creating purchase order tracking systems, alerting management when orders have been filled and invoices from vendors have been issued, answering vendor questions and providing them with additional order documentation as needed. The successful candidate for this position has experience in the manufacturing industry and an strong understanding of supply chain management concepts.

Buyer responsibilities and duties

The responsibilities and duties section is the most important part of the job description. Here you should outline the functions this position will perform on a regular basis, how the job functions within the organization and who the employee reports to.

Examples of Buyer responsibilities

Develop an efficient and accurate system for monitoring all open purchase orders

Deliver a weekly purchase order report to management that indicates the vendor invoice number for all closed purchase orders

Work with the inventory management team to ensure that all deliveries satisfy the assigned purchase orders and report any back-ordered or missing products

Assist the Supply Chain Manager with maintaining proper inventory levels of materials used on a regular basis

Establish reliable lines of contact with field management team to ensure that all field purchase orders are accurate

Buyer qualifications and skills

Next, outline the required and preferred skills for your position. This may include education, previous job experience, certifications and technical skills. You may also include soft skills and personality traits that you envision for a successful employee. While it may be tempting to include a long list of skills and requirements, including too many could dissuade qualified candidates from applying. Keep your list of qualifications concise, but provide enough detail with relevant keywords and terms.

Examples of Buyer skills

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or a related field required

Strong negotiating skills

Comprehensive understanding of MS Excel, MS Word and industry standard purchase order software platforms

Impeccable attention to detail

Ability to work well with a team

Able to thrive in a high-stress and fast-paced environment

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Your job description is the first touchpoint between your company and your new hire. With millions of people searching for jobs on Indeed each month, a great job description can help you attract the most qualified candidates to your open position. To get you started, here are some tips for creating an effective job description.

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I got 72% on my CV 360 review and didn't reach 90%. I think is because of the layout of my CV is very different and not boring as i wanted to make it more creative.

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