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Bespoke tailoring
Bespoke tailoring: garments made from a pattern drafted from scratch for one customer, with multiple fittings; distinct from made-to-measure, which adjusts an existing pattern; centered historically on Savile Row.
Bess Myerson
Bess Myerson (1924–2014), Miss America 1945 and Miss New York City, was the first and only Jewish Miss America and first scholarship winner; later a game-show panelist and New York City consumer and cultural affairs commissioner.
Bestseller (company)
Bestseller A/S is a Danish, family-owned fashion company founded in 1975 and headquartered in Brande, Denmark. It sells clothing through more than 20 brands, including JACK & JONES, VERO MODA, ONLY, and NAME IT.
Betel nut chewing
Betel nut chewing: chewing areca nut (betel quid, with betel leaf and lime, often tobacco) by about 600 million people in Asia and the Pacific; areca nut is an IARC Group 1 carcinogen causing oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal cancer.
Betsey Johnson
Betsey Johnson (born 1942) is the American designer of the eponymous "pretty and punk" label, founded with Chantal Bacon in 1978, known for runway cartwheels, leopard prints, and the 2026 Paris Hilton collection.
Bettie Page
Bettie Mae Page (1923–2008), American pin-up model known as the Queen of Pinups, active 1950–1957; Playboy January 1955 centerfold, Irving Klaw bondage films, Kefauver hearings, 1980s revival.
Betty Brosmer
Betty Brosmer (Betty Weider, born Betty Chloe Brosemer) was the highest-paid American pin-up model of the 1950s, famed for her 'impossible waist' (39-19-36), 200+ magazine covers, and later career as a Weider fitness author and icon after marrying Joe Weider in 1961.
Betty Crocker
Betty Crocker is a fictional brand persona and baking brand of General Mills, created in 1921 by Washburn Crosby to answer consumer baking letters; known for cake mixes, the 1950 Picture Cook Book, radio and TV personas, and BettyCrocker.com.
Beurre blanc
Beurre blanc (beurre nantais) is a warm French emulsified butter sauce from the Loire Valley near Nantes: cold butter whisked into a white wine, vinegar, and shallot reduction, without egg yolks, served hot over fish.
Beverage industry
The beverage industry produces and sells non-alcoholic drinks (soft drinks, water, energy drinks) and alcohol (beer, wine, spirits). Distinguished by high concentration: Coca-Cola and PepsiCo control 75% of the world beverage market; US retail sales near $295 billion in 2025.
Beverly Johnson
Beverly Johnson (born 1952) is an American model, author, and entrepreneur, the first Black model on the cover of American Vogue (August 1974, Francesco Scavullo photo), with 500+ covers, a bestselling 2015 memoir, and an off-Broadway play.
Beyblade (ベイブレード)
Beyblade (ベイブレード) is Takara Tomy's customizable battling-top toy line launched July 1999 as 'Next Generation Beigoma Battle Beyblade.' Four generations (Bakuten Shoot, Metal Fight, Burst, X), over 560 million units shipped, Hasbro distributing in the West since 2002.
Beyond Meat
Beyond Meat, Inc. is an American plant-based protein company founded in 2009 by Ethan Brown in El Segundo, California, known for the Beyond Burger and rebranded as Beyond in 2026.
Bhagabata Tungi
A Bhagabata Tungi, also called a Bhagabata Ghara, is a village community house in Odisha where Jagannath Das's Odia Bhagabata is worshipped and read aloud.
Bhakta Pundalik
Bhakta Pundalik (भक्त पुंडलिक) is a devotee of the god Vitthal at Pandharpur, revered in the Varkari tradition as the foremost devotee, honored for his service to his parents.
Bhang (भांग)
Bhang (भांग, bhāṅg) is an edible cannabis preparation of ground leaves and flowers, drunk in India in drinks like thandai during Holi and Maha Shivaratri.
Bhel puri
Bhel puri (भेल पूरी), or bhelpuri, is a Mumbai chaat of puffed rice, sev, vegetables, and tamarind, green, and garlic chutneys, with Gujarati-linked origins, wet (geeli) and dry (sukha) variants, and the Kolkata relative jhal muri.
Bhutanese textiles
Bhutanese textiles are the handwoven fabrics of Bhutan, above all the gho and kira national dress, forming one of the most developed weaving traditions in the Himalayas.
Bianca Gascoigne
Bianca Jade Gascoigne (born 1986) is a British glamour model and television personality, the adopted daughter of footballer Paul Gascoigne, known for winning Celebrity Love Island and finishing sixth on Celebrity Big Brother in 2017.
Biangbiang noodles
Biangbiang noodles (𰻝𰻝面, biángbiáng miàn, kudai mian, belt noodles) are belt-wide hand-pulled wheat noodles from Shaanxi's Guanzhong region, named for the slapping sound of the dough and the untypable ~58-stroke biang character, classically served oil-splashed (youpo).
Biba
Biba was a London fashion label and retailer founded in 1963 by designer Barbara Hulanicki and Stephen Fitz-Simon, growing from mail order into Big Biba, a seven-storey Kensington High Street department store that closed in 1975.
Bibibop Asian Grill
Bibibop Asian Grill is an American fast-casual chain serving customizable Korean-inspired rice bowls from a fully gluten-free kitchen, founded by Charley Shin in Columbus, Ohio, in 2013.
Bibimbap (비빔밥)
Bibimbap (비빔밥), also called goldongban, is a Korean mixed-rice dish of rice, seasoned vegetables, meat, egg, gochujang, and sesame oil; first recorded around 1590, with its recipe in the late 19th-century Siuijeonseo and famous Jeonju and Jinju styles.
Biblical clothing
Biblical clothing: dress of ancient Israel and the biblical eastern Mediterranean, from wool and linen tunics, himation cloaks, and nailless sandals to the Exodus 28 priestly vestments, known from texts, Dura-Europos art, and Dead Sea cave textile finds.
Bicycle Day (psychedelic holiday)
Bicycle Day, April 19, commemorates Albert Hofmann's first intentional LSD trip on April 19, 1943, and his bicycle ride home through Basel; founded 1985 by Thomas B. Roberts, distinct from UN World Bicycle Day.
Bidriware
Bidriware is a metal handicraft from Bidar, Karnataka, India, where silver wire is inlaid into a blackened zinc-copper alloy, leaving bright silver designs on black.
Big Arch (hamburger)
Big Arch is McDonald's largest hamburger: two quarter-pound beef patties, three slices of white cheddar, crispy onions, pickles, lettuce, and Big Arch sauce. First launched in Portugal in July 2024, permanent in the UK from January 2026, US launch March 3, 2026.
Big Baller Brand
Big Baller Brand (BBB) is an apparel and footwear company founded in 2016 by LaVar and Tina Ball in Chino Hills, California, known for Lonzo Ball's $495 ZO2 signature shoe, its NCAA-rules controversy, and later legal disputes with co-founder Gregory Alan Foster.
Big Beautiful Woman
BBW (Big Beautiful Woman) is a positive term for a plus-size woman, coined in 1979 by Carole Shaw with BBW Magazine; the male counterpart is BHM, and usage spans dating, fashion, and adult contexts.
Big Boy Restaurants
Big Boy Restaurants is an American family-dining chain founded in 1936 by Bob Wian in Glendale, California, known for the original double-decker Big Boy burger and mascot; now headquartered in Warren, Michigan, with independent operators Frisch's Big Boy and Big Boy Japan.