Each time the porter was about to leave the room, Taub took a half step toward him and the porter did the same in return, a smile appearing on the porter's face the kind of polite, encouraging smile that usually occurs when a tip is in the offing.
I'm more of a porter guy but go for it – what, you think stout and porter are the same?
Snowball sampling was subsequently used to recruit 162 female barworkers and 194 male mountain porters of the same age range in the same area.
"By mixing Haute Couture pieces with prêt-à-porter in the same space, I don't want to suggest comparison but to express the harmony between them," Motwary said when asked what he's aiming for.
In "De-Lovely," the new MGM biopic starring Kevin Kline as Cole Porter, the same song is sung -- whispered, really -- in the opening scene by a balding, dying Porter, at his piano in a wheelchair after the amputation of his right leg, alone in his Waldorf-Astoria apartment after the death of his wife of more than 35 years.
"Net-a-porter has all the same values as an amazing boutique, and with fantastic service.
Zara, Asos and Net-a-Porter – and all for the same reason: simplicity and functionality.
The average order value on Net-a- porter is £500, with pieces shipping the same day in Net-a-porter vans driven by a fleet of men hired in part for their manners.
The Waldorf sent the car every Monday to pick up the Porters' laundry, and returned it the same way every Thursday.
And while Dec. 17 is the last day that most online retailers will offer free shipping in time for Christmas, Walmart, the luxury clothing seller Net-a-Porter and others will deliver the same day.
The trekking industry that has grown up in the wake of mountaineering expeditions is also full of horror stories of porters from ethnic groups without the same profile as Sherpas who are simply abandoned when they get sick and die unrecorded by the media, their plight a matter of ignorance among their foreign employers.
