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Fashion Terminology

Fashion Terminology. Fashion Terms. Clothing: body covering; any tangible or material object connected to the human body; all items of apparel and adornment used to cover and decorate the body

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Fashion Terminology

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  1. Fashion Terminology

  2. Fashion Terms • Clothing: body covering; any tangible or material object connected to the human body; all items of apparel and adornment used to cover and decorate the body • Appearance: includes physical attributes. Total composite image created not only by clothing, but also by the human body and any modifications to the body that are visual • Appearance management: decisions and acts related to one’s personal appearance

  3. Dress: to cover or decorate the body; act of altering or adding to appearance • Adornment: to make attractive or to lend to beauty • Body modification: to change the appearance of the body in some way • Fashion follower: one who accepts the innovation of fashion leaders and by doing so make the styles acceptable to the masses

  4. Fashion innovator (leader): one who creates new fashions by departing from socially accepted clothing norms • Fashion laggers: those who are last to adopt trends • Fads: passing fashions; usually short lived. Examples?? • Style: identified by distinct features that create an overall appearance. Examples?

  5. Fashion: the accepted, prevailing style of any given time (an ongoing process that changes over time in demand for something new) • Design: a particular, unique version of a style • Avant-garde: the most daring and wild designs • Classic style: one that continues to be poplar over an extended period of time • Ford: style or design that is produced at the same time by many different manufacturers at many different prices

  6. Apparel: any or all men’s, women’s, and children’s clothing • Garment: any particular article of apparel • Garment parts: components that make up a garment (sleeves, collar, waistband, etc.) • Silhouette: shape of a clothing style • Fashion trend: the direction fashion is moving • High fashion (high style, haute couture): items that are the very latest or newest fashions (top quality , fine workmanship, beautiful fabrics)

  7. What are some current fashion trends that you are seeing?

  8. Fashion trends 2017 • https://www.google.com/amp/www.seventeen.com/fashion/gmp2527/back-to-school-outfit-ideas/ • https://www.google.com/amp/www.teenvogue.com/gallery/best-back-to-school-outfits/amp • https://www.google.com/amp/www.bestproducts.com/fashion/gmp2866/cute-back-to-school-outfits-clothes/

  9. Fall trends 2017 • Embriodary • Patchwork denim • Massive sleeves • Neons • Overalls • Animal prints • 70’s styles • Mixed prints • Plaid • What else?? >>>>>

  10. Trend Cycle

  11. Craze: similar to fad, but contains a display of emotion or crowd excitement with it • Wardrobe: all of the apparel a person owns • Accessories: articles added to complete or enhance your outfits • Back fullness silhouette: A recurring style with extra fullness at the back only • Bell silhouette: a recurring style with fullness at the bottom • Tubular silhouette: a style that is slim and straight from top to bottom

  12. Couturier: a designer who creates original, individually-designed high fashions and usually owns the fashion house • Custom-designed: apparel created specifically for a particular person with special fit, design, and fabric • Custom-made: apparel made for the person who has ordered it, usually after seeing a sample garment, sketch, or picture • Fashion piracy: the stealing of design ideas, or the use of a design without the consent of the originator

  13. Irregulars: articles of merchandise with slight imperfections that are sold to consumers at reduced prices. • Knock-offs: copies of other, usually higher-priced, garments • Overruns: extra first-quality items produced by a manufacturer but not ordered by retailers • Price markets: market categories based on retail selling prices of merchandise • Retail: the selling of merchandise directly to consumers • Seconds: items that are soiled or have noticeable flaws and must therefore be priced lower than perfect goods • Wholesale: the selling of goods in large lots to retailers

  14. Clothing Construction Terms • Fit: how tight or loose a garment in on the person who is wearing it • Fitted garment: shaped to follow the lines of the body • Seams: lines of stitches that join two garment pieces together • Darts: short, tapered, stitched areas that enable the garment to fit the figure • Bodice: area above the waist

  15. Draped garments: those that are wrapped or hung on the human body • Tailored garments: garment pieces are first cut then sewn together to fit the shape of the body • Composite garments: made by a combination of the tailored and draped methods • Ready-to-wear garments: those that are mass-produced in factories

  16. Retro • Culturally outdated • aged style

  17. Fashion Cycle • The introduction, Rise, Culmination, Decline, and Obsolescence of a given style over a period of time. • Introduction: the beginning of a new style, trend • Rise: gain in popularity and familiarity • Culmination: the highest point or peak of the trend • Decline: the end of a style or trend

  18. Recurring cycle in skirt lengths

  19. Trend Cycle

  20. Fit • The right size or shape for

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