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Fashion Terminology

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Fashion

-Fashion is a particular style that is popular for a large portion of population at a given time; the trend.

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Fashion

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  • Majority of people are buying and wearing.
  • A style may come in or out of fashion but always remains a style

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Apparel

  • Applies to any or all men’s, women’s, and children’s clothing
  • For example: men’s wear

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Garment

  • Any article of apparel- any particular clothing item
  • Examples: dress, suit , coat and etc

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Style

- refers to the characteristics or shape that distinguish one particular item of clothing from another

  • A pair of pants can be- cropped, capris, or bermuda.

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Style

  • Lapels=wide vs. narrow
  • Sleeves and pant legs=tight vs. full
  • Skirt lengths
  • A style may come in or out of fashion but always remains a style

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DIFFERENT SKIRT STYLES

Bias skirt

A line

Pencil skirt

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Style

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  • Certain trendsetters and fashion leaders are said to have style

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Fashion Trend

  • General direction that a silhouette takes
  • This could mean for example wider, narrower, longer or shorter pants
  • What is the fashion trend this season?

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Knock Off

  • Lower-priced copies of garments
  • Produced in great volumes, lower quality materials and construction
  • They are the result of fashion piracy which is the stealing of design ideas or use of a design without the consent of the originator.

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�Tailored Garments

  • Made by first cutting garment pieces, then sewing them together to fit that shape the body

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Draped garments

  • Those that are wrapped or hung on the human body

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Composite garments

  • Made by a combination of tailored and draped methods

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Ready to wear

  • Mass produced in factories and bought at department stores or chain stores

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Avant-garde

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  • Ahead of fashion
  • Daring, too far out to be considered fashion of the times
  • Unconventional
  • Doesn’t appeal to most people, completely disappears after a few years
  • ex. Cut out clothing, bright hair colors, extreme lip color

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Silhouette

  • The shape of the clothing as seen in the distance before you can see the details

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Haute Couture

  • Fine dressmaking or “high Sewing”
  • Very expensive materials, trims
  • Hand sewing
  • One of a kind
  • Designer lines

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Branding

  • Identification by a name, design, or symbol (or combination of them) that identifies a business and its products

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I need 6 volunteers

•Determine where the fashion is on the fashion cycle and place the fashion photo there. Justify your answer

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–Discuss as a class

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Fads and Classics

A look through the years

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Fad

  • a temporary, passing fashion

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Fad

  • Usually extreme styles
  • Bright colors
  • Large accessories

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Fad

  • 50’s fads
  • Capris
  • Full skirts

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Fad

  • 60’s fad

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  • The baby doll look

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Fad

  • 1970’s
    • Bell bottoms

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Fad

  • 1970’s
    • Platform shoes

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Fad

  • 1980’s
    • Leg warmers

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Fad

  • 1980’s
    • Acid wash jeans

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Fad

  • 1980’s
    • Guess jeans

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Fad

  • 1990’s
    • Butterfly clips

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Fad

  • 1990’s
  • Snap bracelets
  • Jelly shoes

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FASHION TERMS-CLASSIC

  • Styles that stay in fashion for a long time
  • Usually simpler and less innovative
  • Blazer jacket is an example

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Classic

  • A classic is a traditional style that stays in fashion for a very long time.

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Classic

  • Simple in design
  • Never go out of fashion
  • May experience slight alterations through the years, but basically the same

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Classic

    • Little black dress

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Pea Coat

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Jeans

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Retro

  • “Everything old is new again”
  • Brings back styles from the past

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