CLOTHING terms

Fashion

A style of clothing that a specific group of people accept and wear at a given time and place.

Style/Fashion style

The specific characteristic that makes one product or item different from another product of the same type.

Silhouette

The outline of your body or a garment that can be seen from a distance, even before noticing the detail of the style.

Classic styles

Styles that are continually accepted because they are timeless and tasteful.

Fads

A fashion with a very short lifecycle, which quickly becomes popular and then disappears.

Fashion/standard trends

The directions in which fashion moves, where trends start, grow, evolve, and decline gradually.

Retrospective fashion

Clothes that imitate the style of the previous era, often looking to the past for inspiration.

Contemporary fashion

The style that many people accept and wear, manufactured in larger quantities and sold at low prices.

Haute couture/high fashion

New, unique, and exclusive styles created by fashion designers that are expensive.