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
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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